Sarat Chandra Das, a noted scholar, documented the historical contributions of Indian Buddhist masters who traveled to Tibet in his seminal work, Indian Pandits in the Land of Snow. Originally published in 1893, this text drew heavily from the fourteenth-century Tibetan narrative chos ’byung, authored by the Sakya master Butön Rinchen Drub. Das’s research, which initially appeared in the Journal of the Buddhist Text Society of India, provided detailed accounts of influential figures from Bengal such as Atiśa, Kamalaśīla, and Śāntarakṣita. These historical records regarding the spread of Buddhism served as a significant source of inspiration for the Bengali novelist Saradindu Bandopadhyay, who incorporated elements of this scholarly material into his own creative writing.
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