Nav Nalanda Mahavihara

Q.  The ancient Nalanda University has been revived. It is named as
- Published on 19 Jul 16

a. Nalanda Vidyapeeth
b. New Nalanda University
c. Nalanda Mahavihara
d. Nav Nalanda Mahavihara

ANSWER: Nav Nalanda Mahavihara
 
  • Ministry of Human Resources Development granted ‘Nav Nalanda Mahavihara (NNM)’ the status of Deemed to be University on November 13, 2006.
  • The idea behind the establishment of this Institute was to develop it into a centre of higher studies on the lines of the old Nalanda Viharas.
  • Dr. Rajendra Prasad, the first President of the Republic of India had initiated the idea and declared that the ancient seat of Buddhist learning at Nalanda would be revived and thus had emanated the vision of establishing the Nava Nalanda Mahavihara.
  • At the insistence of Ven. Bhikshu Jagdish Kashyap, the Government of Bihar established a research institute called "Magadh Institute of Post-Graduate Studies and Research in Pali and Allied Languages and Buddhist Learning" at Nalanda in 1951. It later came to be known as Nava Nalanda Mahavihara.

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