Śrīmitra A Tantric Buddhist Yogin at the Gāhaḍavāla Court, in the Kathmandu Valley, in Tibet, and in His Afterlife Péter-Dániel Szántó Universiteit Leiden p.d.szanto@hum.leidenuniv.nl Śrīmitra (late 12th to early 13th c.) is one of those very rare historical individuals about whom we have historical information both from India and from Tibet. I will try to reconstruct this remarkable individual’s career chiefly from an inscription in Bodh-Gaya and from Khro phu lo tsā ba’s mostly unstudied biographical works. We will first examine the inscription in its broader context of Gāhaḍavāla patronage patterns and then we will read and discuss some excerpts from Khro phu’s biography focusing on his account of meeting Śrīmitra in Nepal and bringing him to Tibet, as well as his claims about the siddha’s Elvis-like aſterlife. I will conclude by sharing some thoughts about this crucial (and tragic) period in Buddhist history. Sampuṭodbhava with Sampuṭatilaka Ms Wellcome Library 2 illumination