  Though not explicitly discussing modesty or humility, many Buddhist thinkers defend virtues rooted in a similar kind of indifference. To oppose pride or arrogance (Sanskrit māna), Buddhist thinkers often advocate for a kind of equanimity that involves a kind of indifference to external resentment and approval as it counteracts forms of self-attachment that are thought to produce suffering. See Buddhaghosa’s Path of Purification IX.91, chapter seven of Śāntideva’s Training Anthology, and the discussion in McRae (2013 and 2016, 101ff.).