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Acharya Nagarjuna University

Acharya Nagarjuna, the profounder of the Madhyamika Buddhism is one of the greatest philosophers India has ever produced. The Buddhists of China, Japan and Tibet river him to be the Second Buddha, who once again set in the motion the wheel of Dharma. He endowed with metaphysical profundity and logical acumen has reaffirmed the basic ideas of Buddhism, apart from providing reinterpretation, clarification and amplification of new concepts of Buddhism.
Acharya Nagarjuna University
Acharya Nagarjuna University

He focused on the fundamental problems of human existence, human aspiration and human actions. He found solutions to them through intuition and reflective thought. He applied and practiced these solutions and his doctrine and experience become a norm to motivate rational and sensitive minds of different generation in different countries with varied cultural environment. Hanayama Shinsho recognizing Nagarjuna's contribution has opined that ‘he may well be called the progenitor of Mahayana thought'.

The Madhyamika-karika testifies to the historicity to their author Nagarjuna, the great Buddhist philosopher, who extolled the path of Prajnaparamita. He wrote the Karika in order to expound the basic teaching of the Prajnaparamita-sutras.

The recent archaeological discoveries at Amaravati corroborate to certain extent the broad facts about Nagarjuna's life on which his traditional biographies agree. He was born in a Brahmin family in Andhradesa at Vedali. Based on the Chinese author Tao-an (A.D.568) and Kumarjivas' account and his date for Buddha' nirvana and other material of a Japanese Scholar Hakaju concluded that Nagarjuna lived about 113-213 A.D.

The fact being his friendship with a Satavahana King Gautamiputra Satakarni (130-150 A.D.) and his having spent the latter part of his career in the monastery built for him by this king at Bhramaragiri (Sriparvata). The Manjuasrimulakalpa and Tibetan sources contend that Nagarjuna had the Amaravati stupa renovated, enclosed and ornamented with the assistance of this King. Dhanyakataka and Sriparvata were the Centers of his activity. Rajatarangini of 11 th century treats him as a contemporary of Kanishka.

No of Departments

  1. Department of Aquaculture
  2. College of Architecture & Planning
  3. Department of Biotechnology – The Centre was established in year 1994, inaugurated by the then Secretary, Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, C. R. Bhatia.
  4. Department of Biochemistry
  5. Department of Chemistry
  6. Department of Computer Science & Engineering
  7. Department of Engineering & Technology
  8. Department of Political Science & Public Administration
  9. Department of Sociology
  10. Department of Economics
  11. Department of Telugu & Oriental Languages
  12. Department of Zoology
  13. Department of Botany
  14. Department of Commerce & Business Administration
  15. Department of Adult Education
  16. Department of Electronics & Instrumentation Technology
  17. Department of Environmental Science
  18. Department of Geology
  19. Department of Mathematics
  20. Department of Physics
  21. Department of Rural development
  22. Department of Social Work
  23. Department of Statistics
  24. Department of Library and Information Science
  25. Department of Women's Studies
  26. Centre for Scientific Socialism
  27. Department of MA & Journalism and Mass Communications
  28. Centre for Buddhist Studies
  29. Centre for kashmiri studies
  30. Department of Nano Technology(5 years integrated)
  31. DEPARTMENT OF NASA TECHNOLOGYS
  32. Department of MBA(HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION)
  33. DEPARTMENT OF MBA(TRAVEL&TOURISM MANAGEMENT)
  34. Department of Human Resource Management

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