Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c30.124

c30.124

**These Monasteries produced some of the greatest Leaders of Buddhism.** It will be seen from Hiuen Tsang's notice of these monasteries how largely they justified themselves as educational institutions by producing some of the greatest men in the history of Buddhist learning and religion. It is to Hiuen Tsang that we owe the information by which we are enabled to trace the schools traditionally associated with the following Buddhist celebrities, viz. Asaṅga, Vasubandhu, Pārśva, Aśvaghosha, Nārāyana-deva, Dharmatāra, Manoratha, Vasumitra, Dharmatrāta, Īśvara, Kumāralabdha, Deva, Nāgārjuna, Madhyāntika, Saṁghabhadra, Skandhila, Pūrṇa, Bodhila, Vinītaprabha, Kātyāyanīputra, Guṇaprabha, Śrīlabdha, Buddhadāsa, Devaśarman, Gopa, Dharmapāla, Guṇamati, Sthiramati, Diṅnāga, Bhāvaviveka, Āchāra, Jinaputra, Bhadraruchi, Mahā-Kātyāyana, besides the distinguished scholars associated with the Nālandā Monastery to be described later.