Shantideva

Shantideva (sometimes Śāntideva; Tib: ཞི་བ་ལྷ། (Shyiwa Lha, Wylie: zhi ba lha); Zh: 寂天) 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... more

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