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'''Ratnakarashanti''' (Skt. ''Ratnākaraśānti''; Tib. [[རིན་ཆེན་འབྱུང་གནས་ཞི་བ་]], ''rinchen jungné shyiwa'', [[Wyl.]] ''rin chen 'byung gnas zhi ba'', or ''shan+ti pa'') (roughly 970 - possibly after 1042<ref>See Seton's entry in the ''Brill Encyclopedia''.</ref>) was a famous abbot at the great monastic university of [[Vikramashila]] in India who was active in the beginning of the 11th century. Under the name of '''Shantipa''' (Skt. ''Śāntipa''; Tib. ཤན་ཏི་པ་, ''shan ti pa''), he was also one of the [[eighty-four mahasiddhas]], the great realized masters of the [[Vajrayana]] teachings. He was a contemporary and a teacher of [[Atisha]]. | '''Ratnakarashanti''' (Skt. ''Ratnākaraśānti''; Tib. [[རིན་ཆེན་འབྱུང་གནས་ཞི་བ་]], ''rinchen jungné shyiwa'', [[Wyl.]] ''rin chen 'byung gnas zhi ba'', or ''shan+ti pa'') (roughly 970 - possibly after 1042<ref>See Seton's entry in the ''Brill Encyclopedia''.</ref>) was a famous abbot at the great monastic university of [[Vikramashila]] in India who was active in the beginning of the 11th century. Under the name of '''Shantipa''' (Skt. ''Śāntipa''; Tib. ཤན་ཏི་པ་, ''shan ti pa''), he was also one of the [[eighty-four mahasiddhas]], the great realized masters of the [[Vajrayana]] teachings. He was a contemporary and a teacher of [[Atisha]] and [[Abhayakaragupta]]. | ||
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Revision as of 05:41, 31 January 2019
Ratnakarashanti (Skt. Ratnākaraśānti; Tib. རིན་ཆེན་འབྱུང་གནས་ཞི་བ་, rinchen jungné shyiwa, Wyl. rin chen 'byung gnas zhi ba, or shan+ti pa) (roughly 970 - possibly after 1042[1]) was a famous abbot at the great monastic university of Vikramashila in India who was active in the beginning of the 11th century. Under the name of Shantipa (Skt. Śāntipa; Tib. ཤན་ཏི་པ་, shan ti pa), he was also one of the eighty-four mahasiddhas, the great realized masters of the Vajrayana teachings. He was a contemporary and a teacher of Atisha and Abhayakaragupta.
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- ↑ See Seton's entry in the Brill Encyclopedia.