Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c32.s4: V. Odantapuri
Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c32.s4
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V. Odantapuri
c32.s4.1
Very little is known of this University, although at the time of Abhayakaragupta there were 1,000 monks in residence here, as has been already stated. Odantapurī is now known for its famous scholar named Prabhākara who hailed from Chatarpur in Bengal.
c32.s4.2
It appears that this University had existed long before the Pāla kings came into power in Magadha. These kings expanded the University by endowing it with a good Library of Brahmanical and Buddhist works. We have also seen how this Monastery was taken as the model on which the first Tibetan Buddhist Monastery was built in A.D. 749 under King Khri-sron-deu-tsan on the advice of his guru, Śāntarakshita.