The University of Nalanda c15.49

c15.49

We proceed with the pilgrims who visited Nālandā by the Northern route. The Shaman Yuan Chiu went to India through Tibet. He stayed at Jalandhara, where he studied the Sanskrit language, the Buddhist Sūtras and the Vinaya. Thereafter, he reached Nālandā, where he remained three years and made the acquaintance of a priest called Shin-Kwong. He also met here a noted priest of Ceylon, from whom, he received a copy of the Yoga and the sacred books. In 664 A. D., he paid a second visit to India and also to Nālandā, where I-Tsing was then residing.³