The University of Nalanda c13.31

c13.31

From the records of Hiuen Tsiang, it would appear that the method, in majority of cases, was tutorial. He says,¹ "The old and the young mutually help one another," that is, the old, meaning the teacher, helped the student in his studies by explaining to him the various difficult passages of the book, etc. Hiuen Tsiang himself was taught the Yoga śāstra by Śīlabhadra, and many other works, he learnt from Jayasena and others in the same manner.² The student, in his turn, as we shall see elsewhere in detail, assisted the teacher in performing all the domestic and religious duties.