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RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Śāntarakṣita

725 - 788

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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

Among religious figures, Śāntarakṣita ranks 1,181 out of 2,238Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 725, Śāntarakṣita ranks 2Before him is Grifo.  Among people deceased in 788, Śāntarakṣita ranks 2Before him is Abd al-Rahman I. After him are Mauregatus of Asturias, Adalgis, and Ælfwald I of Northumbria.

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In India

Among people born in India, Śāntarakṣita ranks 196 out of 1,493Before 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).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In India

Among religious figures born in India, Śāntarakṣita ranks 21Before 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).