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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Śāntarakṣita has received more than 141,005 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Śāntarakṣita is the 1,205th most popular religious figure (down from 1,172nd in 2019), the 211th most popular biography from India (down from 193rd in 2019) and the 24th most popular Indian Religious Figure.

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140k
Page Views (PV)
63.50
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
26
Languages Editions (L)
6.13
Effective Languages (L*)
2.45
Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Śāntarakṣita ranks 1,205 out of 3,187. Before him are Rose of Viterbo, Gaudentius of Brescia, Raffaele Riario, Vincent Pallotti, Hudson Taylor, and Stachys the Apostle. After him are Abd al-Rahman al-Awza'i, Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron, Yohanan ben Zakkai, Zita, Pope Theophilus of Alexandria, and Nimatullah Kassab.

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Contemporaries

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.