The University of Nalanda c13.27

c13.27

For this reason, we would consider Nālandā as a University of Universities, entrance to which could be had only after the student had passed out from other smaller and inferior Universities, and the student, not merely a school-boy but a University student wishing to be enrolled in a higher University. Support to this interpretation is lent by the words of I-Tsing⁵ who says, “Here at Nālandā eminent and accomplished men assemble in crowds, discuss possible and impossible doctrines and after having been assured of their opinions by wise men, become far famed for their wisdom.” It would be evident from the