"A Tibetan author of the early seventeenth century, Taranatha, in his 'History of Buddhism in India', writes that during the time of the last four Sen a rulers the number of Buddhist monastic establishments had gone on increasing in Magadha, but that then many Stag-gzigs, 'Turks', of the mleeeha view, had started to appear.200 To protect places like U ddandapura and Vikramashila, the Sena kings converted these partially into fortresses and stationed some soldiers in them.201 The Stag-gzigs 'overran the whole of Magadha and massacred many ordained monks in Uddandapura'.202 They later built a fort on the ruins of the Uddandapura vihara, and destroyed Vikramashila, further to the northeast, as well.203 Taranatha leaves no doubt about the outcome: 'The Law became almost extinct in Magadha'."
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A Wink, Al-Hind, The Making of the Indo-Islamic World. Volume 2, 147
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Taranatha
1575 – 1634
Tāranātha (1575–1634) was a Lama of the Jonang school of Tibetan Buddhism. He is widely considered its most remarkable scholar and exponent.
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