Shantideva

Shantideva was an eighth century CE Indian philosopher, Buddhist monk, poet and scholar at the mahavihara of Nalanda, and an adherent of the Madhyamaka philosophy of Nagarjuna; Abhayadatta Sri also lists him as one of the eighty-four mahasiddhas, where he is known as Bhusuku Pa. Two of his works survive, the Bodhisattvacaryavatara and the Siksasamuccaya, both written as training manuals for one who intends to follow the path of the bodhisattva; the Bodhisattvacaryavatara in particular was the subject of both Indian and Tibetan commentaries in the period it was written and has received extensive attention from academics and lay practitioners in recent years, including a commentary by the 14th Dalai Lama.