Hsuan Tsang visited Nalanda University ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When Hsuan Tsang visited Nalanda, the Head of the University was Silabhadra, surnamed the Treasure of the Good Law." He was a learned man. He had wandered to many parts of India and, after many wanderings, had come to Nalanda. He could, if he liked, be a Raja [King] in East Bengal, but he realized that wisdom was richer than rubies. And Silabhadra moved on in quest of knowledge, until, at last, he came to Nalanda and there became, one day, the President of the great University. Silabhadra was not only a great scholar: he was a man of awakened buddhi -- a saint filled with true spirit of seva, service of humanity. Hsuan Tsang, the Chinese pilgrim, comes to Nalanda and in reverence bows down to Silabhadra and asks, "Tell me, master! What is knowledge. Silabhadra says to him: "My child! Knowledge is perception of the principles or laws of life." "What are they?" asks the pilgrim. ----------------------------- Principles of Laws of Life ----------------------------- Silabhadra says: the principles of laws of life are five: (1) the principle of fellowship; (2) principle of reverence; (3) principle of concentration, meditation, dhyana, (4) the principle of tolerance; and (4) the principle of compassion, sympathy, seva and yagna, service and sacrifice." In these few words, the saintly, old man, already a hundred and six years old, summed up the whole philosophy of education. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ legacyofwisdom.blogspot.in/2013/07/an-ancient-university-nalanda.html
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