The University of Nalanda c10.54

c10.54

After these luminaries ceased to sparkle, there does not appear anybody in the literary firmament who dazzles us with his light, until we come to the eleventh century, when once more we behold a brilliant star who illuminated not only India but like his predecessors, brightened up such distant lands as Ceylon, and Sumatra in the South, and Tibet in the North. This star was the famous Dīpaṃkara Śrījñāna, more popularly known as Atīśa. But, as he belonged more to the sister University of Vikramaśīlā, we do not review his activities here. And as the times of Atīśa bring us almost to the end of Nālandā's career, we pass on to the consideration of the second important item of the curriculum.