The Most Famous

PHILOSOPHERS from Indonesia

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This page contains a list of the greatest Indonesian Philosophers. The pantheon dataset contains 1,267 Philosophers, 1 of which were born in Indonesia. This makes Indonesia the birth place of the 70th most number of Philosophers behind Tajikistan, and Jordan.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Indonesian Philosophers of all time. This list of famous Indonesian Philosophers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Dharmakirti (700 - 660)

With an HPI of 57.66, Dharmakirti is the most famous Indonesian Philosopher.  His biography has been translated into 29 different languages on wikipedia.

Dharmakīrti (fl. c. 6th or 7th century; Tibetan: ཆོས་ཀྱི་གྲགས་པ་; Wylie: chos kyi grags pa), was an influential Indian Buddhist philosopher who worked at Nālandā. He was one of the key scholars of epistemology (pramāṇa) in Buddhist philosophy, and is associated with the Yogācāra and Sautrāntika schools. He was also one of the primary theorists of Buddhist atomism. His works influenced the scholars of Mīmāṃsā, Nyaya and Shaivism schools of Hindu philosophy as well as scholars of Jainism.Dharmakīrti's Pramāṇavārttika, his largest and most important work, was very influential in India and Tibet as a central text on pramana ('valid knowledge instruments') and was widely commented on by various Indian and Tibetan scholars. His texts remain part of studies in the monasteries of Tibetan Buddhism.

People

Pantheon has 1 people classified as Indonesian philosophers born between 700 and 700. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Indonesian philosophers include Dharmakirti.

Deceased Indonesian Philosophers

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