725 - 788
Śāntarakṣita (Sanskrit: शान्तरक्षित; Tibetan: ཞི་བ་འཚོ, Wylie: zhi ba tsho, 725–788), whose name translates into English as "protected by the One who is at peace" was an important and influential Indian Buddhist philosopher, particularly for the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Śāntarakṣita was a philosopher of the Madhyamaka school who studied at Nalanda monastery under Jñānagarbha, and became the founder of Samye, the first Buddhist monastery in Tibet. Śāntarakṣita defended a synthetic philosophy which combined Madhyamaka, Yogācāra and the logico-epistemology of Dharmakirti into a novel Madhyamaka philosophical system. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Śāntarakṣita has received more than 126,451 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Śāntarakṣita is the 1,181st most popular religious figure (down from 1,131st in 2019), the 196th most popular biography from India (down from 174th in 2019) and the 21st most popular Indian Religious Figure.
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Among religious figures, Śāntarakṣita ranks 1,181 out of 2,238. Before him are Abdullah ibn Ja'far, Billy Meier, Theodulf of Orléans, Blandina, Yohanan ben Zakkai, and Charles de Bourbon. After him are Jeremias II of Constantinople, Pope Theophilus of Alexandria, Xenia of Saint Petersburg, Kashyapa, Didacus of Alcalá, and John IV of Constantinople.
650 - 680
HPI: 56.92
Rank: 1,175
1937 - Present
HPI: 56.91
Rank: 1,176
750 - 821
HPI: 56.91
Rank: 1,177
101 - 177
HPI: 56.90
Rank: 1,178
50 - 70
HPI: 56.90
Rank: 1,179
1523 - 1590
HPI: 56.90
Rank: 1,180
725 - 788
HPI: 56.90
Rank: 1,181
1536 - 1595
HPI: 56.88
Rank: 1,182
310 - 412
HPI: 56.88
Rank: 1,183
1719 - 1803
HPI: 56.86
Rank: 1,184
HPI: 56.86
Rank: 1,185
1400 - 1463
HPI: 56.80
Rank: 1,186
600 - 595
HPI: 56.79
Rank: 1,187
Among people born in 725, Śāntarakṣita ranks 2. Before him is Grifo. Among people deceased in 788, Śāntarakṣita ranks 2. Before him is Abd al-Rahman I. After him are Mauregatus of Asturias, Adalgis, and Ælfwald I of Northumbria.
731 - 788
HPI: 71.71
Rank: 1
725 - 788
HPI: 56.90
Rank: 2
800 - 788
HPI: 56.35
Rank: 3
740 - 788
HPI: 52.77
Rank: 4
759 - 788
HPI: 43.50
Rank: 5
Among people born in India, Śāntarakṣita ranks 196 out of 1,493. Before him are Shantanu (null), Periyar E. V. Ramasamy (1879), Nana Sahib (1824), Mata Amritanandamayi (1953), Ajay Devgn (1969), and Eknath (1533). After him are Kalpana Chawla (1961), Dharmendra (1935), Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed (1905), Shilpa Shetty (1975), Ibrahim Lodi (1450), and Amrish Puri (1932).
HPI: 57.08
Rank: 190
1879 - 1973
HPI: 57.07
Rank: 191
1824 - 1859
HPI: 57.04
Rank: 192
1953 - Present
HPI: 56.98
Rank: 193
1969 - Present
HPI: 56.97
Rank: 194
1533 - 1599
HPI: 56.94
Rank: 195
725 - 788
HPI: 56.90
Rank: 196
1961 - 2003
HPI: 56.75
Rank: 197
1935 - Present
HPI: 56.68
Rank: 198
1905 - 1977
HPI: 56.67
Rank: 199
1975 - Present
HPI: 56.65
Rank: 200
1450 - 1526
HPI: 56.62
Rank: 201
1932 - 2005
HPI: 56.61
Rank: 202
Among religious figures born in India, Śāntarakṣita ranks 21. Before him are Ravi Shankar (1956), Jayadeva (1170), Sai Baba of Shirdi (1835), A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1896), Guru Arjan (1563), and Mata Amritanandamayi (1953). After him are Anandi Gopal Joshi (1865), Tilopa (928), George Alencherry (1945), Inayat Khan (1882), Meher Baba (1894), and Guru Angad (1504).
1956 - Present
HPI: 58.84
Rank: 15
1170 - 1245
HPI: 58.55
Rank: 16
1835 - 1918
HPI: 58.18
Rank: 17
1896 - 1977
HPI: 57.58
Rank: 18
1563 - 1606
HPI: 57.48
Rank: 19
1953 - Present
HPI: 56.98
Rank: 20
725 - 788
HPI: 56.90
Rank: 21
1865 - 1887
HPI: 56.26
Rank: 22
928 - 1009
HPI: 55.90
Rank: 23
1945 - Present
HPI: 55.60
Rank: 24
1882 - 1927
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 25
1894 - 1969
HPI: 55.58
Rank: 26
1504 - 1552
HPI: 55.52
Rank: 27