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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.
He also burned Nalanda's major Buddhist library and Vikramshila University, [268] as well as numerous Buddhist monasteries in India. When the Tibetan translator, Chag Lotsawa Dharmasvamin (Chag Lo-tsa-ba, 1197–1264), visited northern India in 1235, Nalanda was damaged, looted, and largely deserted, but still standing and functioning with ...
City partially destroyed, libraries sacked and burned. [22] 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. [23]
The burned property, a popular location for Hollywood productions, was severely damaged by the wildfires around Jan. 7, the day the inferno broke out in the impacted areas.
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 ...
There have been several incidents of Harry Potter books being burned, including those directed by churches at Alamogordo, New Mexico, and Charleston, South Carolina, in 2006. [221] More recently books have been burnt in response to J.K. Rowling's comments on Donald Trump, [222] and to protest her gender-critical beliefs. [223] [224]
For some WAGs, their names are bigger than their significant other's jersey numbers. Case in point, Taylor Swift.The pop star is arguably the most famous WAG cheering in the stands these days.
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.