The University of Nalanda c13.157

c13.157

Next, in point of time is Hiuen Tsiang. Before recording his impressions about Nālandā, he refers to another monastery, Tilaḍaka. Scholars are not unanimous as to the exact location of this monastery. According to Cunningham, it is the modern Tillāra, while Fergusson locates it in the Barabara hills.³ "It was a large and famous establishment flourishing in the 7th century—about 20 miles to the west of Nālandā."⁴ Here 1000 priests carried on study in Mahāyāna, and learned men from different cities and scholars from distant countries flocked together in crowds, and having reached so far, abode in the *saṅghārāma*.⁵ The number of students must be, when there were about 1000 priests, more than 2000. We can safely put it down to 1500 to 2000.