What type of Buddhist deities were depicted in the illustrated manuscripts at Nalanda and Vikramsila?

1) Theravada Buddhist deities
2) Vajrayana Buddhist deities
3) Mahayana Buddhist deities
4) Zen Buddhist deities

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Vajrayana Buddhist deities

Monasteries, such as Nalanda and Vikramsila were great centres of Buddhist learning, and art and numerous manuscripts were illustrated here with Buddhist themes and images of Vajrayana Buddhist deities on palm leaves. These centres also had workshops for casting of bronze images. Students and pilgrims from all over South East Asia came to these monasteries for education and religious instruction, and took back specimens of Pala Buddhist art in the form of bronze and illustrated manuscripts.