A contemporary of I-tsing (late 7th century) in Eastern India. Mookerji, Ancient, pp. 548, 573. Students of all religions and sects flocked to his forest retreat.
An eminent scholar of eastern India. Tôru Funayama, Two Notes on Dharmapāla and Dharmakīrti, Zinbun, vol. 35 (2000), pp. 1-11, at p. 10.
