Nalanda - World's oldest university recreated

[Nagraj]

To be honest University of taxila was the oldest university in world.

 

[W.G.Ewald]

To be honest University of taxila was the oldest university in world.

Taxila (ancient city, Pakistan) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia

 

[LurkerBaba]

Who decided to put that clown in charge? No wonder Kalam walked out.

Check out the complete list of members in the governing board !

Amartya Sen
Sugata Bose
Meghnad Desai

The Nalanda University

Most of the Indian guys aren't even Indian citizens. Bunch of idiots !

 

[The Messiah]

Desai is the most annoying out of the lot by far!

 

[roma]

I seriously don't understand Chinese strategy once they offer aid and once they offer helicopters something is seriously going on

they way i see it is that china is doing very well economically and can in sense afford to " throw money around " ..... so in this plausible project in which they invoke all the old buddhist unity, they offer to " help" this buddhist university the alma mater of teh buddhist world !! ............ and in a sense they really are putting real money in ....after all it is not monopoly money and you can see, feel and EXPERIENCE the actual development and the smiles and the friendship, ahhhh the music coming courtesy of our brotherly china .......

- and all that BIG music and light MEDIA SHOW and camaraderie and friendship and asian-ness etc etc and yess..... bhai-bhai ( using different words of course - cant afford to bring back those '62 memories ) and great acadfemic ellows like Meghad Desai ...wow HIs Lordship and oooh my goot ....professor Dr NObel Amartiya Sen Nobel prize no less ....... abs they are all singing the praises of india china japan friendship whooooo

and all that gets to obscure the fact that they are also developing military strategies and hardware at the same time and quietly unnoticeably moving troops in a most indirect way and strange tank movements - not to the border , but it seems to railway stations ? how strange and donty worry ! those movements were to detect ....UFO's.....yes UFO's whooooooo whoooo but ahhhhhhh the university ahhhhh .....Nalanda ohhhhhhh bihar is now developed and ohhhhh buddhism indian , the home of buddhism - ohhhh mother india , mother of buddhism

- so you loosen you drive , loosen your sense of emergency , loosen your once single-minded view of who is the enemy .....why surely it cant be the people who donated such beautiful things to Mother Nalanda ? ohhhh how can you be so small minded to even think that ? ........

and they when they think y ou are distracted enough , then they hit softly militarily ooohh sooo softly that it wont even hurt , but as it will only be in piecemeal they will say well we only took back what was ours, and they will still continue to help fund nalanda etc and they will treat the prosoners of war so humanitarian .....why their stay in the pow camp was more of a guest hotel and they willl tell them you know zhangnan ( arunachal ) is really chinese territory

,,,,so we are only taking our land back why those dastardly brits took our chinese land and FORCED india ( against their will ) to have it , so now we are great friends india china friendship Nalanda buddhist eternal friends ......very clever deceptive game of not being outright enemy but in an oblique way

.....that's my take .

 

[pmaitra]

Nitish Kumar took a good decision regarding opening Nalanda university but made a wrong choice in appointing rothschild son-in-law to the post of Chancellor. He should remove him and appoint somebody competent.

Good to know.

Smart move in a way that Amartya Sen can teach flawed economics based on Fiat Money, Fractional Lending, Quantitative Easing, and train a bunch of mutually disagreeing, but dancing-to-the-banker's-tune, baby economists, who can further enrich usurious Rothchilds and their ilk.

 

[pmaitra]

AMARTYA SEN GETS NOBEL PRIZE FOR WHITEWASHING CHURCHILLS INDIAN HOLOCAUST

MUST READ, especially if you are Nitish Kumar.

 

[Das ka das]

AMARTYA SEN GETS NOBEL PRIZE FOR WHITEWASHING CHURCHILLS INDIAN HOLOCAUST

MUST READ, especially if you are Nitish Kumar.

Are the Bhodrolok's happy with their most (in)famous son?

 

[pmaitra]

Are the Bhodrolok's happy with their most (in)famous son?

First ask yourself whether you are happy.

Then ask yourself whether you are bhadra or abhadra, and you will get a hint of the answer to your question.

 

[Apollyon]

Oldest university on earth is reborn after 800 years

Oldest university on earth is reborn after 800 years

During the six centuries of its storied existence, there was nothing else quite like Nalanda University. Probably the first-ever large educational establishment, the college – in what is now eastern India – even counted the Buddha among its visitors and alumni. At its height, it had 10,000 students, 2,000 staff and strove for both understanding and academic excellence. Today, this much-celebrated centre of Buddhist learning is in ruins.

After a period during which the influence and importance of Buddhism in India declined, the university was sacked in 1193 by a Turkic general, apparently incensed that its library may not have contained a copy of the Koran. The fire is said to have burned and smouldered for several months.

Now this famed establishment of philosophy, mathematics, language and even public health is poised to be revived. A beguiling and ambitious plan to establish an international university with the same overarching vision as Nalanda – and located alongside its physical ruins – has been spearheaded by a team of international experts and leaders, among them the Nobel-winning economist Amartya Sen. This week, legislation that will enable the building of the university to proceed is to be placed before the Indian parliament.

"At its peak it offered an enormous number of subjects in the Buddhist tradition, in a similar way that Oxford [offered] in the Christian tradition – Sanskrit, medicine, public health and economics," Mr Sen said yesterday in Delhi.

"It was destroyed in a war. It was [at] just the same time that Oxford was being established. It has a fairly extraordinary history – Cambridge had not yet been born." He added, with confidence: "Building will start as soon as the bill passes."

The plan to resurrect Nalanda – in the state of Bihar – and establish a facility prestigious enough to attract the best students from across Asia and beyond, was apparently first voiced in the 1990s. But the idea received more widespread attention in 2006 when the then Indian president, APJ Abdul Kalam set about establishing an international "mentoring panel". Members of the panel, chaired by Mr Sen, include Singapore's foreign minister, George Yeo, historian Sugata Bose, Lord Desai and Chinese academic Wang Banwei.

A key challenge for the group is to raise sufficient funds for the university. It has been estimated that $500m will be required to build the new facility, with a further $500m needed to sufficiently improve the surrounding infrastructure. The group is looking for donations from governments, private individuals and religious groups. The governments of both Singapore and India have apparently already given some financial commitments.

Mr Sen said the new Nalanda project, whose ancestor easily predated both the University of Al Karaouine in Fez, Morocco – founded in 859 AD and considered the world's oldest, continually-operating university, and Cairo's Al Azhar University (975 AD), had already attracted widespread attention from prestigious institutions. The universities of Oxford, Harvard, Yale, Paris and Bologna had all been enthusiastic about possible collaboration.

Some commentators believe a crucial impact of the establishment of a new international university in India would be the boost it gave to higher education across Asia. A recent survey of universities by the US News and World Report magazine listed just three Asian institutions – University of Tokyo, University of Hong Kong and Kyoto University – among the world's top 25.

Writing when plans for Nalanda were first announced, Jeffery Garten, a professor in international business and trade at the Yale School of Management, said in the New York Times: "The new Nalanda should try to recapture the global connectedness of the old one. All of today's great institutions of higher learning are straining to become more international... but Asian universities are way behind." He added: "A new Nalanda could set a benchmark for mixing nationalities and culture, for injecting energy into global subject. Nalanda was a Buddhist university but it was remarkably open to many interpretations of that religion. Today, it could... be an institution devoted to global religious reconciliation."

As Mr Garten pointed out, the new university will have much to live up to. The original, located close to the border with what is now Nepal, was said to have been an architectural masterpiece, featuring 10 temples, a nine-storey library where monks copied books by hand, lakes, parks and student accommodation. Its students came from Korea, Japan, China, Persia, Tibet and Turkey, as well as from across India. The 7th Century Chinese pilgrim, Xuanzang, visited Nalanda and wrote detailed accounts of what he saw, describing how towers, pavilions and temples appeared to "soar above the mists in the sky [so that monks in their rooms] might witness the birth of the winds and clouds".

Yet the project is not without controversy. Mr Sen was yesterday asked about reports that claimed the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan Buddhist leader who has lived for more than 50 years in the Indian town of Dharamsala, had been deliberately omitted from the project to avoid antagonising potential Chinese investors and officials. He replied: "He is heading a religion. Being religiously active may not be the same as [being] appropriate for religious studies."

The Indian authorities believe the establishment of the college would act as a global reminder of the nation's history as a centre of learning and culture. Politician Nand Kishore Singh, who sits on the country's influential federal planning commission and who is also a member of Nalanda's steering group, said legislation would be placed before the parliament this week. He added: "I think there is strong bi-partisan support."

Oldest university on earth is reborn after 800 years - Asia - World - The Independent

 

[dhananjay1]

Re: Oldest university on earth is reborn after 800 years

Comi retards like Amartya Sen would preach Marxist nonsense under the guise of 'reviving' Nalanda university. May be they will make it another version of JNU. These hypocrite can't even utter the truth that the original institution was destroyed by Jihadis. Oh no, it was destroyed by a 'Turk' who was angry because the library didn't have a copy of Koran.

 

[MAYURA]

These hypocrite can't even utter the truth that the original institution was destroyed by Jihadis. Oh no, it was destroyed by a 'Turk' who was angry because the library didn't have a copy of Koran.

Actually, commies tell us that bakhtiyar khilji was smashing " feudal " and frozen assets holding old building built on exploitation of toiling masses.

 

[MAYURA]

it is well known that Nalnda was originally built in 420 ad by kumargupta and since then 1600 years have passed with light year changes in technology.

the unoversity was sacked in 1197 and what we see is its ruins but even then that ruined building is much more attractive than the huts the likes of Ameartya sen are creating in nalanda.

when i looked at buildings of proposed nalanda university, i was agape at such pathetic state.


India can never reattain its past glory until and unless commies like Amartya sen are respected.

 

[cloud]

Actually I believe it should have atleast 50% seat should be allotted for other all other nations. Diversity does wonders in the life of students.

 

[cloud]

gurr.. why do I not get the option to edit my posts..

 

[Defenceindia2010]

Dump the idea, we do not need another university to create individuals with inferiority complex towards the west and Hindu apologists. The nation has paid heavily due to these ''Idiollectual'' which are produced by JNU and ''Idioversitys'' like it.

 

[MAYURA]

Dump the idea, we do not need another university to create individuals with inferiority complex towards the west and Hindu apologists. The nation has paid heavily due to these ''Idiollectual'' which are produced by JNU and ''Idioversitys'' like it.

Correct and it seems that it will be so because of retardness of commies.


actually, not having nalanda is better than a nalanda with sveta maleccha indologists( who are moralless spies masquerading as historians ) , chinese historians who will start attacking hinduism ( the defense experts of china are men with common sense and they have opined that it is hinduism that glues this nation ) to weaken us and japanese buddhists will subtly do the same with " Indian Sepoys " doing the rest work.



perhaps people do not realize the immense harm done by these indologists who have raped our history.

 

[LurkerBaba]

Some good news

The government's dream Nalanda University project has run into trouble with Chancellor Amartya Sen threatening to resign after the finance ministry raised pointed queries on the financial management of this mega revival plan.
The crisis, which has been simmering for a while, is believed to have turned ugly just before general elections are to be announced.
....
The provocation for the crisis, sources said, was the huge expenditure being incurred on maintaining the governing body of the university, known earlier as the Nalanda Mentor Group, as well as the tax-free salaries to the tune of $80,000 dollars per year to some of the top functionaries of the university.
Faculty salary packages range around $50,000-55,000 per year.
Upset by these queries, Sen – who is part of the 12-member governing body – conveyed to the MEA at the highest levels that he would resign if such objections were not opposed and quashed, source said.

Amartya Sen threatens to quit Nalanda univ over funds queries | The Indian Express

 

[cobra commando]

1,000 Foreign Students Keen to Join Nalanda University

PATNA: More than 1,000 students from 40 countries have sought admission in Nalanda University. The university is scheduled to start its academic session from Sep 1 with two schools: School of Historical Sciences and School of Environment and Ecology, an official said Friday. The university has received application for admission from the US, Russia, England, Spain, Germany, Japan, Myanmar, Austria, Sri Lanka and West Asian and South East Asian countries. "This year only 20 students will be selected in each of two schools," the official said. Six faculty members each for the two schools have been appointed. They are from New Zealand, England, the US, Singapore and other countries. The university is set to come up on 446 acres of land at Rajgir, 10 km from the site of the ancient university in Nalanda, about 100 km southeast of Patna. The university will be fully residential, like the ancient Nalanda university. It will offer courses in science, philosophy and spirituality as well as social sciences.
1,000 Foreign Students Keen to Join Nalanda University - The New Indian Express

 

[thakur_ritesh]

Couple of observations.

With the line-up they have of the people at the top, one hopes this doesn't turn into refined form of another JNU having an international appeal, the last thing it should but the lead table unfortunately isn't quite inspiring enough.

The university should be given absolute autonomy, if you have to raise the stakes here by setting a precedence and which I believe should be emulated across the spectrum, you better let them have their way rather than ruin which happens to be a forte of the government run agencies with constant bureaucratic and political interference.

Lastly, and I am surprised this has not been corrected, China made a donation of a million dollars and not a billion as reported in the OP.