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" (song), a 2002 single by Hitomi Shimatani
• "Shanti", 1999 song by Deridian from the album Black & White
• "Shanti", 1996 song by the Romanian rock band Bethleem, from the self-titled album
• Shanti (Hitomi Shimatani album), 2002
• Shanti (Aiko Kitahara album), 2007
• "Shanti / Ashtangi" (song), a 1998 song by Madonna from the album Ray of Light
• “Shanti Shanti Shanti”, 2019 song by Babymetal from the album Metal Galaxy
• Ferry Corsten's song from the album Twice in a Blue Moon, 2008
• Banco de Gaia's piece from the album Maya
• Béla Fleck/Jeff Coffin composition from the 1998 album Left of Cool
• "Om Shanti" by Alice Coltrane released in Divine Songs album from 1987
• "Shanti People" - Music band that performs Vedic Mantras to EDM.

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
• Children of Men, a 2006 film where the phrase is used repeatedly, and is displayed onscreen before the ending credits
• In the Disney cartoon The Jungle Book 2 (2003), Mowgli's girlfriend is called Shanti

Other uses

• 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 Mantra, prayers for Peace found in Upanishads, as used in the final line of T.S. Eliot's poem "The Waste Land"
• Shanti Stupa, a Buddhist white-domed stupa (chorten) on a hilltop in Chanspa, Leh district, Ladakh, in the north Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir
• Shanti Theatre, an Indian film theatre

See also

• Shanty (disambiguation)