The University of Nalanda c11.22

c11.22

Of this group of distinguished pandits of the Nālandā University, we would like to speak in detail of Sthiramati, because Hiuen Tsiang in another place speaks of him as the founder of a monastery at Valabhi.⁵ Let us again repeat what Hiuen Tsiang⁶ speaks of him. He says, “The streams of whose superior knowledge spread abroad even now.” Since, in the Catalogue du fond Tibetain, a large number of books are ascribed to him, we may construe the word “abroad” as referring to Tibet. If this can be conclusively proved then we may say that Sthiramati contributed more to the spread of Buddhism in Tibet than his successors Śāntarakṣita and