The University of Nalanda c13.91

c13.91

No such distinctions, however, were to be found among the Buddhists. For with them, there was no caste; all people were same to them. Now, the dress that was prescribed by Buddha for a *Bhikkhu* was to be the dress of a student also. Very little difference was made between a student and a *Bhikkhu*. A student, in fact, as long as he was in a monastery was guided by the same rules and regulations that were prescribed for a *Bhikkhu*. The dress of a student who studied at Buddhist monasteries, where *Bhikkhus* also resided, must be like that of the *Bhikkhus*. We shall, therefore, see what the dress of a *Bhikkhu* was.