He was a scholar of Vikramaśīla who later helped Sa bzang Lo tsā ba Blo gros rgyal mtshan with translating the Kri ya'i dkyil chog at Sa skya. Mtshan-tho, no. 122.
E.W. Marasinghe, The Vāstuvidyā Śāstra Ascribed to Mañjuśrī, Bibliotheca Indo-Buddhica no. 67 (Delhi 1989).
E.W. Marasinghe, Citrakarmaśāstra ascribed to Mañjuśrī, Being Volume II of Vāstuvidyāśāstra, Sri Satguru Publications (Delhi 1991). Includes Sanskrit (Devanagari) text and English translation.
H. Ruelius, Mañjuśrībhāṣita-Citrakarmaśāstra: A Mahāyānistic Śilpaśāstra from Sri Lanka, contained in: H. Bechert, ed., Buddhism in Ceylon and Studies on Religious Syncretism in Buddhist Countries, Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht (Göttingen 1978), pp. 89-99.
M.H.F. Jayasuriya, Leelananda Prematilleke and Roland Silva, Mañjuśrī Vāstuvidyāśāstra [chapters 1-3], Romanized Transcription with a Tentative Edition, English Translation and Studies, Bibliotheca Zeylanica Series no. 1 (Colombo 1995).
Discussion by H. Bechert in: Paul Harrison and G. Schopen, eds., Sūryacandrāya: Essays in Honour of Akira Yuyama (Swisttal-Odendorf 1998), pp. 6-8. It is a lengthy Sanskrit work in more than 1600 stanzas. A single (14th-century) manuscript in Sinhala script exists. Various dates have been suggested, ranging from 5th to 12th centuries.
