Nalanda Khandhar, Nalanda

It was the most important and famous centre of higher education in ancient Darba. Along with Hinayana Buddhism, students of other religions and from many countries used to study in this education centre of Mahayana Buddhism. The ruins of this great Buddhist university, discovered by Rahul near a village 88.5 km south-east of Patna and 11.5 km north of Rajgir in present-day Bihar state, give an idea of ​​its ancient splendour. Detailed information about this university is obtained from many epigraphs and the travelogues of Hiuen Tsang and Etsing, the Chinese travellers who came to study the history of Darbe in the seventh century. To teach 10,000 students here, 1000 were teachers. The famous Chinese traveler Hiuen Tsang spent an important year of his life here as a student and a teacher in the 7th century. The famous Buddhist Sariputra was born here.

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