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Sarat Chandra Das —Ancient China . 
Tsonkhapa’s reformation was not known, not to speak of Tibet, in the annals 
of Ancient India since the Nirvana of Buddha. 
The Emperor of China, Princes of Mongolia, and other great patrons 
of Buddhism paid tribute to his honour. Tsonkhapa is said to have ap¬ 
pointed under a solemn covenant a great number of gods, demons, demi¬ 
gods and fairies to defend the sacred religion. In the other sects, when 
an enemy invaded the sacred precincts, the monks generally used to escape 
by flight. Some of these sometimes killed their enemies by propitiating 
demons and evil spirits, and by the practice of sorceries and the black art. 
But such proceedings being contrary to the precepts of Buddha, the 
cursed perpetrators eventually had to go to hell. 
The followers of the Sakya sect and the Gelugpas were free from 
the guilt of such infernal practices. 
