The University of Nalanda c11.110

c11.110

Arguing back from the date of his death, viz., A.D. 762 and taking into account the various leading factors of his life, namely, that he visited Tibet for the first time in 743 A.D. as has been shown by Bhattacharyya⁴ and assuming that Śāntarakṣita was about 40 years old, because he had by this time written *Tattvasaṅgraha*, *Tattvasiddhi*, etc., and become so famous that he was called for by the King of Tibet, we come to A.D. 703, a date almost identical with that given by Bose, viz., 705 A.D.⁵ in the reign of King Gopāla, though this king, according to Banerji, came to the throne in 750 A.D.⁶