The University of Nalanda c11.142

c11.142

Pandits of Nālandā were famous all over India for their knowledge. Countless pandits of different faiths had to go away out of shame and disgust or renounce their faith and become converts to Buddhism on being defeated in discussion. We have mentioned previously the specific instances, namely, of Dharmapāla, Sthiramati, Śilabhadra, and Hiuen Tsiang. The last may well be included among the pandits of Nālandā, for it was Nālandā that made him what he afterwards became, a pandit conversant with the doctrines of the Bhūtas, Nirgranthas, the Kāpālikas, Jutikas, the Sāmkhyas and the Vaiśeṣikas, over