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i've added a couple of images: photos shot by me. i'd like to see this page rise to "featured" standard. any ideas, comments? -- mowglee 14:29, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

There are contradictions about the age of Nalanda in the text. This webpage: http://www.indiaplaces.com/india-monuments/nalanda-university.html claims, that at least the International Scholastic Centre is older than the main foundations. Some even claim it was already a university in the time of the Buddha. Perhaps someone with more information could give sources for the various claims.

The article mentions "later mystic Theravada schools" developed at Nalanda. What are these schools? What does this refer to? I don't know what this means. Thank you. Bhikkhu Santi Seattle.

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[edit] Citing Sources

Please sign your comments with four ~. I caught this article in the maintenance list so I took out the unsourced statements flagged by the interested party and surrounded them with html comment markers. Further, I demonstrated the use of a single footnote, multiple times as demonstrated in footnotes. There are other statements in the article that should be sourced as well, but I'm not going to flag them as this isn't an area of interest for me. Religious articles are typically controversial and the editors of this article most likely will need to cite reliable sources if they don't want others to remove their remarks. Alan.ca 07:01, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Can anyone provide any source that "Khilji asked if there was a copy of the Koran at Nalanda before he sacked it" ? thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.109.24.246 (talk • contribs) of 11.02.2007

[edit] Roll back

I have rolled back the texts deleted by anonymous as the text had already cite references and there was no need to remove them unless a citation to the contrary is made. --Bhadani 15:11, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Copyright issue

I removed a large section of text in the "Plans for revival" section that appeared to be a cut and paste of the NY Times article mentioned. Woodega 01:05, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Much text under "Description of Nalanda University" is also a direct copy of the NY Times article and should be removed.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 18:05, 14 May 2007 67.187.123.214 (talk • contribs)
Yes, I just removed it. It would have been easier for you just to do it yourself than leave a comment, but whatever. Sylvain1972 20:58, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Some useful links

--Bhadani 04:10, 11 February 2007 (UTC)