RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Śāntarakṣita

725 - 788

Śāntarakṣita

Śāntarakṣita (Sanskrit: शान्तरक्षित; Tibetan: ཞི་བ་འཚོ, Wylie: zhi ba tsho, 725–788), whose name translates into English as "protected by the One who is at peace" was an important and influential Indian Buddhist philosopher, particularly for the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Śāntarakṣita was a philosopher of the Madhyamaka school who studied at Nalanda monastery under Jñānagarbha, and became the founder of Samye, the first Buddhist monastery in Tibet. Śāntarakṣita defended a synthetic philosophy which combined Madhyamaka, Yogācāra and the logico-epistemology of Dharmakirti into a novel Madhyamaka philosophical system. This philosophical approach is known as Yogācāra-Mādhyamika or Yogācāra-Svatantrika-Mādhyamika in Tibetan Buddhism. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Śāntarakṣita is the 1,318th most popular religious figure (down from 1,205th in 2019), the 254th most popular biography from India (down from 211th in 2019) and the 27th most popular Indian Religious Figure.

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Among religious figures, Śāntarakṣita ranks 1,318 out of 3,187. Before him are Gildas, Joseph Freinademetz, Joshua the High Priest, Simeon Stylites the Younger, Mauro Piacenza, and Saint Publius. After him are Augustin Bea, Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei, Mark of Ephesus, Seán Brady, Ignatius Zakka I Iwas, and Bao Xishun.

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Gildas
500 - 570
HPI: 64.43
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Joseph Freinademetz
1852 - 1908
HPI: 64.41
Rank: 1,313
Joshua the High Priest
HPI: 64.41
Rank: 1,314
Simeon Stylites the Younger
521 - 597
HPI: 64.41
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Mauro Piacenza
1944 - Present
HPI: 64.41
Rank: 1,316
Saint Publius
100 - 112
HPI: 64.40
Rank: 1,317
Śāntarakṣita
725 - 788
HPI: 64.39
Rank: 1,318
Augustin Bea
1881 - 1968
HPI: 64.39
Rank: 1,319
Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei
1901 - 2000
HPI: 64.38
Rank: 1,320
Mark of Ephesus
1392 - 1444
HPI: 64.37
Rank: 1,321
Seán Brady
1939 - Present
HPI: 64.37
Rank: 1,322
Ignatius Zakka I Iwas
1931 - 2014
HPI: 64.37
Rank: 1,323
Bao Xishun
1951 - Present
HPI: 64.37
Rank: 1,324

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Among people born in 725, Śāntarakṣita ranks 2. Before him is Grifo. Among people deceased in 788, Śāntarakṣita ranks 2. Before him is Abd al-Rahman I. After him are Mauregatus of Asturias, Adalgis, and Ælfwald I of Northumbria.