Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c31.19

c31.19

**(2) Of Religion.** There were again courses of specialization in religious or priestly studies which were organized and offered by the monasteries. The most famous of such seats of higher learning in the time of I-tsing's visit to India were "the Nālanda monastery in Central India" and that "in the country of Valabhī in Western India" (p. 177).