Śāntideva

        

PersonType	Category:Classical Indian Authors
MainNamePhon	Śāntideva
MainNameTib	ཞི་བ་ལྷ་
MainNameWylie	zhi ba lha
MainNameDev	शान्तिदेव
SortName	Shantideva
AltNamesTib	རྒྱལ་སྲས་ཞི་བ་ལྷ་  ·  བྷུ་སུ་ཀུ་
AltNamesWylie	rgyal sras zhi ba lha  ·  Bhusuku
bio	Śāntideva (late 7th to mid-8th century CE) was a Buddhist monk, philosopher, and poet whose reflections on the overall structure of Buddhist moral commitments reach a level of generality and theoretical power that is hard to find elsewhere in Indian thought. His writings were immensely influential in the development of the Tibetan religious tradition. Though Śāntideva repeatedly denied that he had said anything original, his two major works may nevertheless represent the single most significant contribution of the Buddhist tradition to the global enterprise of ethical theory. And some of Śāntideva’s poetic passages exhibit an emotional and rhetorical power that gives them a claim to be included among the greatest achievements of world literature. (Source: The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
YearBirth	late 7th century
YearDeath	mid 8th century
BornIn	India
BDRC	https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=P6161
IsInGyatsa	No
Other wikis	drl:Śāntideva buddhanature:Śāntideva bca:Śāntideva rtz:Śāntideva dnz:Śāntideva dudjom:Śāntideva khyentselineage:Śāntideva lcp:Śāntideva