Nalanda University set to open in 2009 - Sunday Times
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The name Nalanda, which is Sanskrit for "giver of knowledge", befits an ancient Asian uni known as one of the first great uni in recorded history.
The sprawling uni - with among other things, a nine-storey library and 8 temples - was founded in the year 427 in prosperous Nalanda town in north-eastern Bihar state.
Devoted to Buddhism but also offering courses such as maths, anatomy and alchemy, it had nearly 2000 teachers and 10000 live-in students from china, japan, korea, persia, indonesia and turkey.
All ended in 1193 when turkish muslim invader bakhtiyar khilji sacked it so savagely that all that remain of it today are 3 temples and 14 monasteries.
India's government mooted the idea of resurrecting Nalanda Uni in the 1990s but it took the force of indian president A P J Kalam last year to get things really going.
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Nice... A depository for truth, knowledge and wisdom can never totally be destroyed.Originally posted by marcteng:The name Nalanda, which is Sanskrit for "giver of knowledge", befits an ancient Asian uni known as one of the first great uni in recorded history.
The sprawling uni - with among other things, a nine-storey library and 8 temples - was founded in the year 427 in prosperous Nalanda town in north-eastern Bihar state.
Devoted to Buddhism but also offering courses such as maths, anatomy and alchemy, it had nearly 2000 teachers and 10000 live-in students from china, japan, korea, persia, indonesia and turkey.
All ended in 1193 when turkish muslim invader bakhtiyar khilji sacked it so savagely that all that remain of it today are 3 temples and 14 monasteries.
India's government mooted the idea of resurrecting Nalanda Uni in the 1990s but it took the force of indian president A P J Kalam last year to get things really going.
Since Buddhism has all but died out in India, I am just surprised that the Indian government would go to these troubles to rebuild it. -
I hope Buddhism in India can grow back eventually.Originally posted by Beyond Religion:Nice... A depository for truth, knowledge and wisdom can never totally be destroyed.
Since Buddhism has all but died out in India, I am just surprised that the Indian government would go to these troubles to rebuild it. -
Hopefully, but Buddha prophesied that Buddhism will be no more soon rite?Originally posted by An Eternal Now:I hope Buddhism in India can grow back eventually.
Not only in India, but the world -
No, not soon.Originally posted by marcteng:Hopefully, but Buddha prophesied that Buddhism will be no more soon rite?
Not only in India, but the world
A few more thousand years. -
So glad that our govt is involved in this magnificient project.
Its abt time. Amituofo.