བྱང་ཆབ་ལམ་གྱ་སྒྲན་མ p8

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While amassing even more gold with which to invite the master, King Yeshe Ö was captured by the ardently anti-Buddhist Karluk (Qarluq) people, who said that the king’s freedom could only be bought for his own weight in gold. His nephew Jangchub Ö raised the requisite fortune for the king’s release only to have Yeshe Ö tell him to use the gold to again invite Atiśa, now with the message that the king had sacrificed his very life to bring the master to Tibet.[2] When Atiśa heard the story of the king’s supreme sacrifice, and on being urged directly by the goddess Tārā herself, he accepted the invitation and departed for Tibet, where he would remain for the rest of his life.