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  2. Nalanda mahavihara - Wikipedia

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    Nalanda was attacked and burnt by Muhammad Bakhtiyar Khilji (c. 1200), but it managed to remain operational for decades (or possibly even centuries) following the raids. [ 22 ] [ 23 ] [ 24 ] Over some 750 years, Nalanda's faculty included some of the most revered scholars of Mahayana Buddhism.

  3. List of destroyed libraries - Wikipedia

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    City partially destroyed, libraries sacked and burned. [21] Nalanda: Nalanda India 1193 Bakhtiyar Khilji: Nalanda University complex (the most renowned repository of Buddhist knowledge in the world at the time) was sacked by Turkic Muslim invaders under the perpetrator; this event is seen as a milestone in the decline of Buddhism in India. [22]

  4. Muhammad Bakhtiyar Khalji - Wikipedia

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    Ikhtiyār al-Dīn Muḥammad Bakhtiyār Khaljī, [2] also known as Bakhtiyar Khalji, [3] [4] was a Turko-Afghan [5] [6] military general of the Ghurid ruler Muhammad of Ghor, [7] who led the Muslim conquests of the eastern Indian regions of Bengal and parts of Bihar and established himself as their ruler.

  5. Another '70's flashback: The meat crisis - AOL

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    Regardless, the huge slabs of meat that once characterized the average American's diet became rarer. Although beef certainly made a comeback, it never really regained its position at the center of ...

  6. Decline of Buddhism in the Indian subcontinent - Wikipedia

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    Lars Fogelin argues that the concentration of the sangha into large monastic complexes like Nalanda was one of the contributing causes for the decline. He states that the Buddhists of these large monastic institutions became "largely divorced from day-to-day interaction with the laity, except as landlords over increasingly large monastic ...

  7. List of book-burning incidents - Wikipedia

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    The order was effective in Prussia, but the King could not prevent some 30,000 copies being sold in Paris. In the aftermath, Voltaire had to leave Prussia, though he and King Frederick were later reconciled. [citation needed] Voltaire's works were burnt several times in pre-revolutionary France.

  8. Massive Meat Recall Now Includes Meals Sold at Walmart ...

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    Now, the nationwide recall has expanded to include nearly 12 million pounds of meat and a lengthy list of ready-to-eat meals sold at many of the country's biggest grocery chains, including Walmart ...

  9. 3 questions for Patricia McCormick, whose book 'Sold' has ...

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    Yahoo News spoke to McCormick about how Sold became a target of those seeking to ban books. The interview has been edited for length and clarity. 1. Can you explain exactly why you think your book ...