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Kunga Gyeltsen became a close disciple of the Kashmiri teacher Śākyaśrībhadra (1140-1225) and also studied under the Indian masters Saṅghaśrī, Danasīla, and Sugataśrī, who had accompanied Śākyaśrāibhadra to Tibet in 1204. He took full ordination with Śākyaśrībhadra in 1208, who trained him in the entire span of monastic education then current in the great monasteries of India, including Abhidharma, Vinaya, Prajñāpāramitā, Madhyamaka, logic and epistemology, grammar and poetics ...
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He was accompanied by several Indian paṇḍitas: Sugataśrī, an expert in Madhyamaka and Prajñāpāramitā; Jayadatta, in Vinaya; Vibhūticandra, in grammar and Abhidharma; Dānaśīla, in logic; Saṅghaśrī, in Candavyākaraṇa; Jīvagupta, in the books of Maitreya; Mahābodhi, in the Bodhicaryāvatāra; and Kālacandra in the Kālacakra. ...
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