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The Buddhist University That Burned: Nalanda and Bengal's Lost Knowledge
Long before Oxford or Bologna, Nalanda was the ancient world's greatest university — a sprawling monastery-city where thousands of monks from China, Korea, Tibet, and Southeast Asia studied logic, medicine, and philosophy alongside local scholars from Bengal and Bihar. This episode traces the deep connections between Nalanda and Bengal's Pala dynasty, who patronized the university for four centuries. We explore how Bengal's Buddhist kings, especially Dharmapala and Devapala, transformed Nalanda into a global center of learning, funding libraries that housed millions of…
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