Shanti
Shanti means peace, rest, calmness, tranquility, or bliss.
In Sanskrit
- Inner peace, a state of being mentally and spiritually at peace, with enough knowledge and understanding to keep oneself strong in the face of discord or stress
- Ksanti, one of the paramitas of Buddhism
People
- Shanti Devi (1926–1987), Indian woman at the center of a case of supposed reincarnation
- Shanti Devi (politician) (born 1937), Indian politician
- Shanti Roney (born 1970), Swedish actor
- Shanti Snyder (born 1981), Japanese/English lyricist, singer, songwriter, and music TV host
- Oliver Shanti (born 1948), New Age musician
- Shanti Wintergate, musician/actress/writer
- Shanthi Krishna (born 1960), Tamil and Malayalam movie actress
- Shanthi Lekha or Rita Irene Quyn (1929–2009), Sri Lankan actress
- Santhi Soundarajan or Santhi Soundararajan (born 1981), Indian athlete
- Princess Shanti Singh of Nepal (1940–2001), princess of Nepal and rani of Bajhang
Music
- Shanti (band), an Indian-American group of the early 1970s
- Shanti (Hitomi Shimatani album), 2002
- Shanti (Aiko Kitahara album), 2007
- "Shanti" (song), a 2002 single by Hitomi Shimatani
- "Shanti / Ashtangi" (song), a 1998 song by Madonna from the album Ray of Light
- "Shanti Shanti Shanti", a song by Babymetal from the 2019 album Metal Galaxy
- "Shanti", a song by Ferry Corsten from the 2008 album Twice in a Blue Moon
- "Shanti", a song by Banco de Gaia from the 1994 album Maya
- Béla Fleck/Jeff Coffin composition from the 1998 album Left of Cool
- "Om Shanti" a song by Alice Coltrane from the 1987 album Divine Songs
In the media
- Shanti (TV series), a 1994 Indian television series
- Shanti Shanti Shanti, a 1998 Kannada language film
- Shanti (film), a 2004 Indian film starring Bhavana
- An important term in the 2006 film Children of Men
- A character in the 2003 Disney cartoon The Jungle Book 2 (2003)
Other uses
- Shanti Mantras, prayers for Peace found in Upanishads, as used in the final line of T.S. Eliot's poem "The Waste Land"
- Shanti Project, a group providing support and guidance for people with life-threatening illnesses
- Shanthi Nagar or Shanthi Nagar Colony, one of the major and oldest colonies of Nalgonda, Andhra Pradesh
- Shanthi Sena or 'Sarvodaya Shanthi Sena Sandasaya' (Peace Brigade), a country wide Sri Lankan youth force
- Shanti Stupa, Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, India
- Shanti Theatre, an Indian film theatre
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