PHILOSOPHER

Buddhapālita

470 - 550

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Buddhapālita (Chinese: 佛護; Tibetan: སངས་རྒྱས་བསྐྱངས་, Wylie: sangs rgyas bskyangs, fl. 5th-6th centuries CE) was an Indian Mahayana Buddhist commentator on the works of Nagarjuna and Aryadeva. His Mūlamadhyamaka-vṛtti is an influential commentary to the Mūlamadhyamakakarikā. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Buddhapālita has received more than 65,576 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Buddhapālita is the 1,178th most popular philosopher (down from 1,031st in 2019).

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  • 66k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.54

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Buddhapālita ranks 1,178 out of 1,267. Before him are Yuval Steinitz, Eino Kaila, Max Black, Bernard Lonergan, Edward Abramowski, and Michael Ruse. After him are Vicente Ferreira da Silva, Leila Ahmed, Hermann Lietz, Iris Marion Young, William Chittick, and Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 470, Buddhapālita ranks 11. Before him are Caesarius of Arles, Medardus, Audofleda, Albinus of Angers, Caradoc, and Finnian of Clonard. After him is Narasimhagupta. Among people deceased in 550, Buddhapālita ranks 6. Before him are Aryabhata, Damascius, Cosmas Indicopleustes, Albinus of Angers, and John Troglita.

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