Padmakara Translation Group (2005: p.3) ground Shantarakshita's Dharma in Buddhism and the Hinduism from which it, Buddhism, seceded: Shantarakshita's writings, lost for the most part in Sanskrit but preserved in Tibetan translation, give evidence of the encyclopedic range of his learning, which embraced all the religious and philosophical currents of his time, Hindu and Buddhist alike.