Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c31.55

c31.55

**Monasteries owning too much wealth.** But "it is unseemly", as observed by I-tsing, "for a monastery to have great wealth, granaries full of rotten corn, many servants, male and female, money and treasures hoarded in the treasury, without using any of these things, while all the members are suffering from poverty" (ib.).