The University of Nalanda c14.9

c14.9

² It is not on the strength of Hiuen Tsiang's statement only who says, "Most of the priests study the Little Vehicle," that we call it a Hīnayānist University. The fact that not a single image of Buddha was found in the excavations carried out by Rev. Fr. Heras (in Oct. 1930) testifies that it must be a University of Hīnayānists who were not worshippers of Buddha like the Mahāyānists.