The University of Nalanda c10.31
The University of Nālandā c10.31
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c10.31
It is not difficult to identify this doctrine with the general principles of Mahāyāna, for, we are told, that the priests of Orissa all studied the Little Vehicle and did not believe in the Great Vehicle. They said that it was a system of the "Sky-flower" heretics, and was not delivered by Buddha.⁴ Hīnayānists looked upon this doctrine with such a great contempt that they went to the length of even identifying it with that of the Kāpālika sect.⁵ Harṣa in order to defend this doctrine sent for four distinguished pandits of Nālandā, which was then the centre of the "sky-flower" doctrine. The University, in response to the king's request, sent four eminent pandits: Sāgaramati, Prajñāraśmi, Siṃharaśmi and the Master of the Law (Hiuen Tsiang).