This is Wikipedia's article on Nalanda Mahavihara, the ancient Buddhist monastic university in Bihar, India, maintained through Wikipedia's ordinary community editing process rather than a fixed editorial board. Its strength is that Wikipedia articles on a well studied ancient institution are generally reliable for standard, uncontroversial facts drawn from established archaeological and historical scholarship, founding period, notable teachers and the site's excavation history, checked by many editors over time. Its limit is structural rather than specific to this article, it is a perpetually community edited reference page rather than a peer reviewed publication, so it is the right source for standard biographical and institutional facts about Nalanda but not for a contested or specialist claim about its curriculum or destruction, which needs the archaeological and historical scholarship this article itself draws from.
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A Wikipedia reference article on Nalanda Mahavihara, cited only for basic checkable institutional facts (its rise as a Buddhist center of learning, its destruction and modern legacy), never as independent evidence for any doctrinal claim taught there. The tier-3 use. NotesWikipedia's article on Nalanda Mahavihara. A perpetually community-edited reference page rather than a peer-reviewed publication; use for standard, uncontroversial facts about Nalanda Mahavihara (biographical detail, dates, common definitions), not as the source for a contested or specialist scholarly claim.
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URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nalanda_mahavihara
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This source names India directly: "Buddhist monastic university in Bihar, India, maintained through Wikipedia's ordinary community editing process rather than a fixed editorial board."
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- Organizations, 10 claims: 6 well-attested, 2 scholarly debate, 1 holds, 1 general references.
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