Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c29.13

c29.13

The next individual monasteries mentioned are those of Saṅkāśya. One of these had 1,000 monks and nuns "who all receive their food from the common store and pursue their studies, some of the Mahāyāna, and some of the Hīnayāna" (p. 52). Another was called "The Great Heap". There was a third monastery "containing perhaps 600 or 700 monks" (p. 53).