The University of Nalanda c13.52

c13.52

We think, therefore, that there must be other students who had passed their whole career at Nālandā, primarily as *Bhikkhus*. Such students must have entered the University not at the age of twenty but at least some five to seven years before, just after they had finished their studies in grammar.² For these students, Nālandā was not the University of Universities but merely a school for secondary education, from which they were gradually to pass on to Nālandā, the University.