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Rgya-tson-gru Senge of Tag-tshal, initially sent to Vikramshila with a large quantity of Gold as present, though sympathetically heard by Atisa, was politely declined. Thereafter, the sad King resent him to invite some other scholar inferior to Atisa to Tibet.
At this time Nag-tcho, famous for having recorded his accounts of the times and then still a young monk of Gung-than, had met Gya-tson on the way and begged to be his pupil, but was asked to wait till his return from Magadha as he had proceeded with 5 attendants and a small quantity of Gold, barely enough to meet his expenses for reaching Vikramshila. Unfortunately, Lha Lama died soon after being captured by some ‘Garlog' king, inimical to Buddhism, while visiting the mines on the Nepalese frontier to collect more gold in order to invite Atisa.
Before death, he refused an offer of freedom from captivity upon submission of the Tibetan gold collected for the purpose of inviting Atisa. Thus, to fulfil his mission even after his death, his nephew Prince Chan Chub (Lha-tsunpa), around 1039 A.D., requested Tshul Khrim-gyalwa, also named as ‘Vinaya-dhara’ of the family of Nag-tcho, to visit Vikramshila as an envoy with a large quantity of gold only to again request Atisa.
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