Shantarakshita

ཞི་བ་འཚོ་
zhi ba 'tsho

Biography

Shantarakshita 'Guardian of Peace.' The Indian pandita and abbot of Vikramashila and of Samye who ordained the first Tibetan monks. He was an incarnation of the bodhisattva Vajrapani and is also known as Khenpo Bodhisattva or Bhikshu Bodhisattva Shantarakshita. He is the founder of philosophical school combining Madhyamaka and Yogachara. This tradition was reestablished and clarified by Mipham Rinpoche in his commentary on the Madhyamaka Lamkara.

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• zhi ba mtsho - Shantarakshita, SA zhi ba 'tsho [JV]
  
• zhi ba 'tsho - Shantarakshita [R] [IW]
  
• zhi ba 'tsho - Shantarakshita [IW]
  
• zhi ba 'tsho - Lobpön Bodhisattva, Shantarakshita, 'Guardian of Peace.' The Indian pandita and abbot of Vikramashila and of Samye who ordained the first Tibetan monks. He was an incarnation of the bodhisattva Vajrapani and is also known as Khenpo Bodhisattva or Bhikshu Bodhisattva Shantarakshita. He is the founder of a philosophical school combining Madhyamika and Yogachara. This tradition was reestablished and clarified by Mipham Rinpoche in his commentary on the Madhyamaka Lamkara [RY]
  
• zhi ba 'tsho - proponent of Svatantrika; Indian pandita, first half of 8th century. Shantarakshita [RY]
  
• zhi ba 'tsho - shantaraksita [JV]
  
• mkhan chen zhi ba 'tsho - {chos rgyal go ma de byi bya ba'i sras po mkhan chen zhi ba 'tsho} a great abbot called santaraksita, son of the religious king Gomadeviya [RY]
  
• mkhan po bo dhi sa tva - khenpo bodhisattva Shantarakshita [bod rgyal khri srong lde btsan gyi dus su bod du phebs pa'i rgya gar gyi mkhan po zhi ba 'tsho [IW]
  
• mkhan po bo dhi sa twa zhi ba 'tsho - Bodhisattva Shantarakshita [IW]
  
• mkhan po bo dhi sa tva zhi ba 'tsho - Bodhisattva Shantarakshita [RY]
  
• mkhan po bo dhi sa tva zhi ba 'tsho - Bodhisattva Shantarakshita. The first abbot to ordain monks in Tibet [RY]
  

Literary Works

• Madhyamakalamkara
  

Main Teachers

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Main Students

• Kamalashila
  

Main Lineages

• Yogachara-Svantantrika Madhyamaka
  

Alternate Names & Spellings

• Khenpo Bodhisattva
  
• Bodhisattva Shantarakshita
• mkhan po bodhi satva zhi ba 'tsho

Other Reference Sources

• Speech of Delight: Mipham's Commentary on Shantarakshita's Ornament of the Middle Way; by Ju Mipham, trans. by Thomas Doctor
• The Adornment of the Middle Way; Shantarakshita's Madhyamakalankara with Commentary by Jamgon Mipham. Translated by Padmakara Translation Group. ISBN 1-59030-241-9
• The Ornament of the Middle Way: A Study of the Madhyamaka Thought of Shantarakshita, by James Blumenthal

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