PHILOSOPHER

Shantideva

685 - 763

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Shantideva (Sanskrit: Śāntideva; Chinese: 寂天; Tibetan: ཞི་བ་ལྷ།, THL: Zhiwa Lha; Mongolian: Шантидэва гэгээн; Vietnamese: Tịch Thiên) was an 8th-century CE Indian philosopher, Buddhist monk, poet, and scholar at the mahavihara of Nalanda. He was an adherent of the Mādhyamaka philosophy of Nāgārjuna. Abhayadatta Sri also lists Shantideva as one of the eighty-four mahasiddhas and is known as Bhusuku Pa (布苏固巴). Two works of Shantideva are extant, the Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra and the Śikṣāsamuccaya, both of which were written with the intention of being training manuals for one who intends to follow the path of the bodhisattva. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Shantideva is the 464th most popular philosopher (up from 510th in 2019), the 181st most popular biography from India (down from 173rd in 2019) and the 21st most popular Indian Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Shantideva ranks 464 out of 1,267. Before him are Vincent of Beauvais, Franz Rosenzweig, Arnobius, Themistius, Brunetto Latini, and Hegesias of Cyrene. After him are Roger Scruton, Alasdair MacIntyre, Theodorus the Atheist, Ibn al-Rawandi, Zisi, and Maine de Biran.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 685, Shantideva ranks 5. Before him are Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, Pelagius of Asturias, Chlothar IV, and Kul Tigin. After him are Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik, and Theodbert of Bavaria. Among people deceased in 763, Shantideva ranks 1. After him is Jianzhen.

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    Shantideva

    PHILOSOPHER

    685 - 763

    HPI: 67.07

    Rank: 1

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    Jianzhen

    RELIGIOUS FIGURE

    688 - 763

    HPI: 62.47

    Rank: 2

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In India

Among people born in India, Shantideva ranks 181 out of 1,861. Before him are Jyotirao Phule (1827), Lakshmi Mittal (1950), Engelbert Humperdinck (1936), Mata Amritanandamayi (1953), Tukaram (1608), and Nana Sahib (1824). After him are I. I. Chundrigar (1897), Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899), Mahesh Bhatt (1948), Ahmed Deedat (1918), Choudhry Rahmat Ali (1895), and Ajay Devgn (1969).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In India

Among philosophers born in India, Shantideva ranks 21. Before him are Vyasa (-390), Abul A'la Maududi (1903), Ramanuja (1017), Chandrakirti (600), Shah Waliullah Dehlawi (1703), and Jyotirao Phule (1827). After him are Homi K. Bhabha (1949), Madhvacharya (1199), Sivananda Saraswati (1887), Ahmad Sirhindi (1564), Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883), and Dignāga (480).

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