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Buddhist University in India

It was a thriving center of Buddhist learning 1,400 years ago—and now it's being rebuilt.

09/05/2013 | Rating NR

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Buddhist University in India

Clip: 9/5/2013 | 5m 48s

It was a thriving center of Buddhist learning 1,400 years ago—and now it's being rebuilt.

For decades, the Indian government has encouraged pilgrims to come to one of India’s holiest locations, the ancient city of Bodh Gaya. Now there is an effort to revive the ancient Buddhist university that once flourished there well before universities like Cambridge and Oxford were founded in the West.

09/05/2013 | Rating NR

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