The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c31.s8.31

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All the Pāla kings without exception were zealous Buddhists, ready to bestow liberal patronage on learned teachers and the numerous monastic communities. Dharmapāla, clearly a man of exceptional capacity, is credited with the merit of having been an ardent reformer of religion. His successors in the eleventh century, who were devoted to Tantric forms of Buddhism, enjoyed the services of many pious men, among whom Atīsa, already mentioned as a missionary in Tibet, was the most eminent.¹