When the Government of India decided to revive Nalanda in 2010 with an international university, Dr Kavita A. Sharma was compelled to find out why. What she discovered was a world once alive with scholar-monks, royal patronage, and cross-cultural pilgrimages. This slim but powerful book is her personal journey into the heart of Nalanda's mystique--where echoes of Chinese monks like Xuanzang and I-Ching still seem to whisper through the ruins, and the ghosts of Indian scholars who once braved the perilous route to China are aching to be remembered.