Nalanda was an acclaimed Mahavihara, a large Buddhist monastery in the ancient kingdom of Magadha (modern-day Bihar) in India. The highly formalized methods of Vedic learning helped inspire the establishment of large teaching institutions such as Taxila, Nalanda, and Vikramashila which are often characterised as India’s early universities. Nalanda flourished under the patronage of the Gupta Empire in the 5th and 6th centuries and later under Harsha, the emperor of Kannauj and remained a centre of learning from the fifth century CE to cierca 1200 CE. Nalanda was very likely ransacked and destroyed by an army of the Muslim Mamluk Dynasty under Bakhtiyar Khilji circa 1200 CE. Systematic excavations commenced in 1915 which unearthed eleven monasteries and six brick temples neatly arranged on 12 hectares area.
Unesco: Archaeological Site of Nalanda Mahavihara at Nalanda, Bihar
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Date: Oct 19
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