Samatha

Samatha - in Buddhism, a quality of mind cultivated via specific meditation techniques. Article “Samatha” in Dutch Wikipedia has 24.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 6 references and 1 sections.

This article has the best quality in Spanish Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is Russian.

Since the creation of article “Samatha”, its content was written by 30 registered users of Dutch Wikipedia and edited by 293 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 15 times in Dutch Wikipedia and cited 3898 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Dutch): #4771 in October 2005
• Global: #72208 in December 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Dutch): #70200 in February 2025
• Global: #185781 in November 2016

There are 18 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, 2026 (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	Spanish (es) Samatha		52.8141
2	Hungarian (hu) Szamatha		46.665
3	Chinese (zh) 止 (佛教)		36.5006
4	Japanese (ja) サマタ瞑想		27.932
5	Russian (ru) Шаматха		27.5413
6	Bulgarian (bg) Шамата		26.0218
7	Dutch (nl) Samatha		24.1433
8	Polish (pl) Śamatha		20.6144
9	French (fr) Samatha		20.5976
10	Portuguese (pt) Samatha		15.791

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Samatha" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Thai (th) สมถะ		289 421
2	Russian (ru) Шаматха		171 536
3	Japanese (ja) サマタ瞑想		131 271
4	French (fr) Samatha		117 678
5	Chinese (zh) 止 (佛教)		109 530
6	German (de) Shamatha		106 551
7	Polish (pl) Śamatha		92 320
8	Italian (it) Śamatha		73 924
9	Korean (ko) 사마타		40 878
10	Spanish (es) Samatha		38 657

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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 "Samatha" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Russian (ru) Шаматха		497
2	Chinese (zh) 止 (佛教)		351
3	Japanese (ja) サマタ瞑想		287
4	French (fr) Samatha		286
5	German (de) Shamatha		225
6	Thai (th) สมถะ		220
7	Korean (ko) 사마타		203
8	Spanish (es) Samatha		169
9	Italian (it) Śamatha		133
10	Polish (pl) Śamatha		96

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Shamatha		44
2	French (fr) Samatha		43
3	Italian (it) Śamatha		31
4	Dutch (nl) Samatha		30
5	Japanese (ja) サマタ瞑想		28
6	Russian (ru) Шаматха		20
7	Thai (th) สมถะ		17
8	Polish (pl) Śamatha		16
9	Chinese (zh) 止 (佛教)		14
10	Czech (cs) Samathá		12

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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 "Samatha" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Italian (it) Śamatha		1
2	Bulgarian (bg) Шамата		0
3	Czech (cs) Samathá		0
4	German (de) Shamatha		0
5	Spanish (es) Samatha		0
6	French (fr) Samatha		0
7	Hindi (hi) शमथ		0
8	Hungarian (hu) Szamatha		0
9	Japanese (ja) サマタ瞑想		0
10	Korean (ko) 사마타		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 "Samatha" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) サマタ瞑想		2 092
2	Hungarian (hu) Szamatha		624
3	French (fr) Samatha		353
4	Chinese (zh) 止 (佛教)		343
5	Polish (pl) Śamatha		118
6	Hindi (hi) शमथ		93
7	Thai (th) สมถะ		66
8	Russian (ru) Шаматха		64
9	Korean (ko) 사마타		30
10	Spanish (es) Samatha		27

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#	Language	Value
bg	Bulgarian Шамата
cs	Czech Samathá
de	German Shamatha
es	Spanish Samatha
fr	French Samatha
hi	Hindi शमथ
hu	Hungarian Szamatha
it	Italian Śamatha
ja	Japanese サマタ瞑想
ko	Korean 사마타
lt	Lithuanian Šamatha
nl	Dutch Samatha
pl	Polish Śamatha
pt	Portuguese Samatha
ru	Russian Шаматха
th	Thai สมถะ
uk	Ukrainian Шаматха
zh	Chinese 止 (佛教)

Best Rank

Dutch: #70200 02.2025

Global: #185781 11.2016

Best Rank

Dutch: #4771 10.2005

Global: #72208 12.2008

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