"The Nalanda scholars had a vision, extraordinary for those times, of a global spiritual union. But these teachings we…"

"The Mussalman invaders sacked the Buddhist universities of Nalanda, Vikramshila, Jagaddala, Odantapuri to name only a…"

"From his Guru the student might pass, about the age of sixteen, to one of the great universities that were the glory …"

"The history of the end of Nalanda, hence, is, in a sense, the history of the extinction of Buddhism from the land of …"

"After more than seven hundred years of successful teaching, Nalanda was destroyed in the 1190s by invading armies fro…"

"By the time the first European university was established in Bologna in 1088, Nalanda had been providing higher educa…"

"‘In the 7th century of the Christian era,’ Vincent Smith wrote, ‘the Nalanda establishment undoubtedly was the most i…"

"The university was the centre of Mahayana learning, of course – so much so that, reviewing its significance, Vincent …"

"‘The mine of learning, honoured Nalanda’ – that is how the sixteenth-seventeenth century Tibetan historian, Taranath,…"

"The whole establishment is surrounded by a brick wall, which encloses the entire convent from without. One gate opens…"