The University of Nalanda c11.107

c11.107

Śāntarakṣita—the man—can hardly be separated from Śāntarakṣita—the Philosopher, Logician and the Tāntric. Of his private life we know very little. Some say that he was a native of Gaur.³ Vidyābhusana, on the strength of another Tibetan source, says that he was born in the royal family of Zahor, which cannot be Lahore as Waddell has said,¹ but which very likely must be, as Bhattacharyya has pointed out, the small village of Sābhār in Pargana of Vikramapura.²