Cultural Horizons of India
author: Musashi Tachikawa
edition: 1990, International Academy of Indian Culture and Aditya Prakashan
pages: 2743
Topic: History
Nalanda
This chapter describes Nalanda located on page 121 of volume Volume 1 in the book Cultural Horizons of India compiled by Musashi Tachikawa. This book comprises 50 years of research material of Lokesh Chandra and represents a thorough study of the ancient culture of India, dealing with Tantra, Buddhism, Art, Archaeology, Language and Literature in 7 volumes.
The first volume presents the evolution of ideas that emerge from a broad spectrum of quests in languages such as Sanskrit, Greek and Latin (etc.) and further presents an introduction to Indonesian history, art and linguistics.
This book covers the research articles and general surveys of Professor Lokesh Chandra. For example, this chapter describes Nalanda. Everything together represents a huge collection of writings related to languages such as Sanskrit, Iranian, Sino-Japanese, Tibetan, Thai, Greek, Latin, Celtic, and Slavic..
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Settlement in Early Historic Ganga Plain [by Chirantani Das]
So a rough date of 425 CE can be given to the foundation of the Nalanda monastery. At any rate the date of its foundation cannot be pushed further than 415- 16 CE. Alexander Cunningham also conclusively stated that the foundation must have been laid after 410 and fixed the probable date of the monasteries and temples of Nalanda between 425 to 625 CE. From Kumaragupta’s time Nalanda enjoyed a consistent patronage by an unbroken line of monarchs which Sankalia calls the ‘royal rise’ of Nalanda....
Read full contents: Part 7 - Nalanda’s Rise of a Multi-functional Nodal Centre
Formal Education System in Ancient India [by Sushmita Nath]
So, it clearly indicates that, like Nalanda, Valabhi was also a famous seat of learning in Buddhist period. But it is our fault that we do not know too much about Valabhi as we do about Nalanda....
Read full contents: The 7th century Valabhi university
Jain Remains of Ancient Bengal [by Shubha Majumder]
At the age of seventy-two, Mahavira obtained Nirvana at Pava, modern Pavapuri, in Nalanda district of Bihar (Shah 1987: 3). (* 1) This was the 10th day of the month of margasirsha, when the moon was once more in conjunction with Uttaraphalguni, after permission from elders (Kalp-Sutra 1879: Mahavira left for the park of Nayasamda (Acaranga Sutra 1884: 199; KalpaSutra 1879: 259), which is situated near his home-town and he left his common life....
Read full contents: Life History of Tirthankara Mahavira
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[Volume 4 (summary)]
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