Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v1.c7.55.4

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He studied logic (*hetuvidyā*) from Lita Xian and from Shangen Wang and from Sana and Kuomi Qimei and others; he learned the five treatises of Maitreya and all exoteric and esoteric teachings. After his return to Tibet, he translated commentaries about logic and Paradise (Vyūha). He propagated logic, *prajñā*, *Ru xing lun* (*Bodhicaryāvatāra*), etc. Translator Bacao Richeng also went to Kashmir and studied there for 23 years. He invited master Jiana Jiafuma to Tibet to translate the discourses of Yuecheng (Candrakīrti) and of the Zhongguan (Madhyamaka) School. The theories of the Yingcheng (Prāsaṅgika) branch of Indian Buddhism thus greatly prospered. In 1042 CE, the venerable A Dixia (Atīśa), an Indian monk, arrived in Ali in Tibet and propagated *vinaya*. He compiled Buddhist scriptures and contributed to a Buddhist renaissance. Interaction with Indian Buddhism impelled the overall prosperity of Tibetan Buddhism. Many different schools of Tibetan Buddhism have an important link with the monks of this period. Apart from the Sajia (Sa-skya) School, the Jiaju (Bka’-brgyud) school and the Jiadang (Bka’-gdams) School, pious Kings studied *Shilun* (*Kālacakra*) from Zhuodun Nanglaze from Kashmir, and the teaching of scriptures and treatises of the *Jimi* (*Guhyasamāja*). They became the forerunners of the Juenang (Jo-nang) school.