> > > The Tantras were composed during the Gupta Age. > > > Vaj wrote: > > The tantras pre-date written history, > > Yeah, that makes a lot of sense: the tantric texts were composed before written history!
"Kanishka had clearly revived Ashoka's policy of patronising the Buddhist sangha and promoting the spread of Buddhist doctrine. From Chinese sources it was even known that the first Buddhist missionaries to China had set out from India in 65 AD. It was therefore probably under the Parthians or the Kushanas that the monks Dharmaraksa and Kasyapa Matanga had made their way to China, there to found the first monastery and begin their work of preaching and translating the sacred doctrines" (114). Source: 'India: A History' by John Keay Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000
