Nalanda as a Buddhist Center (c. 1025)

Name: Nalanda as a Buddhist Center (c. 1025)
Start: 1023
End: 1027

Type Event Region Bihar Time 1023–1027

Around 1025, the monastic complex of Nalanda in Bihar, under the patronage of Pala king Mahipala I, remained South Asia's foremost center of Buddhist…

Timeline

1023–1027Nalanda · BiharMahipala I continued the Pala tradition of donations to Nalanda; the monastery maintained a large sangha, lecture halls, and library system, and was renowned for teaching in logic, Madhyamaka, and Yogacara, becoming a symbolic hub of East Indian Buddhist institutions.
1024–1027Nalanda · BiharScholar-monks from Tibet, Nepal, and Southeast Asian countries still came to Nalanda to study; Sanskrit Buddhist scriptures and tantric traditions converged here. Later Tibetan Buddhist literature often looked back to this site as a sacred place, reflecting its scholarly reputation in the early 11th century.

Sources

Buddhist Monks and Monasteries of India — Sukumar Dutt (1962)
History of Buddhism in India — Nalinaksha Dutt (1970)