The resurgence of Indian Buddhism, accompanied by the modern independence movement’s emphasis on (religious) cultural traditions, has drawn a large group of active and zealous people who emerged and responded to this movement. During the younger days of Bhikkhu Jagdish Kashyap (1908-1976), he determined to overcome the stereotypes associated with family tradition and social culture by embarking an enduring journey, to pursue a real liberation path. After many rounds of robust debates on India’s future growth and prosperity with his close friend, Rahul Sankrityayan (1893-1963), they all became Buddhist monks successively in Ceylon to revive and reinvigorate Buddhism and education in India. Thereafter as well known, Bhikkhu Jagdish Kashyap possessed a profound knowledge of Buddha-Dhamma and served as an authoritative scholar of Abhidhamma but also hosted in person to complete the translation of the Pali scriptures into devanāgarī’s Hindi. He also was the founder of Nava Nalanda Mahavihara. To fulfill his younger day wishes to explore the fundamental of Chinese Buddhism, Bhikkhu Kashyap traveled to Burma, Singapore, and Malaysia. But delicately, when he looks forward to visiting Japan and China, he was restricted by the colonial government and was forced to stay in a Chinese Buddhist temple at Penang. Subsequently long time, because of the opportunity to commemorate the 2,500 years of parinirvana as Buddha, he wrote to Chou En-lai (The Former Premier of the People’s Republic of China) several times, even further to meet up in Beijing to discuss the detailed project of the establishment of Xuan Zang Memorial Hall. In October 1971, Master Dongchu (1908-1977) embarked on an India pilgrimage, meeting with the Venerable at Nalanda to discuss about growing and nurturing younger monks to thrive and developing the First Buddhist Institution in Asia. With this interest in mind, the objective of this paper is to trace the belief system of Elder Bhikkhu Jagdish Kashyap in establishing the educational system and in this modern he carried the legacy forward.
