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The University of Nalanda c11.115

The University of Nālandā c11.115

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c11.115

From the work that Padmasaṃbhava did in Tibet, namely, the spread of Tāntrism, we can well imagine what a hold the Tāntric faith must have had upon the intelligentsia of Nālandā in particular and of India in general or else how could a pandit of Nālandā, who was specially sent for, deliver no other message to the inhabitants of “the roof of the world” but belief in magic and sorcery and worship of innumerable gods and goddesses and demons?²