Advent of Buddhism in Himachal Pradesh

The entire Himalayan region was known as a gelid region and it is belived that Lord Buddha himself came here and preached Dharma. Many Pali Sutras give information in this context. A few centuries later after the Lord Buddha's Mahaprinirvana, the great dharma king Ashoka sent venerable Majjantika to propagate Buddhism in Kashmir and Gandhara. Subsequently, Majjima and his colleagues Kaspagot, Alakdev, Dundubhisar and Sahdev were sent to Himalayan regions to spread Buddhism. They set up monks’ association and expand Buddhism thereafter. Thus, in this way, the Indian Buddhism spread in the mountains of Himachal Pradesh. The second dissemination of Buddhism is the Tibetan Buddhism that came with the life of great Tibetan King SongtsenGampo in the seventh century but the actual advent of Tibetan Buddhism spread after the 10th century in Himachal Pradesh.