Shantideva was an 8th-century CE Indian philosopher, Buddhist monk, poet, and scholar at the mahavihara of Nalanda. He was an adherent of the Mādhyamaka philosophy of Nāgārjuna. Abhayadatta Sri also l
Nāgārjuna was a philosopher and Mahāyāna Buddhist monk from South India, considered the founder of the Madhyamaka school.
Painting of Nāgārjuna (18th century)
A model of the Amaravati Stupa
A Tibetan depiction of Nagarjuna; the snakes are depicted as protectors around Nagarjuna's head and the nagas rising out of the water are offering Buddhist sutras.
Nicholas Roerich "Nagarjuna Conqueror of the Serpent" (1925)