"Skt.; representative of the Madhyamika school of the Mahayana. Shantideva was a king's son from south India. He flourished in the 7th/8th centuries and was a monk at the monastic university Nalanda. He was the author of two surviving works， the Collection of Rules and the Entering the Path of Enlightenment. The latter is still used in Tibetan Buddhism as a teaching text."