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  2. Nalanda University - Wikipedia

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    Nālandā University (NU; ISO: Nālandā Vishwavidyalaya) is a premier research university located in the ancient city of Rajgir in the state of Bihar, India.Designated as an Institute of National Importance (INI) and excellence, it is the flagship project of the Ministry of External Affairs (India) [8] and the direct successor of the Nalanda monastery of medieval Magadha.

  3. Nalanda mahavihara - Wikipedia

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    Nalanda University (also known as Nalanda International University) is an international and research-intensive university located in the historical city of Rajgir in Bihar, India. It was established by an Act of Parliament to emulate the famous ancient university of Nalanda, which functioned between the 5th and 13th centuries.

  4. Ancient institutions of learning in the Indian subcontinent

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    First university. The University of ancient Taxila was a renowned Buddhist ancient institute of higher-learning located in the city of Taxila as well. According to scattered references that were only fixed a millennium later, it may have dated back to at least the fifth century BC. [1]

  5. Xuanzang - Wikipedia

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    At age 27, he began his seventeen-year overland journey to India. He defied his nation's ban on travel abroad, making his way through central Asian cities such as Khotan to India. He visited, among other places, the famed Nalanda University in modern day Bihar, India where he studied with the monk, Śīlabhadra. He departed from India with ...

  6. Nava Nalanda Mahavihara - Wikipedia

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    Nava Nalanda Mahavihara was founded to develop as a centre of higher studies in Pali and Buddhism along the lines of ancient Nalanda Mahavihara. From the beginning, the Institute functioned as a residential institution with few Indian and foreign students. [1] It became a Deemed university in 2006. [2]

  7. Ancient higher-learning institutions - Wikipedia

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    The Persian historian Minhaj-i-Siraj, in his chronicle the Tabaqat-i-Nasiri, reported an attack on a Buddhist monastery in which all the Buddhist monks were killed. This may have been Nalanda but others believe it was Odantapuri. [12] In 2014 the modern Nalanda University was launched in nearby Rajgir.

  8. File:Famed Buddhist Nalanda University ruins, 1993.jpg

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    Nalanda was ransacked and destroyed by Turkic Muslim invaders under Bakhtiyar Khalji in 1200. The great library of Nalanda University was so vast that it is reported to have burned for three months after the invaders set fire to it, ransacked and destroyed the monasteries, and drove the monks from the site. Nalanda means "insatiable in giving ...

  9. Education in Bihar - Wikipedia

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    Nalanda Open university [21] was established in March 1987 by Government of Bihar to impart education exclusively through distance education and later in 1995, Nalanda Open University Act [22] was passed by the legislature of Bihar and thereafter came under the authority and jurisdiction of the passed act.