Pride of India - Nalanda University

Pride of India - Nalanda University

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Greetings on the importance of education, while highlighting the importance of education, says, "Knowledge is the third person's vision for the whole world." That is, knowledge is the third eye of man, which helps him to know the origin of all the elements. In ancient times Indians had complete faith that the wisdom developed by education is the real power of man. Therefore, Opened place of education in place of place, temples, monasteries, and viharas were developed as centers of learning. One of them, Nalanda Mahavihara, I was famous.

The remains of Nalanda Mahavihara in the village of Badgaon, 40 miles south of Bihar's capital, Patna, have been received. This place is just 8 km from Rajghat, the capital of ancient Magadha kingdom. According to the Chinese traveler Hueansang, the Gupta-dynasty ruler Kumaragupta expressed his devotion to the troupes of Buddhism and established a Buddhism here. The rule period of KumarGupta was 415-455E. It is possible that Kumaragupta has started making it in the last years of his rule. His son, Budhgupta, kept his father's work and built a second vihar in the south. Then his successors used to visit this place The work of establishment was continued. In the east, Baladitya in the east, Vajra Gupta, in the west and ruler of Pushybhuti dynasty, Harsh Na Built a monastery which was fully Tamben,

Nalanda Mahavihara was spread over a mile long and half a mile wide area. Bhavan Stupa and Vihar were built on the basis of scientific planning. Three hundred small rooms were constructed for the eight big room lectures in the university.This is a complete university brick Was surrounded by walls. A gate went towards the university, which contained eight other halls, which were located between Sangam and were separate. All classes, which used to hearing housing was four floors of.

Nalanda University had achieved international fame till the 6th century. It seems that Nalanda had received state protection during Harsh's time. Harsha donated the revenue of almost 100 villages to this festival. As a result, this university has become a university of international university. In this university, not only in the remote areas of India, teaching the students. They used to come to take, but also from China, Mongolia, Tibet, Korea, Central Asia etc. Countries were believed to be about ten thousand, if they believed in the description of Hwi-li. Here, special emphasis was given on quality education and The level of education was of very high quality. In this university, the students could get admission, who passed the entrance examination. The world was highly respected by the people,

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Despite the center of the Mahayana branch of Buddhism, the course of Nalanda University was highly developed. In addition to the texts of the eighteen sects of Buddhism, the books of Wade, Ordinances, Vocabulary, Yoga, Medicine, Technologies and Samkhya Darshan were included. Prakand scholars varied Each day gave lectures on topics, in which each school The presence of the person was compulsory. The faculty of this was very advanced. A thousand teachers were able to explain the meaning of twenty collections between the sources and the scriptures. There were ten teachers including the teacher of the religion who could explain fifty collections. Principal of this university, Shilabhadra, was the only person who was the knower of all the collections. Among the prominent teachers, the former Vice-Chancellor, Dharmapal, Santosh, Tithitrama Prabhakti, Jimitr, Gyanchandra etc. were prominent.

A large collection of texts and ancient manuscripts were preserved in the library of Nalanda University. It is said that the Chinese passenger Iitsing stayed here and prepared manuscripts of four hundred Sanskrit texts. A large library was set up for the convenience of students, whose The name was 'Dharmagaj'. This library was located in three buildings- Ratnasagar, Ratnodhid, and Ratnarnanj. Two councils were formed to run the administrative system smoothly - intellectual and administrative. The Vice Chancellor was above them. The expenditure of the university was to be donated by the donations given by the rulers and other donors. It is said that this university should be given two The land revenue of hundred villages was obtained.

Even after Harsh, the celebration of Nalanda Mahavihara remained intact for almost 12th century.After its popularity in the 9th century, Balapuradwara, ruler of Sumatra, built another monastery in Nalanda and donated five villages to his friend Pal Singh Devpal for its subsistence. In the wake of the development of Vikramshila as the center of another education by the rulers, Nalanda University Kirti became a bit darned. In the end of the 12th century, Muslim Akrata Bakhtiyar Khilji killed all the monks here, demolished the university and burnt the library and cleaned it. Thus this center of knowledge is always in the pages of time.