The University of Nalanda c10.210

c10.210

Avalon has struck a right note, indeed, when he says, "If they (doctrines and practices) are meaningless to them (western authors), it is because they do not know the meaning. ...Nevertheless the true spirit of scholarship will endeavour to be just, and if any doctrine or practice is not understood, it is better and safer to admit that ignorance than to allege meaninglessness and absurdity."¹