The University of Nalanda c14.55

c14.55

Besides throwing very important light on the actual life of the student, the story has a significance from other points as well. First, we learn that if any action was to be taken, it could be taken only after consulting the whole community of monks. Thus, even so late as the tenth and eleventh centuries A. D., the Buddhist sangha had retained its characteristic government, which we called "Republican Church Government."