Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c32.s6.47

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The movement of Indian scholars to China declined after Amoghavajra and the ninth century is almost a blank in this respect. The tenth century saw only three Indian monks in China, as recorded in Nanjio's *Catalogue*. From the year A.D. 973 the movement partially revived with the arrival of four Indian monks in China, followed by the arrival in 973 of the Master of Tripiṭaka named Dharmadeva of Nālandā University, under whom a Board was formed by the emperor for the translation of Indian Buddhist Texts. He was associated in the Board with another Indian scholar, Dānapāla, and other Chinese monks versed in Sanskrit to ensure the precision and literary standard of the translations in Chinese. In eight years (A.D. 973-981), he translated as many as forty-six works, mostly on Tantra and Dhāraṇī, on which the texts he had secured as a student of Nālandā. He died in A.D. 1001.