The University of Nalanda c10.23

c10.23

Being primarily a religious institution, Nālandā had made Theology compulsory for all the students.³ And knowledge of Theology meant a thorough grasp of all the works on Mahāyāna besides acquaintance with all the eighteen schools of Buddhism.⁴ Mahāyāna, by the time the University had sprung up, consisted, on its philosophical or metaphysical side, of at least two schools, viz., Śūnyavāda and Vijñānavāda or Nihilism and Idealism.