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. CULTURAL RELATIONS OF INDIA WITH TIBET AND CHINA
Narendra Kumar Dash
[An article entitled "Cultural Relations of India with Tibet and China'' was published by the author in the S.R. Rao's 70th birthday volume, Goa; in which he discussed the cultural linkage between India & Tibet from 7th century A.D. to the middle of 11th century A.D., when Dipamkara Srijñāna reached at Tibet (1042 A D.). Now in this paper he proposes to study on the activities of Dipankara Šrijñāna in Tibet. Further, in this article a nice picture of the India's cultural relations with China and viceversa has been projected. Particularly the interchange of scholars between India and Cbina from 1st century A.D. to 11th century A.D. –Editor.]
In the water-Male-Horse year i.e. 1042 A.D.; Atisa reached : m Na-ris, a place in Tibet. He, however, preached the good law in western and central Tibet particularly in sne-thān and gtsan monasteries. When Buddhism had already taken its deep root in the soil of Tibet for the second time, in the year of Wood-Male-Horse year i.e. 1054 A.D., Dipaṁkara passed away at Nei-than near Lhase at the age of seventythree. Gos lo-tsa-ba suggests that “On the twentieth day of the middle autumn month of the year Wood-Male-Horse year (4,D. 1054) the Masies proceeded to Tuşita. In the writings of ancient bkagdamn-pa-s there is much disagreement as to the elements of this Horse year, but I have given (the date) after a thorough examination of the different dates mentioned in the lives of contemporary) teachers. This year WoodMale-Horse is certain.”'?
Initially, after spending three years at mNa-ris when Dipamkara was preparing to return to his motherland, he
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