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PHILOSOPHER

Padmasambhava

717 - 762

Padmasambhava

Padmasambhava ("Born from a Lotus"), also known as Guru Rinpoche (Precious Guru) and the Lotus from Oḍḍiyāna, was a tantric Buddhist Vajra master from medieval India who taught Vajrayana in Tibet (circa 8th – 9th centuries). According to some early Tibetan sources like the Testament of Ba, he came to Tibet in the 8th century and helped construct Samye Monastery, the first Buddhist monastery in Tibet. He is thought to have been born in the Swat Valley in modern-day Pakistan, and to have foreseen the arrival of Ngawang Namgyal, the founder of Bhutan. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Padmasambhava has received more than 1,353,014 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Padmasambhava is the 161st most popular philosopher (up from 172nd in 2019), the 34th most popular biography from India (up from 59th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Indian Philosopher.

Padmasambhava is most famous for the creation of the Tibetan alphabet and the introduction of Buddhism to Tibet.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Padmasambhava ranks 161 out of 1,081. Before him are Ernst Cassirer, Christian Wolff, Adam Weishaupt, Ferdinand Tönnies, Max Stirner, and Mikhail Bakhtin. After him are Cesare Beccaria, Carl Schmitt, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Marshall McLuhan, and Paul Ricœur.

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Padmasambhava
717 - 762
HPI: 69.92
Rank: 161
Cesare Beccaria
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HPI: 69.88
Rank: 162
Carl Schmitt
1888 - 1985
HPI: 69.86
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Friedrich Schleiermacher
1768 - 1834
HPI: 69.85
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Maurice Merleau-Ponty
1908 - 1961
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Marshall McLuhan
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HPI: 69.83
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Paul Ricœur
1913 - 2005
HPI: 69.69
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Contemporaries

Among people born in 717, Padmasambhava ranks 1. Among people deceased in 762, Padmasambhava ranks 2. Before him is Li Bai. After him are Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, Emperor Suzong of Tang, and Vineh of Bulgaria.