A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Nalanda was one of the most praised intellectual circles of the ancient world.
It was an active center of education located about 88 km southeast of Patna in Bihar, northeastern India, and not far from what is today the southern border of Nepal.
Scholars came from all over the world to study philosophy, medicine, astronomy, and other subjects. Credit: - CC BY-SA 2.5
Based on historical sources, we can say that the Nalanda University - supported by the Hindu Gupta rulers, Buddhist emperors like Harshavardhana, as well as the later Pala Emperors - had a long and celebrated life that lasted almost continually for 800 years from the 5th to the 12th century AD.
By the time the first European university was established in Bologna in 1088, Nalanda had been providing higher education to thousands of students from Asian countries for more than six hundred years.
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