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Lhasa, June 4 -- : The Indian Nalanda Buddhist masters had made a huge contribution to spreading the doctrine of Buddhism to the Far East countries. Atisha Dipaikara, who was born as a royal prince to the Gaur family of Vikramanipur city in Bengal in the year 980 AD which was then under the Pala Empire of Ancient India, was the second among three of siblings of King Kalyan Shri and Queen Prabhavati and was given the name Chandragarbha, Tibet Press reported. The accounts of Atisha Dipankara's life are found in Tibetan texts--biographies, doctrinal works, catalogues and hymns written in...
