This one is another piece of significant new research. We hear a bit about all three northern Buddhist monasteries destroyed by Turkish Muslims at the end of the 12th century, but here we focus in on the greatest of all time, Nalanda.



In Buddha's day, it was a place, but not much more. Buddha spent time there, but at the peak of Mahayana and Vajrayana tradition, it was enormous and represented all classic traditions, with a preponderance of Mahayana and a later manifestation of Vajrayana. This city of scholars, Nalanda puts even modern universities to shame as centers of learning. The enormity is very crisply and aptly depicted by this work. The nine-story library, the six foot thick insulated walls and on and on in rapid succession are very excellently depicted in narration, visuals and detailed and organized intellectual content.