The University of Nalanda c14.34
The University of Nālandā c14.34
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He was repeatedly invited to Tibet, by King Lha Lama of Tibet who wanted to purify the debased and enervated Tibetan Buddhism. Even though he was offered plenty of gold, twice he declined to go. With great persuasion of Sthavira Ratnākara, and entreaties of the Tibetan ámbassador in the year 1038 A. D., he visited Tibet. He wrote many books on Mahāyāna, delivered lectures on it and thus revived the practice of pure Mahāyāna doctrine. Atiśa died at Nethang near Lhasa, at the age of seventy-three, in the year 1053 A.D. He is remembered with deep veneration ‘all over high Asia’ or wherever the Buddhism of Tibet prevails.¹