STUDIED at the University of Nalanda. Nalanda University was the first ever university of India which was founded in the 5th century CE but got abandoned in the 13th century.Its RUINS are found in present-day Bihar.Xuanzang, born Chen HUI / Chen Yi, was a Chinese Buddhist MONK, scholar, traveler, and translator who traveled to India in the seventh century and described the interaction between Chinese Buddhism and Indian Buddhism during the early Tang dynasty.