Ratnākaraśānti

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Ratnākaraśānti



Ratnākaraśānti
रत्नाकरशान्ति, རིན་ཆེན་འབྱུང་གནས་ཞི་བ་
late-10th century - early-11th century
Ratnākaraśānti was an Indian scholar and tantric adept who lived during the late tenth and early eleventh century. The head of the great Indian monastery Vikramaśīla, he was a teacher to Atiśa, Maitrīpā, Śraddhākaravarman, and Drokmi Śākya Yeshe, among others. Forty of his compositions are included in the Tibetan Tengyur. In his esoteric works he sought to explain tantric practice from a Yogācāra interpretation of the Perfection of Wisdom literature.
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Philosophical positions of this person

Other names

  • སློབ་དཔོན་ཤནྟི་པ་ · other names (Tibetan)
  • slob dpon shan+ti pa · other names (Wylie)
  • Śāntipa · other names

Affiliations & relations

  • Vikramaśilā · religious affiliation
  • Maitrīpa · student