5 Shocking Facts You Didn’t Know About This 5th Century University

From the ruins of Nalanda

Radha Kapadia
Age of Awareness
Published in
5 min readDec 23, 2020

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The prestigious center of art and learning — Nalanda University was founded by Buddhist monks around 2,500 years ago making it one of the oldest university of the world. The term Nalanda was derived out of three Sanskrit words; Na, Alam, and Da. These put together would mean, “no stopping of the gift of

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Radha Kapadia
Age of Awareness

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