"One of the oldest universities of learning in India, NU located around 80 km from Patna flourished from the fourth century AD to about the 12th century. Back in those times, the university attracted scholars from China, Tibet, Greece before it was destroyed by Bakhtiyar Khilji’s army in 1193.
And while this fact may surprise you, it is believed that the library of NU was so vast that it continued to burn for close to three months after invaders destroyed and set fire to it.
It is about six years ago that countries including Japan, Singapore and China besides India proposed a plan to restore and revive the ancient site as Nalanda International University."
The New Nalanda University:
NU organised an architectural design competition to choose the master plan for the proposed university campus to be spread across 455 acres where the expert jury comprised four international architects - former chief town planner for Singapore Dr Liu Thai Ker, Japan’s Waseda University’s professor Osamu Ishiyama, Beijing’s Tsinghua University’s Professor Li Xiaodong and Ahmedabad’s CEPT University’s professor Neelkanth Chhaya...
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