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Shantideva

c. 685 - c. 763

Shantideva (Sk: Śāntideva; Zh: 寂天; Tib: ཞི་བ་ལྷ། (Shyiwa Lha, Wylie: zhi ba lha); Mn: Шантидэва гэгээн) was an 8th-century Indian Buddhist scholar at Nalanda University and an adherent of the Madhyamaka philosophy of Nagarjuna.
The Chan Ssu Lun of the Chinese Madhyamika school identifies two different individuals given the name "Shantideva": the founder of the Avaivartika Sangha in the 6th century, and a later Shantideva who studied at Nalanda in the 8th century who appears to be the source of the Tibetan biographies. Archaeological discoveries support this thesis. Two Tibetan sources of the life of Shantideva are the historians Butön and Jetsun Tāranātha. Recent scholarship has brought to light a short Sanscrit life of Shantideva in a 14th century Nepalise manuscript. An accessible account that follows the Butön closely can be found in Kunzang Pelden, The Nectar of Manjushri's speech.

Shantideva was born as a Brahmin in the southern country of Saurastra (in modern Gujarat), the son of the King Kalyanavarman and he went by the name Shantivarman.

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  • Cover of: The way of the Bodhisattva: a translation of the Bodhicharyavatara

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  • Cover of: Śikshā-samuccaya: a compendium of Buddhist doctrine

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  • Cover of: The Way of the Bodhisattva: (Bodhicaryavatara), Revised Edition (Shambhala Classics)

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  • Cover of: Bodhicaryavatara.: With the commentary Panjika of Prajñakaramati.  Edited by P.L. Vaidya.

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  • Cover of: path of light: rendered from the Bodhi-charyāvatāra of Sānti-deva, a manual of Mahayana Buddhism

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  • Cover of: The path of light
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  • Cover of: Introduction à la Pratique des Bodhisattva

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  • Cover of: Marche Vers L'Éveil: Bodhicaryâvatâra

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  • Cover of: Camino de Vida Del Bodisatva: El Bodicharyavatara de Shantideva

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  • Cover of: Bodhicaryavatara, Çantideva.

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  • Cover of: Bodhicaryāvatāra ; Bhoṭa-pāṭha, Hindī anuvāda, evaṃ vyākhyā

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  • Cover of: A guide to the Bodhisattva way of life =: Bodhicaryāvatāra

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  • Cover of: Çikshasamuccaya: a compendium of Buddhistic teaching. Compiled by Çantideva, chiefly from earlier Mahayana-sutras.  Edited by C. Bendall.

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  • Cover of: The Mongolian Tanǰur version of the Bodhicaryāvatāra: edited and transcribed, with a word-index and a photo-reproduction of the original text (1748)

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  • Cover of: Śāntideva's Śikṣāsamuccaya-kārikās

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  • Cover of: Śāntidēva's Bodhicharyāvatāra: original Sanskrit text with English translation and exposition based on Prajñākarmati's Pañjikā

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  • Cover of: Siksamuccaya.: Edited by P.L. Vaidya.

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May 3, 2023 Edited by Tom Morris merge authors
May 3, 2023 Edited by Tom Morris Add names in other languages and transcriptions to AKAs
September 30, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ISNI
March 31, 2017 Edited by MARC Bot add VIAF and wikidata ID
April 29, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import