PHILOSOPHER

Shantideva

685 - 763

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Shantideva (Sanskrit: Śāntideva; Chinese: 寂天; Tibetan: ཞི་བ་ལྷ།, THL: Zhiwa Lha; Mongolian: Шантидэва гэгээн; Vietnamese: Tịch Thiên) was an 8th-century CE Indian philosopher, Buddhist monk, poet, and scholar at the mahavihara of Nalanda. He was an adherent of the Mādhyamaka philosophy of Nāgārjuna. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shantideva has received more than 304,994 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Shantideva is the 510th most popular philosopher (down from 465th in 2019), the 173rd most popular biography from India (down from 144th in 2019) and the 24th most popular Indian Philosopher.

Memorability Metrics

  • 300k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.54

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.32

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Shantideva ranks 510 out of 1,267. Before him are Karl Löwith, Guillaume Budé, Antony Flew, Philo of Larissa, Alasdair MacIntyre, and Nezahualcoyotl. After him are Yuri Lotman, Rodolphus Agricola, Thomas Nagel, Linji Yixuan, Charles Taylor, and Annemarie Schimmel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 685, Shantideva ranks 5. Before him are Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, Pelagius of Asturias, Kul Tigin, and Chlothar IV. After him are Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik, and Theodbert of Bavaria. Among people deceased in 763, Shantideva ranks 1. After him is Jianzhen.

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    Shantideva

    PHILOSOPHER

    685 - 763

    HPI: 59.54

    Rank: 1

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    Jianzhen

    RELIGIOUS FIGURE

    688 - 763

    HPI: 55.59

    Rank: 2

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In India

Among people born in India, Shantideva ranks 173 out of 1,861. Before him are Mamnoon Hussain (1940), Sivananda Saraswati (1887), Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi (1856), Kittur Chennamma (1778), Lala Lajpat Rai (1865), and Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak (1551). After him are Abdul Karim (1863), James Brooke (1803), Kailash Satyarthi (1954), Khaleda Zia (1945), Mahadevi Varma (1907), and Dnyaneshwar (1275).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In India

Among philosophers born in India, Shantideva ranks 24. Before him are Abul A'la Maududi (1903), Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883), Ravidas (1450), Jyotirao Phule (1827), Madhvacharya (1199), and Sivananda Saraswati (1887). After him are Narayana Guru (1855), Shah Waliullah Dehlawi (1703), Thiruvalluvar (350), Dignāga (480), Chandrakirti (600), and Eknath (1533).

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