Śāntarakṣita

He sits at the edge of the line this batch states, and is ingested rather than blocked because the act the sources give him is a mythic one - a monastery that cannot be built because the land's spirits undo it - and because holding Padmasambhava without the man who had to send for him would be precisely the fault this programme keeps finding.

Domains

• monastic ordination
• founding of samye

Relations

• invited by: Trisong Detsen
• sent for: Padmasambhava

Sources

• Reference treatment of the founding of Samye: Santaraksita was invited to Tibet by King Trisong Detsen, founded the temple and monastery of Samye and ordained the first seven Tibetan monks in 779, establishing the Tibetan sangha; construction begun in 763 met serious resistance from the non-human forces native to Tibet, and at Santaraksita's insistence the king invited the Indian Vajrayana master Padmasambhava, who tamed the local spirits and bound all human and non-human obstructers to the service of the Dharma before the monastery's completion in 767.