The University of Nalanda c11.113

c11.113

In Tibet, he founded Lamaism, and is now deified and celebrated in Lamaism as Buddha himself. How he established this new religion is graphically described by Waddell from whose account we have drawn the information about Śāntarakṣita and Padmasaṃbhava. He says,¹ “He vanquished all the chief devils of the land. His most powerful weapons in warring with the demons were the vajra, symbolic of the thunder of Indra, and spells extracted from the Mahāyāna gospels, by which he shattered his supernatural adversaries.” We have already referred to the part he played in the establishment of a monastery in Tibet.