The University of Nalanda c10.14

c10.14

I-Tsing also fully corroborates what his predecessor had noticed. He writes⁴, "Thus instructed by their teachers and instructing others they (students) pass two or three years, generally in the Nālandā monastery in Central India or in the country of Valabhi in Western India. There eminent and accomplished men assemble in crowds, discuss possible and impossible doctrines, and after being assured of their excellence of their opinions by wise men, become far-famed for their wisdom."