NALANDA

nəlänˈdə, Buddhist monastic center in what is now Baragaon, Bihar state, E central India. Often referred to as a university, Nalanda was, from the 4th to the 12 cent. a.d., the most renowned center of Buddhist learning in India. There are extensive ruins of stupas, monasteries, and temples.

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books on: Nalanda  - 228 results

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Education in Ancient India
Book by Hartmut Sgharfe; Brill, 2002
Subjects: Education, Ancient--India, Education--India--History
...these universities for a long time was Nalanda 99 at modern Badgaon in Bihar, 100 near...Rajagrha) as its suburb. 101 The village of Nalanda played a role in early Buddhism as well...rain-retreats (at Rajagrha and nearby Nalanda). 102 There also was an brahmin agrahara...
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Buddhist Monks and Monasteries of India: Their History and Their Contribution to Indian Culture
Book by Sukumar Dutt; George Allen & Unwin, 1962
Subjects: Monasticism And Religious Orders, Buddhist
Nalanda of the voluminous text of the A t asahasrika...Nepalese era , in the colophon of which Nalanda Mahavihara is mentioned as the place where...discovered outside Indian borders. 2 v Nalanda in the Pala Age Nalanda was perhaps the...
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Art Shrines of Ancient India
Book by V. K. Subramanian; Abhinav, 2003
Subjects: Archaeology--India, Temples, Buddhist--India, Temples, Hindu--India
...So, as soon as ?? ??? I reached the ruins at Nalanda, travelling 65 miles by road from Gaya, the famous...asked the tourist guide the usual question: Why is Nalanda called Nalanda? He could give me no answer. I checked with the...
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Xuanzang: A Buddhist Pilgrim on the Silk Road
Book by Sally Hovey Wriggins; Westview Press, 1996
Subjects: Priests, Buddhist--China--Biography
Chapter 7 1. C. S. Upasak, Nalanda: Past and Present Bihar: Nava Nalanda Mahavihara, 1977 , p. 13. Today the Nalanda tradition is being revived. An institute of postgraduate Pali and Buddhist studies, established at Nalanda in 1951...
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Religious Reading: The Place of Reading in the Practice of Religion
Book by Paul J. Griffiths; Oxford University Press, 1999
Subjects: Books And Reading--Africa, North, Books And Reading--India, Books And Reading--Religious Aspects--Buddhism, Books And Reading--Religious Aspects--Christianity, Books And Reading--Religious Aspects--Comparative Studies
...Dutt and Joshi are the most useful. On Nalanda specifically there is still some use in Hasmukh D. Sankalia , The University of Nalanda Madras, 1934 . 19. Li Rongxi, transl...of Yijings travels in the vicinity of Nalanda are in Takakusu Junjiro, transl., A...
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journal articles on: Nalanda  - 34 results

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The Effect of Community-Based Reproductive Health Communication Interventions on Contraceptive Use among Young Married Couples in Bihar, India
Journal article by Elkan E. Daniel, Rekha Masilamani, Mizanur Rahman; International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, Vol. 34, 2008
Subjects: Bihar, India (State)--Health aspects, Contraceptives--Usage, Early intervention--Health aspects, Early intervention--Methods, Married people--Health aspects
...districts) of three of Bihars districts: Nalanda, Nawada and Patna. These 19 blocks have...seven of the intervention cluster were in Nalanda, seven in Nawada and five in Patna...Implementation began in July 2002 in Nalanda, in October 2002 in Nawada and in April...
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Esoteric Buddhism in Southeast Asia in the Light of Recent Scholarship
Journal article by Hiram Woodward; Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 35, 2004
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Indian esoteric Buddhism: A social history of the Tantric movement (Book)--Book reviews
...Javanese prince, established a monastery at Nalanda in India, according to an inscription...inscribed on a small memorial stone stupa at Nalanda, dating from about the ninth century...were widespread and long established at Nalanda or else the foundation of Balaputras monastery...
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Who Inspired Panini? Reconstructing the Hindu and Buddhist Counter-Claims
Journal article by Madhav M. Deshpande; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 117, 1997
Subjects: Buddhism--History, Grammar, Comparative and general--Religious aspects, Hinduism--History, Historical linguistics--Analysis, Indian literature--Religious aspects
...priests belonging to the convent (of Nalanda) or strangers (residing therein) always...Beal (1884:110, n. 55) says: "Now Nalanda was especially a place of study both for...the Simhala island. . . . He went to Nalanda, the mine of learning. . . . The teacher...
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The Medieval Tamil-Language Inscriptions in Southeast Asia and China
Journal article by Jan Wisseman Christie; Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 29, 1998
Subjects: India--History, Inscriptions--Analysis, Southeast Asia--History, Tamils--Languages
...east, and the great Buddhist centre of Nalanda drew pilgrims and investment from a number...Society, 1962), pp. 20-24. 37 The Nalanda inscription, commissioned in about 860...Sailendra ruler of Java - H. Shastri, "The Nalanda Copper-plate of Devapaladeva", Epigraphia...
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Doing Business for the Lord: Lending on Interest and Written Loan Contracts in the Mulasarvastivada-Vinaya
Journal article by Gregory Schopen; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 114, 1994
Subjects: Buddhism--Moral and ethical aspects, India--Religious aspects, Monastic and religious life--Moral and ethical aspects
...monastic sites, Vaisali, Kasia, Kausambi, Nalanda, etc., sometimes in considerable numbers...This - rather than a romantic vision of Nalanda - appears to be what a Buddhist "monastery...India 31 (1969): 69-70; H. Sastri, Nalanda and Its Epigraphical Material (Delhi...
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magazine articles on: Nalanda  - 3 results

 
 
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Digital and Ebook Collections
Magazine article; Searcher, Vol. 16, January 2008
...scanning 1 million books in 2 years. The scanning machines (20-plus) are in China and India. Nalanda E-text Conversion Project http://www.nalanda.nitc.ac.in/resources/english/etext-project This project aims to convert public...
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Enraged by Madonna and Nicole
Magazine article by Salil Tripathi; New Statesman, Vol. 128, September 20, 1999
Subjects: Eyes Wide Shut (Motion picture)--Public opinion, Motion pictures--Public opinion
...horrors from invaders. "The defaced Shiva Lingas at Hinglaj (Baluchistan) and Peshawar, the universities at Takshshila and Nalanda, thousands of demolished temples scattered all over India, are mute witnesses to the complacency of our own ancestors who...
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What Are Universities For?
Magazine article by Chris Arthur; Contemporary Review, Vol. 285, September 2004
Subjects: Arthur, Chris--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Universities and colleges--Education, Universities and colleges--Services, Universities and colleges--United States
...it may be to debate the claims to primacy of Oxford and Bologna (both eclipsed in ancientness, of course, by Al-Ahzar, Nalanda, and Taxila), looking for a point of historical origin tends likewise to obscure the sense of urgency that should attend...


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newspaper articles on: Nalanda  - 1 result

 
 
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Your Maharaja's Carriage Awaits; Mihir Bose Is Treated like Royalty aboard an Opulent 'Express' Train That Creeps through the Heart of Sacred India
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), January 16, 2011
...culture. Beginning in Indias holy land of Nalanda, Sarnath and Bodhgaya, it promised boat...sunlit world going by. Our first stop was Nalanda, which dates back to the 3rd Century...Century when ended by a Muslim invasion. Nalanda might have remained a ruin but for the...


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encyclopedia articles on: Nalanda  - 5 results

 
 
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Nalanda
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
NALANDA n lan d , Buddhist monastic center in what is now Baragaon, Bihar state, E central India. Often referred to as a university, Nalanda was, from the 4th to the 12 cent. a.d., the most renowned center of...
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Indian Art and Architecture
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Sena dynasties (730 1197) were Hindu, significant Buddhist art was created. Images in bronze and in hard black stone from Nalanda and elsewhere reveal a development of the Gupta manner, with extensive attention to ornamental details. Architecture and...
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HsÜan-Tsang
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...and studying. Between 629 and 645 he made a pilgrimage to India in search of authentic scriptures. He studied at Taxila and Nalanda , the most celebrated center of Buddhist learning in India, and also visited Kashmir and the major Buddhist holy places...
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Madhyamika
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...or nihilism. The school was founded by Nagarjuna (2d cent. a.d.) who came from S India to the Buddhist university of Nalanda and entered into debate with other schools including the Hindu logic school, or Nyaya, and the Buddhist Abhidharma . About...
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Milarepa
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Kargyupa sect, the first being Milarepas guru Marpa (1012 97), who studied under Naropa, the Bengali master of Tantra, at Nalanda. Milarepas autobiography recounts how in his youth he practiced black magic in order to take revenge on relatives who deprived...


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