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PHILOSOPHER

Buddhaghosa

401 - 500

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Buddhaghosa was a 5th-century Indian Theravada Buddhist commentator, translator and philosopher. He worked in the Great Monastery (Mahāvihāra) at Anurādhapura, Sri Lanka and saw himself as being part of the Vibhajjavāda school and in the lineage of the Sinhalese Mahāvihāra.His best-known work is the Visuddhimagga ("Path of Purification"), a comprehensive summary of older Sinhala commentaries on Theravada teachings and practices. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Buddhaghosa has received more than 266,123 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Buddhaghosa is the 420th most popular philosopher (up from 520th in 2019), the 126th most popular biography from India (up from 142nd in 2019) and the 19th most popular Indian Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Buddhaghosa ranks 420 out of 1,081Before him are Ernest Gellner, Vincent of Beauvais, Carl Gustav Hempel, Ernesto Laclau, Leszek Kołakowski, and Maine de Biran. After him are Peter Sloterdijk, Chantal Mouffe, Richard Avenarius, Franciscus Patricius, Emmanuel Mounier, and Ge Hong.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 401, Buddhaghosa ranks 4Before him are Theodosius II, Leo I the Thracian, and Aelia Eudocia. After him are Emperor Ankō, Stobaeus, Mamertus, Barsanuphius, Hermias, Hilary of Arles, Nechtan Morbet, and Palladius. Among people deceased in 500, Buddhaghosa ranks 5Before him are Vātsyāyana, Chandragupta II, Nonnus, and Zu Chongzhi. After him are Charaton, Hesychius of Alexandria, Rutilius Claudius Namatianus, Anthemius, Asclepigenia, Faustus of Byzantium, and Aedesia.

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In India

Among people born in India, Buddhaghosa ranks 126 out of 1,493Before him are Sushruta (-620), Bharata Muni (-1000), Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883), Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1918), Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899), and Abdul Qadeer Khan (1936). After him are Mangal Pandey (1827), Vidyapati (1352), Guru Tegh Bahadur (1621), Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak (1551), Dayananda Saraswati (1824), and Prithviraj Chauhan (1159).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In India

Among philosophers born in India, Buddhaghosa ranks 19Before him are Paramahansa Yogananda (1893), Ramana Maharshi (1879), Sri Aurobindo (1872), Ramanuja (1017), Jyotirao Phule (1827), and Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883). After him are Ravidas (1450), Madhvacharya (1199), Abul A'la Maududi (1903), Shantideva (685), Ahmad Sirhindi (1564), and Shah Waliullah Dehlawi (1703).