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"Nalanda is not just a name, it is an identity and respect. Nalanda is a value and mantra...fire can burn books, but it can't destroy knowledge."
Referred to as the medieval Ivy League, the Nalanda Mahavihar came up 500 years before Oxford University and was the seat of knowledge of the known world, where over 11,000 students from across the globe came for studies.
Not many institutions reached the glory that the Mahavihar in Magadh attained. To put it in context, the time when Nalanda attracted students and teachers from the world over, Europe, the home of Oxford and Cambridge, was still in the shadows of the Dark Ages.
Nalanda, which was visited by scholars from the world over, according to archaeologist A Ghosh, "acquired a celebrity spread all over the east as a centre of Buddhist theology and educational activities".