1. Taxila-Buddha goes to college

2. The World’s first university

3. The Harvard of Ancient times
• Students at Taxila university learned archery,
horse riding, elephant riding, philosophy,
defence sciences, grammar, religion, law
• No examinations!
• Students finished when the teacher said they
were done
• Taxila became a great center of Buddhist
learning after the time of Ashoka

4. Famous students
Jivaka
The Buddha’s doctor
Father of Thai massage

5. King Pasenadi
The Buddha’s
number one
sponsor.
Without him,
Buddhism would
not have survived.

6. King Bimbisara
The Jain king of
Magadha
He gave his kingdom
to the Buddha

7. Map of ancient India
Taxila was far from
the Buddha’s
home
He may have
learned many new
ideas there

8. Zarathustra/Zoroaster
He lived around the same
time as the Buddha
His ideas about good and evil
may have influenced
Buddhism