Buddhism & Islamic Rule in South Asia (1 gen 701 anni – 1 gen 1300 anni)

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From about the 8th to 13th centuries, North Indian Buddhism depended on huge monastic universities like Nalanda and Vikramashila, where texts, relics, and teachers were concentrated; these were both spiritual centers and political symbols. As royal support weakened and new Hindu devotional movements grew, those institutions were already vulnerable when Turko-Afghan armies arrived; later sources and archaeology indicate serious attacks on some monasteries, including Nalanda, in the late 12th–13th centuries, which destroyed libraries, statues, and housing for monks. [14][16] Scholars disagree on proportions—some stress the violence of specific conquests, others the long internal decline—but agree that losing these sites shattered Buddhism’s base in much of India. [14][16][17] The conflict was not over one god vs. another only; it was over control of land, schools, and sacred objects, and it forced Buddhism’s living centers to shift toward Sri Lanka, the Himalayas, and Southeast Asia, while new Muslim rulers remapped holy places and patronage in the former Buddhist heartlands.

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