Nalanda International is a 501 C3 non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of higher educational projects addressing dialog between different disciplines and ways of thought so as to encourage approaches towards a holistic world culture. In this, it seeks to foster the building of bridges wherever there are differences. Taking its name from the ancient Buddhist university of India, which
promoted research and knowledge sharing among the many schools of Indic and Asiatic thought, Nalanda International aims at supporting a many-sided life of the mind and spirit seeking solutions to the problems of our time. Not neglecting the physical and social life, Indic knowledge, in its prime, had brought these dimensions into relationship with ethical ideals and spiritual experience, and Nalanda International exists to support such integral paradigms in contemporary times. Just as ancient Greece provided the continuing ideal of the perfection of the body and its athletic skills in the Olympics, Nalanda International fosters the perfection of mind and spirit, irrespective of religion, ethnicity or culture. Like Asia‘s mascot, the banyan, which spreads its branches and strikes roots across its ever expanding domain of unity-in-diversity, Nalanda International seeks organic growth and expansion of oneness worldwide, with the perception of the whole world as its home.
