Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c32.s2.13

c32.s2.13

**2. Vairochana.** Vairochana Rakshita was a pupil of Padmasambhava, on whose departure to Tibet he came to Vikramaśīla, where he wrote several works in Sanskrit, such as *Bodhisattva-charyāvatāra-pañjikā*, *Ratna-vāda-chakra*, and the like and translated into Tibetan several Tantrika works like *Vinaya-Saṁgraha*, *Śukla-vajra-yoginī-sādhana*, or *Prajñā-pāramitā-hṛidaya-sādhana*. He followed his guru later to Tibet in the time of its King Khri-Sroṅ-Ide-Btsan, about A.D. 750. He won the titles of *Mahāpaṇḍita* and *Mahāchārya*.