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The latter, when he had previously been a pandit, an erudite scholar, was called Dharmapala, the elder mentioned by Chandrakirti in An Autocommentary on "A Supplement to [Nagarjuna's 'Root Stanzas on] the Middle Way.'"
The Gelug-Kagyu Tradition of Mahamudra ��� Session Four 1997
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Among them was Dharmapala (Dha-rma pa-la), who together with the Indian disciples who accompanied him, started the second Mulasarvastivada monk ordination line in Tibet.
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Its first emperor, Gopala (750 - 770), had founded the Buddhist monastic university of Odantapuri, while its second, Dharmapala (770 - 810), established Vikramashila and Somapura.
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Even though Dharmapala had extended his empire to the borders of Gandhara in the west and Bengal in the east, he had never involved the Buddhist monasteries in the political and military vicissitudes of the state.
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For example, at the end of the tenth-century CE, King Yeshey-wo invited the East Indian master Dharmapala and several of his followers to Guge, Western Tibet, to confer Mulasarvastivada bhikshu ordination.
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Leading rulers: Dharmapala (c. 770c. 883), and Devapala (c. 881c. 883), who endowed a monastery founded at Nalanda by Balaputradeva, king of Sumatra.
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Even though Dharmapala had extended his empire to the borders of Gandhara in the west and Bengal in the east, he had never involved the Buddhist monasteries in the political and military vicissitudes of the state.
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Its first emperor, Gopala (750 – 770 C.E.), had founded the Buddhist monastic university of Odantapuri, while its second, Dharmapala (770 – 810 C.E.), established Vikramashila and Somapura.
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Dharmapala was surrounded by a horde of curious monks who were more interested in his strange appearance and in the cost of his garments than they were in his great ideals.
Buddhism and Buddhists in China Lewis Hodus
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Dharmapala, in expounding the teachings of the Buddha, at the World's
A Short History of Monks and Monasteries Alfred Wesley Wishart 1899
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