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    Vikramashila (redirect from Vikramaśīla)
    11th-century Indian Buddhist scholar and one of the gatekeepers at Vikramashila Vikramaśīla was a centre for Vajrayana and employed Tantric preceptors. The first...
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    acting head of Vikramaśīla and attracted many offers to teach abroad and this allowed him to secure many donations for the upkeep of Vikramaśīla. Several sources...
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  • contributions include founding major monastic centers such as Somapura, Vikramaśīla, and Odantāpura, along with numerous Buddhist monuments in eastern India...
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    Buddhist philosophy thrived in large monastery complexes such as Nalanda, Vikramasila, and Vallabhi. These institutions became major centers of philosophical...
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    Panorama of the site of Vikramaśīla university (Bhagalpur district, Bihar). Vikramaśīla was an important center for late Indian Yogacara scholars, including...
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  • Magadha and destroyed the Buddhist shrines and institutions at Nalanda, Vikramasila and Odantapuri, which declined the practice of Buddhism in East India...
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  • Panorama of Vikramaśīla monastery, modern day Bhagalpur district, Bihar....
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    p. 150. ISBN 90-04-12556-6. Nalanda, together with the colleges at Vikramasila and Odantapuri, suffered gravely during the conquest of Bihar by the...
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  • Vikramaśīla monastery, in Bhagalpur district, Bihar, where scholars like Haribhadra and Ratnākarāśānti worked....
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  • Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism: 565. Buswell Jr, Robert (2013). "Vikramaśīla". Princeton Dictionary of Buddhis: 970. ISBN 978-0-691-15786-3. Ghosh...
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  • Nalanda University, Buddhist Monasteries and the educational centers of Vikramasila and Odantapuri were sacked and destroyed by Bengal ruler Muhammad bin...
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    Mahāyāna Buddhism. At the same time they established other monasteries at Vikramaśīlā, Somapura, Odantapuri and Jagaddala, which might have created a division...
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    Jñānaśrīmitra was also a skilled poet and a dvāra-paṇḍita (gate-scholar) of Vikramaśīla university. Among his many students who declared themselves to be his...
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    a well known tantric author who was colleague of Ratnākaraśānti at Vikramaśīla Maitrīpāda (c.  1007–1085), a.k.a. Advayavajra, author of several influential...
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  • the Yogachara or Madhyamaka schools of thought. Lopez, Donald (2014). "Vikramaśīla". The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism. "Jñānapāda". Brill's Encyclopedia...
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  • logic, philosophy of mind and epistemology. Ratnakīrti studied at the Vikramaśīla monastery in modern-day Bihar. He was a pupil of Jñānaśrīmitra, and Ratnakīrti...
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    station and his wife. The last book (Visamasila) has Vikramaditya or Vikramasila, son of Mahendraditya, king of Ujjain, for its hero, and describes his...
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  • Pa tshab Lo tsā ba, who studied important Buddhist sutras with him at Vikramaśīla, further spreading his teachings. Four manuscripts of the Kavikāmadhenu...
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    a Bengali Indian Buddhist master who was known as a great teacher at Vikramaśīla and traveled to Tibet in 1037 on the invitation of a princeling named...
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  • eventually became a renowned scholar and was granted the title of Paṇḍịta at Vikramaśilā university by King Mahāpāla (r. until 940 CE). Tibetan sources mention...
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    2016   Dharmapāla (who assisted Dānapāla) was a native of Kashmir and a monk from Vikramaśīla. entry 佛說聖佛母般若波羅蜜多經   The Buddha Speaks The Holy Mother of [All] Buddhas...
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  • and the Vr̥ttamālāstuti of Jñānaśrīmitra, by two great contemporary Vikramaśīla masters who were active on several intellectual fronts and well-known...
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    Buddhist monk, scholar and tantric master (vajracarya) and the abbot of Vikramasila monastery in modern-day, Bihar in India. He was born in somewhere in...
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