The University of Nalanda c10.144

c10.144

But one work which is not mentioned in the Tibetan Catalogue has been found by Dr. Bhattacharyya. It is a Tāntric work and is entitled Tattvasiddhi. The work formulates the doctrine of Mahāsukhavāda, a development of the Vijñānavāda.² From this work we learn definitely that the Śāntarakṣita was a follower of Vajrayāna, because *Tattvasaṅgraha* only shows him as a *Vijñānavādi*.¹ No fitter epithet than the one given at the end of this work would apply to Śāntarakṣita's erudition and scholarship. It calls him '*Aśeṣa-para sidhānta sāgarapāra*,' "one who has crossed the ocean of all the manifold doctrines formulated by others." And his *Tattvasaṅgraha* truly reveals him as a man who was master of the different schools of Philosophy, Logic, Grammar, etc.