The University of Nalanda c24.9.1

c24.9.1

**N** Nala, birth-place of, 38. Nālaka, birth-place of, 38. Nālandā, application of the word, ‘University’ to, 1; and Theology, 2 n. 4; educational institutions at, 3; a *vihāra*, 4; professors, 5; period preceding the rise of, 5; heritage of, 6, 23, 229; wall at, 29, 53; old account of, 33; meaning of, 35; origin of the name of, 36 n. 2; Buddha and, 36; Suviṣṇu and, 39; University town and, 40; climate at, 41; prophecy about, 42; Mihirakula and, 43; royal patrons of, 44; I-Tsing on, 46; date of the royal rise of, 51-52; Tantra at, 86; Tāntrism and, 101; education, 101; Purṇavarma and, 55; Yaśovarmmadeva and, 56; Devapāladeva and, 57, 58-59; Gopāla II, 59; Mahīpāla I, 59, 60; Pālas and, 61; number of colleges at, 62; arrangement and description of buildings at, 62-63; library at, 63, 215; a scholastic city, 64; studies of, 65; curriculum at, 65, 67, 145; degree, 66, 174; method of examination at, 66, 147; two kinds of students at, 67; Theology and, 67; sky-flower doctrine, 68, 69; teachings, 78; not a Buddhist University only, 82; a Temple of Learning, 82; Astronomy at, 85; clepsydra at, 85; ritualism 94, 128, 131; changes in ritualism of, 140; and Tāntrism, 101; Art, 101, 139, 231, 232, 233, 234; education, 101; Pandita, 102; Vasubandhu, 103; Asaṅga, 103; and Śīlabhadra, 110, 111, 112; and Dharmakīrti, 112; and Śāntideva, 116; and Padmasambhava, 118, 119; and Candrogomin, 122; and Vīradeva, 123; seal of, 123; in a flourishing condition, 124; and Buddhakīrti, 124;