"It seems noteworthy, with this in mind, that Buddhism survived longer in Iran than it did in the South-Asian subcontinent, although we know little about the form of Buddhism that was professed for about fifty years by the Mongols of Iran until the time of Arghun (1284-91) and his son Ghazan (1295-1304). Iran sheltered a large number of Buddhist 'Bakhshis' and was strewn with Buddhist establishments. When Ghazan converted to Islam in 1295, this was accompanied by the destruction of the Buddhist places of worship and the migration of many Buddhists to Kashmir, India, China, Tibet, and Uyghuristan. But it can be shown that Buddhism lingered in Iran for some time longer, until the fourteenth century."
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A. Wink, Al-Hind-The-Making-of-the-Indo-Islamic-World-Vol-2-The-Slave-Kings-and-the-Islamic-Conquest-11th-13th-Centuries pp 349-350
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