Sunday, June 21, 2009

Nalanda University,Bihar




The Nalanda University Bill, 2010 17.  Nalanda will be center for world tourism particularly after revival of Nalanda University which is on full swing.  Nalanda University was the prime center of Buddhist learning in ancient India.  The Nalanda University is planned to be as in times past, a great seat of learning, scholarship, philosophy and statecraft.  the best  scholars of Nalanda University.

the same satisfaction as those greatest students of Nalanda University.  Nalanda is a stand alone international university unlike any other established in the country.  The Member  States welcomed the regional initiative for the revival of Nalanda University.  Nalanda archaeological museum is just opposite the entrance to the ruins of the university and houses.  Intercourse with India and Buddhists influence peaked during this period. The Nalanda University attracted the Chinese in large numbers.

An authentic report of the functioning of Nalanda University is seen in Hiuen Tsang's work on the subject.  Nalanda flourished until AD 1199, when it was looted and destroyed by the Turkish raider, Bakhtiar Khalji.  Another Indian who went to China in 627 a.d. was Prabhakaramitra, a Nalanda scholar.  The King invited Santarakshita, the High Priest of Nalanda and appointed him the High Priest of Tibet.  Nalanda is believed to have had a library with nine floors.

Nava Nalanda Mahavihara is devoted to study and research of Pali Literature and Buddhism.  Nalanda is connected by road to other parts of the state.  Defining further studies and to support the planning and development of the Nalanda campus and its environs.  He spent ten years in Nalanda and returned to C with 4000 Sanskrit manuscripts containing more than 50,000 slokhas.




The university received royal patronage of the great emperor Harshavardhana of Kannauj and also pala kings. Even Chanakya or Kautilya was once, a student of this university.It was a great centre of learning,students from foreign countries were also attracted to this university.This university was totally built in red clay bricks,Spread over an 14 hectares,It is a seat of knowledge for the world that the light of knowledge spread all over.Nalanda was an important centre of Pala sculptures and bronzes and has yielded seals and sealings of great historical significance.
The library was located in a nine storied building. Since the time of Buddha.
Education was provided free, as the University was supported by the revenue from surrounding villages, and by the benefactors such as the 8th century
king of Sumatra.

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