Sakyaraksita may have also authorec a commentary

on Manjusri Stotra only extant in sanskrit, may be inline

with brief comment of Taranatha;

the country of the Rakhan (Arakan) -

and Hamsavati (Pegu), Marko

etc, the country of Munans (Mons). Further, Cakma (Champa?), Kamboja etc. All these are

collectively called Koki.

From the time of Asoka, samghas were established in these Koki countries... Some of the

disciples of Vasubandhu

propagated the Mahayana... from the time of king Dharmapala on, there were in

Madhyadesa many students from these

places. Their number went on increasing so that during the time of the four Senas (kings

of Pala Dynasty) about

half of the monks of Magadha were from Koki. Thus, in these countries the Mahayana was
widely spread and the difference

between the Hinayana and Mahayana disappeared...

From the time of Abhayakara the influence of the Mantrayana went on increasing. As most

scholars of the Madhyadesa

went to these countries after the invasion of Magadha by the Turuskas (Turks)...

It is said that even now during the occasional congregations the number of bhiksus

reaches twenty to thirty thousand,

not to speak of course of the numerous upasakas.

From these countries came the later panditas like Vanaratna, who visited Tibet.

In the later period, there was a king there called *Balasundara. Though in these countries,

the Vinaya, Abhidharma

and the and the Mahayana sastras were very popular, the secret mantra teachings except a

few like the Kalacakra and

Trayavrttamala (same as Vrttamala commented on by Sakyaraksita?) had become extremely

rare..."

3Sakyaraksita's Vrttamalavivrti on Jnanasrimitra's Vrttamalastuti (2013 Michael Hahn)

Jnanasrimitra was a contemporary of Ratnakarasanti, his stuti illustrates 150 poetic metres in

a praise of Manjusri.

page 275:

"Dpang Lo tsa ba Blo gros brtan pa (1276-1342 and teacher was Shong ston rdo rje rgyal

mtshan C1240 went to Nepal and

Bodhgaya where learned poetry with Pandita Laksmikara)

states that he has... used the commentary of a certain Sakyaraksita."

Not a direct disciple as "There are a few cases where the Vrttamalastuti was not correctly

understood."

1276-1342
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