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  2. 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.

  3. List of destroyed libraries - Wikipedia

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    City partially destroyed, libraries sacked and burned. [21] Nalanda: Nalanda India 1193 Bakhtiyar Khilji: Nalanda University complex (the most renowned repository of Buddhist knowledge in the world at the time) was sacked by Turkic Muslim invaders under the perpetrator; this event is seen as a milestone in the decline of Buddhism in India. [22]

  4. 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.

  5. Ancient higher-learning institutions - Wikipedia

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    Nalanda, ancient center of higher learning in Bihar, India [7] [8] from 427 to 1197. Nalanda was established in the fifth century CE in Bihar, India, [7] and survived until circa 1200 CE. It was devoted to Buddhist studies, but it also trained students in fine arts, medicine, mathematics, astronomy, politics and the art of war.

  6. List of book-burning incidents - Wikipedia

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    The Nazis destroyed much of Warsaw during World War II: an estimated 16 million books, and about 85% of the city's buildings. [ g ] The libraries of the University of Warsaw and of the Warsaw Institute of Technology were razed. 14 other libraries were completely burned to the ground.

  7. 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]

  8. Muhammad Bakhtiyar Khalji - Wikipedia

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    His invasions destroyed the university establishments at Odantapuri, Vikramashila Mahaviras. [ 33 ] [ 12 ] Minhaj-i-Siraj Juzjani's Tabaqat-i Nasiri documents Bakhtiyar Khalji's sack of a Buddhist monastery, [ 12 ] which the author equates in his description with a city he calls "Bihar", from the soldiers' use of the word vihara . [ 34 ]

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

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    Nalanda means "insatiable in giving". Date: 23 September 2009, 01:34:13: Source: Flickr: Famed Buddhist Nalanda University & Monastery ruins, brick stupas, ransacked & destroyed by Turkic Muslim invaders under Bakhtiyar Khalji in 1193, the great library was so vast - reported to have burned for three months, Bihar, India, 1993: Author ...