Shantideva

Śāntideva
Personal
Born	c. 685 CE
Died	c. 763 CE
Religion	Buddhism
School	Mahāyāna Buddhism Madhyamaka
Education	Nalanda

Shantideva (Sanskrit: Śāntideva; Chinese: 寂天; Tibetan: ཞི་བ་ལྷ།, THL: Zhiwa Lha; Mongolian: Шантидэва гэгээн; Vietnamese: Tịch Thiên) was an 8th-century CE Indian philosopher, Buddhist monk, poet, and scholar at the mahavihara of Nalanda. He was an adherent of the Mādhyamaka philosophy of Nāgārjuna.

He is also considered to be one of the 84 mahasiddhas and is known as Bhusuku Pa (布苏固巴).^[1]