This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.
University gathers four institutions of higher learning, though only one of the four is itself a full university; the other three are a monastic seat of learning, a library and a research institute that this node still groups with them.
Nalanda was a great monastic university in ancient Magadha, founded in the fifth century CE and growing into the most renowned center of Buddhist learning in Asia, drawing scholars from as far as China, Tibet and Southeast Asia to its library, the Dharmaganja, before its destruction in 1193 by the Turkic commander Bakhtiyar Khilji, an event historians treat as a defining moment in Buddhism's decline in India.
The Bodleian Library, founded at Oxford by Thomas Bodley and reopened in 1602, secured a 1610 legal deposit agreement with London's Stationers' Company that still, in modified form, brings it a copy of nearly every book published in England, making it one of the largest research libraries in the world.
The Warburg Institute grew out of the private library of the art historian Aby Warburg, reorganized into a formal research institute in Hamburg in 1921 and relocated to London in 1933 ahead of the Nazi regime, becoming part of the University of London in 1944 with a research focus on magic, astrology and the occult within Western intellectual history that continues today.
Loma Linda University, the one straightforward university of the four, is the Seventh-day Adventist Church's health sciences institution, whose School of Public Health runs the long term Adventist Health Studies that made Adventist populations among the most studied groups in religious epidemiology.