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  2. Muhammad Bakhtiyar Khalji - Wikipedia

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    [13] [14] The leading centre of teaching for Mahayana Buddhism was Nalanda. At the end of the 12th century, Bakhityar Khilji demolished the Monastery in a brutal sacking. [15] But some historians don't agree and reason that Bakhtiyar's attacks weren't on the Buddhist viharas, and the actual Buddhist sites were already abandoned or in declining ...

  3. Nalanda mahavihara - Wikipedia

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    1 September 2014 saw the commencement of the first academic year of a modern Nalanda University, with 15 students, in nearby Rajgir. [128] Nalanda University (also known as Nalanda International University) is an international and research-intensive university located in the historical city of Rajgir in Bihar, India. It was established by an ...

  4. List of destroyed libraries - Wikipedia

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    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]

  5. Muslim conquests in the Indian subcontinent - Wikipedia

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    In 1193, the Nalanda University complex was destroyed by Afghan Khalji–Ghilzai Muslims under Bakhtiyar Khalji; this event is seen as the final milestone in the decline of Buddhism in India. He also burned Nalanda's major Buddhist library and Vikramshila University, [ 268 ] as well as numerous Buddhist monasteries in India.

  6. Bihar Sharif - Wikipedia

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    In 1193, during the time of Ikhtiyar ad-Din Muhammad bin Bakhtiyar Khilji's conquest of Bihar, he came to conquer eastern parts of India and destroyed Nalanda University. . En route to Nalanda, he allegedly damaged the Buddhist monasteries of a place now called Bakhtiyarp

  7. File:Famed Buddhist Nalanda University ruins, 1993.jpg

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    Nalanda was ransacked and destroyed by Turkic Muslim invaders under Bakhtiyar Khalji in 1200. The great library of Nalanda University was so vast that it is reported to have burned for three months after the invaders set fire to it, ransacked and destroyed the monasteries, and drove the monks from the site. Nalanda means "insatiable in giving ...

  8. Persecution of Buddhists - Wikipedia

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    The image, in the chapter on India in Hutchison's Story of the Nations edited by James Meston, depicts the Muslim Turkic general Muhammad Bakhtiyar Khilji's massacre of Buddhist monks in Bihar. Khaliji destroyed the Nalanda and Vikramshila universities during his raids across North Indian plains, massacring many Buddhist and Brahmin scholars. [42]

  9. Timeline of post-classical history - Wikipedia

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    Muhammad bin Bakhtiyar Khilji sack and burn the university at Nalanda. This is the beginning of the decline of Buddhism in India. 1195: Battle of Alarcos The Almohad Caliphate decisively defeat the Kingdom of Castile. The Almohads pushed Christians to the north and established themselves as the supreme power in Al-Andalus 1199: Europeans first ...