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Chandrakirti

600 - 650

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Chandrakirti (IAST: Candrakīrti; traditional Chinese: 月稱; c. 600 – c. 650, meaning "glory of the moon" in Sanskrit) or "Chandra" was a Buddhist scholar of the Madhyamaka school and a noted commentator on the works of Nagarjuna (c. 150 – c. 250 CE) and those of his main disciple, Aryadeva. He wrote two influential works on madhyamaka, the Prasannapadā and the Madhyamakāvatāra. Chandrakirti does not seem to have been very influential during the 7th to 10th centuries, and his works were never translated into Chinese. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Chandrakirti has received more than 123,331 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Chandrakirti is the 547th most popular philosopher, the 174th most popular biography from India (down from 154th in 2019) and the 27th most popular Indian Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Chandrakirti ranks 547 out of 1,081. Before him are Sergei Bulgakov, Nicos Poulantzas, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Usman dan Fodio, Arne Næss, and Sivananda Saraswati. After him are Ivan Ilyin, Gianni Vattimo, Eduard Spranger, Bernardino Telesio, Metrodorus of Lampsacus, and Zhou Dunyi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 600, Chandrakirti ranks 28. Before him are Ubayy ibn Ka'b, Abdullah ibn Muhammad, Bayan I, Heraclius the Elder, Ka'b ibn al-Ashraf, and Hudhayfah ibn al-Yaman. After him are Al-Mughira, Gundemar, Chilperic of Aquitaine, John IV of Constantinople, Ceawlin of Wessex, and Dervan. Among people deceased in 650, Chandrakirti ranks 3. Before him are Abdullah ibn Masud and Songtsen Gampo. After him is Birinus.

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In India

Among people born in India, Chandrakirti ranks 174 out of 1,493. Before him are Siraj ud-Daulah (1733), Morarji Desai (1896), Kuvempu (1904), Shah Waliullah Dehlawi (1703), Ram Narayan (1927), and Sivananda Saraswati (1887). After him are Pushyamitra Shunga (-300), Tarabai (1675), A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1896), Andal (800), Guru Arjan (1563), and Kailash Satyarthi (1954).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In India

Among philosophers born in India, Chandrakirti ranks 27. Before him are Madhvacharya (1199), Abul A'la Maududi (1903), Shantideva (685), Ahmad Sirhindi (1564), Shah Waliullah Dehlawi (1703), and Sivananda Saraswati (1887). After him are Narayana Guru (1855), Dignāga (480), Eknath (1533), Thiruvalluvar (350), Hemachandra (1089), and Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897).

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