Nalanda Mahavira may exist today only as ruins ... into a well laid Mahavihara, inspired the courtyard structure in colleges and universities. Such a courtyard, argues the author, played a key ...

Even before the Turks came Nalanda was famous for its specialization ... Several lectures and disputations went on simultaneously in the central courtyards of the monasteries and monks actively ...

Its quadrilateral layout of courtyard structure, learning halls surrounded by student residences prefigured the modern university campus. At the heart of Nalanda was Dharmaganja, a library so vast ...