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Please tell 10 important points about nalanda.

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• Nalanda university complex after being declared as one of the UNESCO world heritage site has become a prominent tourist destination which will help accrue revenue to the state.

• Nalanda, is famous all over the world for the the ancient International Monastic University established in 5th century BC, which taught Vedas, Logic, Grammar, Medicine, Meta-Physics, Prose Composition and Rhetoric.

• Nalanda district is popularly known as Biharsharif.

• Apart from Buddhist studies, other streams including human sciences were taught, and there were clearly specified procedure for admission to the university.
• Nalanda symbolises for its education.
• Historical studies indicate that the University of Nalanda was established during the reign of the Gupta emperorKumaragupta

• The third and most destructive attack came when the ancient Nalanda University was destroyed by the Muslim army led by the Turkish leader Bakhtiyar Khilji in 1193
• It is believed that Buddhism as a major religion in India had a setback for hundreds of years due to the loss of the religious texts during the attack.
• Mr Sen said the new Nalanda project, whose ancestor easily predated both the University of Al Karaouine in Fez, Morocco – founded in 859 AD and considered the world's oldest, continually-operating university, and Cairo's Al Azhar University (975 AD), had already attracted widespread attention from prestigious

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