How the world's oldest university was lost for 800 years | BBC News India 

The amount of knowledge, skills and artefacts lost is just unfathomable.

Nalanda was amazing to visit. Seeing is believing . Vikramshila was great as well. Worthwhile destinations

Thanks to the Chinese Pilgrim, Xuanzang and Major General Sir Alexander Cunningham for documenting and excavating this most treasured historical ancient monastery/university, respectively. Had it not been for Tripitaka Master Xuanzang's influential book 'The Great Tang Records on the Western Regions', which Sir Alexander Cunningham read and used to discover and unearth Nalanda monastery/university, this place would have been lost to the world, and the present-day people in India wouldn't have known any better.

Had visited it 27 yrs back ❤👍🏻

A Big Thank you to the Creative Team at BBC NI for this video. The contents are so inspiring and spiritually satisfying I am elated to know. A "must visit" place while in India. I have added Nalanda University to my travel itinerary "101 Sacred Places Of Ancient India To Visit Today". Keep up the good work BBCNI. Namaste and Best Wishes from Athens, Greece. 🙏🌻

Bakhtiyar khilji was no less dn a demon.This ideology justifies less education & more terrorism in muslims.. Nywz, Truth can never get destroyed!

Nalanda University an epitmy of TIME whose reference goes back to the time even before 329BC the time of Alexzandra Macedonia invaded India, Most prolific student of Nalanda Uni was Vishnu Gupta who later on become lecturer strategist, philosopher, economist, jurist, and royal advisor who authored the ancient Indian political treatise, the Arthashastra in Tuxshila Uni currently located in Pakistan, Rawalpindi; the chief architect of ejecting Alexazandra's forces from the India and ultimately to his death. A Chinese traveler Xuanzang detailed in his travel log Nalanda's a rich heritage and world-class standard education system which span into the vast complex, most profound impact in his Chronicles until 1200 AD a Terrorist known Khilji who destroyed the Nalanda Complex and raised to the ground, loss of very unique and invaluable Library it is been recorded almost 40 days continues to burn the Fire to consume the library and many of the teacher put to the sword due to their uncompromising stance as Buddhist monks. As such travesty and knowledge withered away in the midst of TIME, lost until 1800AD British made an effort to re-excavate the region, But then again artifact found during the excavation was quitely stolen by its high officials of British civil service personnel, and those officially recorded was exported to British Library in London and few private holders who direct responsible for the dig. During the excavation, a clay pot found as a Time capsule at the Time of King Ashoka, who was buried; Silver, Gold, Copper, leafs have completely vanished from the site to later on to be found in Yorkshire based a private collector.

Highly enlightening one.More such programms are requested from BBC

Nalanda University was a centre of Hindu - Buddhist - jains. Vedas and Upanishads were also stored and taught in that university. Yoga, ayurveda was also taught. Hindu Buddhist Jain both used to teach and learn here.

Nalanda and Takshila are both spectacular but unfortunately the latter is in a way worse condition

Thanks BBC NEWS for this kind of video

Thanks BBC News India 🙏

Anpadh kya jane kitabo ki value unhe to bas aasmani kitab se matlab hai. Hamare gyan or hamare itihas ko na kabhi khatm kar paye na kar payege

Epitome of Excellence 🙏

Destroyed by curse on earth

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Yes we need to bring this back to life and practice use, starting with learning who created who distorted it and what ideology was the cause of the this loss! How to make sure such unfortunate events don’t happen again! While it most recently was repeated in France by burning the oldest library!

The inscription @5.02 is a Tibetan script.

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founded around 500ce. oldest?!?

Namo buddha. Buddhism remained popular in Indian Sub continent region for more than 1000 years. It spread across the world. Buddhist built more than 70 universities. Buddhist discovered about consciousness, meditation, Yoga, Ayurveda, Astrology and so on. Later Adi Shankaracharya from 8th century copied Nagarjuna's Mahayana Buddhism philosophy. And popularised Shiva and Geeta. After Mughal reign ended brahmins began to capture Buddhist temple and conversion of buddhist temple to hindu started. Till date Casteism and superstition is rooted in Indian Society.

Who destroyed it btw

The three oldest universities in the world are, in order: Al-Zaytouna University in Tunisia, Kairouan University in Morocco, Al-Azhar University in Egypt, and they are still scientific edifices in various fields, especially Al-Azhar University.

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Thanks to islam and its ideology for brining such a magnificent university to ground islam wil always hold back yhe development of india

Bakhtiyar khilji kmkb 🙂

Religion of peace. So sorry.

You are only showing Buddhist Universities in India. Is there any hindu or sanatan universities in India?

Thank you Britain for surveying it in the 19th Century and being responsible for the archeological excavations and restoration!

Now you can see how islam and its dogs are denger to the world

It is a Buddhist center. Not an university.