In the early 1990s, when Mahayogi Shridhar Rana Rinpoche was Acharya Shridhar Rana (see the section on Ratnashri), studying, practicing and teaching Buddhism, the number of his students started growing rapidly. At that time, Buddhist books written in Nepali were scarce and inadequate. In order to provide quality texts for his predominantly Nepali students, he established the Byoma Kusuma Anuvad Samiti (translation committee) that undertook the translation of several important Buddhist texts from Sanskrit and Tibetan into the Nepali language. The first such book was Atisha's Mahayana Matishodan – The Seven Point Mind Training