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The major centers of Buddhism were in north India and the direct path of the armies. As centers of wealth and non-Muslim religions they were targets. [78] Buddhist sources agree with this assessment. Taranatha in his History of Buddhism in India of 1608, [79] gives an account of the last few centuries of Buddhism, mainly in Eastern India.
However, it is unclear whether the stupas were destroyed in ancient India or a much later period, and the existence of religious violence between Hinduism and Buddhism in ancient India has been disputed. [16] [17] It is unclear when the Deorkothar stupas were destroyed, and by whom.
The Islamic invasion plundered wealth and destroyed Buddhist images, [73] and consequent take over of land holdings of Buddhist monasteries removed one source of necessary support for the Buddhists, while the economic upheaval and new taxes on laity sapped the laity support of Buddhist monks.
The Buddhist texts record Mihirakula as extremely cruel and bad mannered, [11] [6] [14] the one who destroyed Buddhist sites, ruined monasteries, killed monks. [15] The Hindu kings Yashodharman and Gupta Empire rulers, between 525 and 532 CE, likely by 530 CE, reversed Mihirakula's campaign and ended the Mihirakula era. [16] [17]
His invasions destroyed the university establishments at Odantapuri, Vikramashila Mahaviras. [33] [12] Minhaj-i-Siraj Juzjani's Tabaqat-i Nasiri documents Bakhtiyar Khalji's sack of a Buddhist monastery, [12] which the author equates in his description with a city he calls "Bihar", from the soldiers' use of the word vihara. [34]
Bodh Gayā and the nearby regions were invaded and destroyed in the 12th century CE by Muslim Turk armies, led by Delhi Sultanate's Qutb al-Din Aibak and Bakhtiyar Khilji. For Buddhists, Bodh Gayā is the most important of the four main pilgrimage sites related to the life of Gautama Buddha, [5] the other three being Kushinagar, Lumbini, and ...
The 16th-century Tibetan Buddhist historian Taranatha also states that Pushyamitra and his allies killed Buddhist monks and destroyed monasteries from madhyadesha (midland) to Jalandhara. These activities wiped out the Buddhist doctrine from the north, within five years. [17]
The image, in the chapter on India in Hutchison's Story of the Nations edited by James Meston, depicts the Muslim Turkic general Bakhtiyar Khalji's massacre of Buddhist monks in Bihar, India. Khaliji destroyed the Nalanda, Vikramashila, and Odantapuri universities during his raids across North Indian plains, massacring many Buddhist and Brahmin ...