College of Architecture & Planning - Acharya Nagarjuna University,Guntur, Andhra Pradesh was established in 2009.

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.

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'.