Nice palace to visit. First university of Mahayana Buddhism. Nearly Xuan Zang Temple make by China Guy! Foreign Ticket so hight. 600 ruppe/person

It is historical place. Students must go there. This University is one of the first universities in the world. Many foreign people came here to gain knowledge. Fa Xian ( Chinese inhabitants) came here and wrote about this University. You will learn about harappan civilization by observing architecture described by guide. I prefer you should hire guide on entrance gate. He will describe everything in easy way. People believed that it had huge library. When khilji burn the library. It was burned till 6 months because of huge number of books . Even gatekeepers were very intelligent that he asked the three question for admission in this University. Very strict rules were obeyed by Students there. You must visit this place. Dont forget Take guide in entrance gate if you can to visit this place. 40 rupees is ticket there.

Must visit place . wanna know the real history of india, must visit nalanda university. Each and everything is mentioned on the board in front of library places and the places monks used to stay after long travels.

Founded in 427 CE, Nalanda is considered the world's first residential university, a sort of medieval Ivy League institution home to nine million books that attracted 10,000 students from across Eastern and Central Asia. They gathered here to learn medicine, logic, mathematics and – above all – Buddhist principles from some of the era's most revered scholars. As the Dalai Lama once stated: "The source of all the [Buddhist] knowledge we have, has come from Nalanda."

Visited Nalanda University earlier this month during the C20 conference. It was built during the Gupta period and operated from 427 CE until 1197 CE; and had a 10km long campus. It was one of the earliest Universities of the world which taught not just different schools of Buddhist philosophies but also metaphysics, logic, maths, grammar, astronomy and medicine. The Nalanda library housed over nine million books and attracted 10,000 students from around the world. There is documented evidence that students from Korea, Japan, China, Tibet, Indonesia, Persia and Turkey used to live and study in Nalanda University. Eventually Muslim invader Mohammad Bakhtiyar Khilji, destroyed the University by burning it down. They say there were so many books in the library that it burnt for three months. The visit here brought upon a sense of disappointment and sadness to see the state it is in, but eventually smiling because I am glad that I belong to a civilisation which has such a big legacy of academic excellence. Even more happy that I ended up visiting and taking inspiration and motivation from it. And happiness just doubles given that I am a teacher myself and was honoured to trace up my roots to Nalanda

Nalanda University is a public central university located in Nalanda district's Rajgir in the state of Bihar, India. It is designated as an Institute of National Importance and excellence. The international university supported by 18 member countries was established by an Act of the Indian Parliament in 2010.

Nalanda was an acclaimed Mahavihara, a large Buddhist monastery in the ancient kingdom of Magadha (modern-day Bihar) in India. The site is located about 95 kilometres southeast of Patna near the town of Bihar Sharif, and was a centre of learning from the fifth century CE to1200 CE. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Founded in 5th Century AD by Kumargupta, huge monastic-educational establishment. The ruins did disturb me, thinking of tremendous loss to the world.