Sentient beings (Buddhism)

Sentient being - in Buddhism, being with consciousness, sentience, or in some contexts life itself. Article “Sentient beings (Buddhism)” in English Wikipedia has 24.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 9 references and 3 sections.

This article has the best quality in Japanese Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “Sentient beings (Buddhism)”, its content was written by 43 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 148 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 81 times in English Wikipedia and cited 671 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #74571 in December 2015
• Global: #55815 in September 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #118235 in February 2017
• Global: #160590 in December 2013

There are 9 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Japanese (ja) 衆生		26.8686
2	Thai (th) สัตวโลก		26.6026
3	English (en) Sentient beings (Buddhism)		24.7119
4	Norwegian (no) Sansende vesener		19.7499
5	Chinese (zh) 有情		17.7638
6	Italian (it) Esseri senzienti (buddismo)		16.4775
7	Korean (ko) 중생 (불교)		13.9231
8	Polish (pl) Czujące istoty		0.5334
9	Min Nan (zhminnan) Chiòng-seng		0.4241

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Sentient beings (Buddhism)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sentient beings (Buddhism)		845 658
2	Japanese (ja) 衆生		439 000
3	Chinese (zh) 有情		181 714
4	Italian (it) Esseri senzienti (buddismo)		68 338
5	Polish (pl) Czujące istoty		37 933
6	Thai (th) สัตวโลก		12 082
7	Korean (ko) 중생 (불교)		5 873
8	Norwegian (no) Sansende vesener		566
9	Min Nan (zhminnan) Chiòng-seng		265

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Sentient beings (Buddhism)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sentient beings (Buddhism)		1 425
2	Japanese (ja) 衆生		1 418
3	Chinese (zh) 有情		1 043
4	Italian (it) Esseri senzienti (buddismo)		132
5	Korean (ko) 중생 (불교)		99
6	Thai (th) สัตวโลก		33
7	Polish (pl) Czujące istoty		31
8	Min Nan (zhminnan) Chiòng-seng		8
9	Norwegian (no) Sansende vesener		4

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Sentient beings (Buddhism)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sentient beings (Buddhism)		43
2	Chinese (zh) 有情		34
3	Japanese (ja) 衆生		25
4	Italian (it) Esseri senzienti (buddismo)		19
5	Korean (ko) 중생 (불교)		7
6	Polish (pl) Czujące istoty		7
7	Norwegian (no) Sansende vesener		6
8	Thai (th) สัตวโลก		6
9	Min Nan (zhminnan) Chiòng-seng		1

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Sentient beings (Buddhism)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Chinese (zh) 有情		1
2	English (en) Sentient beings (Buddhism)		0
3	Italian (it) Esseri senzienti (buddismo)		0
4	Japanese (ja) 衆生		0
5	Korean (ko) 중생 (불교)		0
6	Norwegian (no) Sansende vesener		0
7	Polish (pl) Czujące istoty		0
8	Thai (th) สัตวโลก		0
9	Min Nan (zhminnan) Chiòng-seng		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Sentient beings (Buddhism)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Chinese (zh) 有情		246
2	Japanese (ja) 衆生		216
3	Italian (it) Esseri senzienti (buddismo)		83
4	English (en) Sentient beings (Buddhism)		81
5	Korean (ko) 중생 (불교)		16
6	Polish (pl) Czujące istoty		16
7	Thai (th) สัตวโลก		7
8	Norwegian (no) Sansende vesener		3
9	Min Nan (zhminnan) Chiòng-seng		3

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#	Language	Value
en	English Sentient beings (Buddhism)
it	Italian Esseri senzienti (buddismo)
ja	Japanese 衆生
ko	Korean 중생 (불교)
no	Norwegian Sansende vesener
pl	Polish Czujące istoty
th	Thai สัตวโลก
zh	Chinese 有情
zhminnan	Min Nan Chiòng-seng

Best Rank

English: #118235 02.2017

Global: #160590 12.2013

Best Rank

English: #74571 12.2015

Global: #55815 09.2003

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