"NALANDA UNIVERSITY" UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE
It was an ancient India's higher education centre which is in the state of Bihar. It was located 95 kilo meter southeast of Patna. near the city of Bihar Sharif, it was centre learning from 5th century to 12th century. This university was founded by the Gupta Dynasty, Kumar Gupta first, his successor also got support. all the Dynasties who came after this gave their support. Different region of the country and rulers also gave their support to improve it. This university was made of red stone. This university is spread over 12 hectare area, the university is surrounded by the huge walls.
It was an ancient India's higher education centre which is in the state of Bihar. It was located 95 kilo meter southeast of Patna. near the city of Bihar Sharif, it was centre learning from 5th century to 12th century. This university was founded by the Gupta Dynasty, Kumar Gupta first, his successor also got support. all the Dynasties who came after this gave their support. Different region of the country and rulers also gave their support to improve it. This university was made of red stone. This university is spread over 12 hectare area, the university is surrounded by the huge walls.
It is a UNESCO World heritage site, It is now a famous and delightful tourist destination. A large number of people come to visit, more than the people of the Buddhist community.
This university was famous all over the world and students from many countries used to receive education. It was not taught Buddhism but also education of other religions. There were 10,000 students in this university and those student were given education by 2000 teacher.
Chinese traveller Xuanzang came in the 7 century and studies culture and philosophy for many years
and collected Buddhist texts.When he was came, there were 10,000 students here and there were 1510 teachers, who used to educate all those students. His book gives information about this university. He has written about the time spend in India and nalanda university in his book. He has written about how he spend his whole day with his friends in the field of education and unless the student resolved their problem, they used to continue reading. It was a famous university all over the world, where students used to get education from country and abroad. students from countries such as China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Tibet etc. used to come here. You can give an idea of how famous university it was all over the world.
It was the university where the students used to stay there for education and there were 300 rooms for the students. Clothing, education, food, treatment etc. were given free of coast to the student here, they did not have to spend anything. 200 villages were Donated to the university on behalf of the state and whatever donations received from every house of the village were given to the those students and they used to meet their needs only with donations. At that time there was a student association. Those students had a stone bed for sleeping. Near to the bed they keep luggage of their needs like books and a lamp. there was a well in the courtyard of drinking water.
There was a head of the nalanda mahavihara university, who was chosen by the monk there who was called vice-chancellor or head of teacher. There were two committees who advised the vice-chancellor and vice-chancellor used to consult the two committees to arranged things for the university. One of the two committees handle the related work of education and course and second committee would handle the financial system and administration of the university. Dharmapal, Chandrapal, and gunamati were all the famous teachers of the university. Teacher were also kept in three categories first class, second class and third class, these categories were based on their merit.
So far,13 monasteries have been founded in the excavation and there are more chance of monasteries. Apart from monasteries, all the monasteries was built in the queue and stupa and temple in the front of monasteries was there. 10 Temple, 8 huge Buildings, study room, many prayer room are there in which statue of lord Buddha placed and many garden is also found there. Temple number 3 is largest Temple here, these Temple surrounded by the different size of stupa, on which there are sculptures in lord Buddha's different postures
The university of Nalanda had a large library with more than 3 lakh books are there and Books of all topics were available here. and all the student used to read from these books. In 1199, Bakhtiyar khilji along with his army invaded Nalanda university and Demolished and burned it and university ended this way.
In 1951 "NAVE NALANDA MAHAVIHAR", Established by the Bihar government near nalanda university. The present campus of mahavihara is some 100 kilo meter from the melropoils. and under Rajendra Prasad to revive the ancient seat of learning in nalanda. it is became a Deemed university in 2006. It was established with the aim of developing the ancient Indian system of education. To make this university campus, 455 acres of land and 2727 crores money was given, apart from this, it has received financial support from other countries such as Singapore, Thailand, Australia etc. Nave Naalanda mahavihara was founded to develop as a centre of higher studies in pali and Buddhism along the lines of ancient Nalanda Mahavihara.
JAGDISH KASHYAP :-The monk Jagdish Kashyap on his request Nave Nalanda Mahavihara was once again created by the government of Bihar in 1951 and he was the founder-director of Nave nalanda mahavihara.
Nalanda Archaeological Museum :- The Indian Archaeological department has open a museum here in 1917. In this museum the ancient things if Nalanda university are seen which are still found during excavation. There was a lot of excitement during the excavation, out of which 349 items are kept in the museum.
Nalanda multimedia museum :- Here is nalanda multimedia museum which provides information about Nalanda university with the help of 3D Animation.
There was a head of the nalanda mahavihara university, who was chosen by the monk there who was called vice-chancellor or head of teacher. There were two committees who advised the vice-chancellor and vice-chancellor used to consult the two committees to arranged things for the university. One of the two committees handle the related work of education and course and second committee would handle the financial system and administration of the university. Dharmapal, Chandrapal, and gunamati were all the famous teachers of the university. Teacher were also kept in three categories first class, second class and third class, these categories were based on their merit.So far,13 monasteries have been founded in the excavation and there are more chance of monasteries. Apart from monasteries, all the monasteries was built in the queue and stupa and temple in the front of monasteries was there. 10 Temple, 8 huge Buildings, study room, many prayer room are there in which statue of lord Buddha placed and many garden is also found there. Temple number 3 is largest Temple here, these Temple surrounded by the different size of stupa, on which there are sculptures in lord Buddha's different postures
The university of Nalanda had a large library with more than 3 lakh books are there and Books of all topics were available here. and all the student used to read from these books. In 1199, Bakhtiyar khilji along with his army invaded Nalanda university and Demolished and burned it and university ended this way.JAGDISH KASHYAP :-The monk Jagdish Kashyap on his request Nave Nalanda Mahavihara was once again created by the government of Bihar in 1951 and he was the founder-director of Nave nalanda mahavihara.
Nalanda Archaeological Museum :- The Indian Archaeological department has open a museum here in 1917. In this museum the ancient things if Nalanda university are seen which are still found during excavation. There was a lot of excitement during the excavation, out of which 349 items are kept in the museum.
Nalanda multimedia museum :- Here is nalanda multimedia museum which provides information about Nalanda university with the help of 3D Animation.
