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Gupta Monarch & Patron of Buddhism
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In the twilight of the Gupta Empire, when Brahmanical orthodoxy was resurging and monastic institutions faced dwindling royal support, Buddhagupta issued copper-plate land grants to Buddhist monasteries in Bengal and Bihar, uniquely specifying that revenues from entire villages be permanently assigned to sustain monks, copy sutras, and maintain stupa complexes. Unlike earlier Gupta kings who patronized multiple faiths abstractly, he inscribed his devotion in legal deeds: one grant at Nalanda explicitly names the Mahasanghika school and mandates daily recitation of the Prajnaparamita Sutra. His reign saw the first known stone inscriptions linking Gupta sovereignty to the Bodhisattva ideal, not as metaphor, but as administrative doctrine. He commissioned the terracotta reliefs at the Kurkihar monastery depicting Maitreya’s future descent, embedding eschatological hope into state-sponsored art. This wasn’t mere tolerance; it was constitutional Buddhism, where dharma governance meant tangible, transferable resources for monastic survival amid shifting political tides.
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- “What prompted your land grants to Mahasanghika monasteries instead of the more established Mahayana centers?”
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