Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c32.s1.54

c32.s1.54

*Nālandā Literature and Scholars in Tibet.* It is, however, to be understood that this cultural intercourse between these Asiatic countries and India was not one-sided. India was equally zealous in spreading abroad the message of her Truths. In this extension of her culture to foreign countries, the students of Nālandā took the lead. Nālandā deputed her own students to propagate Buddhism in Tibet and China. Nālandā had already equipped herself for this task by organizing at the University a School of Tibetan studies. Its scholars, learning Tibetan, employed themselves upon the task of translating into Tibetan select Buddhist works from Sanskrit. They created the Literature which converted Tibet to a new religion. These books have survived their mortal authors and are immortal creations carrying on their beneficent work to this day as the source of spiritual nourishment of an entire people.