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Today, one can only imagine the next morning when Vikramshila had witnessed a congregation of 8000 monks, also attended by the ruler Naya Pala and other prominent scholars besides Atisa. Nag-tcho met Atisa the following morning, and days later informed him about the request of the Tibetan king. Saddened on learning about the sacrifice of Lha Lama, Atisa agreed to seek divine guidance which was received from a Yogini at a Buddhist temple atop a hillock in the great Tirthika (Hindu) city of Mukhena, in the neighbourhood of Vikramshila, though with the caveat that even though his proposed visit would be of great service to humanity, it would, however, lessen his life span from 92 to only 72. Thereafter, he took about 3 years to complete his pending works and for handing over charge of the monasteries under his supervision. In those days, life around Vikramshila seems to have been very interesting as well as mysterious, as Nag-tcho witnessed several miraculous happenings including such like a tirthika (Hindu) man believed to have been aged between 300 to 500 years, in a state of suspended animation by breath regulation, an old Brahmin who revived a dead ten year old corpse of the Raja’s son by washing it in the river and a pupil of Atisa who practicing occult powers transformed himself into a wolf and devoured a corpse carried from the cemetery.
To be continued..