The University of Nalanda c23.1

c23.1

| A | B |
| Abhyākara Gupta, pandit of Vikramaśilā, 124. | Bakhtiyar Khilji, 208, 211, 214; attacked the fort of Bihar, 212. |
| Ajātaśatru, King of Magadha, 154. | Bālāditya Narasimhagupta, Vasubandhu and, 19, 103; built saṅghārāmas and Vihāras at Nālandā, 45, 103; Narasimhagupta, 49; ruled in, 51; restorer of Nālandā, 52, 55; stūpa and, 220, 221-222 n. |
| Akṣapāda, founder of Nyāya System, 13 n. 5. | Bālaputradeva, King of, 58; patronage of, 58; Nālandā and, 58, 191, 205. |
| Akṣobhaya, 135; emanations of, 135, 137. | Balavarman, ambassador of, 58; Nālandā and, 58. |
| Alexander, invasion of, 6, 164. | Banerji-Sastri, on the identification of Vikramaśilā, 181. |
| Aparājitā, Tāntric image, 137; description of, 138, 139. | Beal, quoted on, 35. |
| Aristotle, syllogism of, 22. | Belvalkar, author of, 7 n. 1. |
| Aryadeva, exponent of Mādhyamika Philosophy, 18; author of, 18, 22, Nālandā and, 102. | Bhartṛihari, author of, 144. |
| Aryavarma, a Corean student at Nālandā, 198. | Bhattacharyya, on Vajrayāna, 98; on Tattvasaṅgraha, 83; on the origin of Tantra, 87; on Karuṇā doctrine, 89; on Tāntric Mantras, 93, 94; author of, 135; referred to, 137. |
| Asaṅga, promulgator of Yogācāra, 19; pandit of Nālandā, 20, 75, 102, 104, 204; promulgator of Tantra, 91: Mātriketa and, 200. | Bimbisāra, 154. |
| Aśvaghoṣa, on Nirvāṇa, 88; author of, 88 n. 1. | Bitpālo, artist of Magadha, 233; teacher of art at Nālandā, 235. |
| Atīśa, otherwise known as Dīpaṃkara Śrījñāna, abbot of Vikramaśilā, 31, 182, 184; figure at Vikramaśilā of, 183; life of, 183, 184; and Nayapāla, 194; visit to Tibet, 184, 190; death of 184; Tibetan envoy's description of, 184; 185; historicity of, 185; Tibetan inscriptions about, 185; Tibetan name of, 185; wrote on Tantra, 185; works of, 186; Maitri incident and, 187; character, 188; Tāntrism and, 190. | Bosch, on the Nālandā bronzes, 234. |
| Avalon, on Tāntrism, 95, 99; on the aims of Tāntrics, 96, 99; on Tantra symbolism, 97. | Byang-chub-'od, King who invited Atīśa to Tibet, 185. |
| Avalokiteśvara, cult of, 89, 95; image of, 133, 221, 226, 227, 234, 236. | Bodhidharma, a Tukhāra student at Nālandā, 198. |
| | Bodhisattva, cult of, 89; image of, 133; description of a peculiar type of, 133. |
| | Buddha, Vassā and, 25; on vihāra, 27, 28; Nālandā and, 34, 35, 36; image of, 131; description of the bronze figure of, 132; from Jagdīspura, 132; on the relation of Bhikkhus and their preceptor, |