Odantapuri
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Odantapuri was a prominent Buddhist monastic university in what is now Bihar Sharif in Bihar, India. It is believed to have been established by the Pala ruler Gopala I in the 8th century. It is consid
Photograph of the old ruined gate of the fort at Bihar Sharif in Bihar, taken by Joseph David Beglar in the 1870s. The fort is believed to have been part of Odantapuri
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's troops destroyed the Nalanda, Vikramashila, and Odantapuri universities during his raids across North Indian plains, massacring many Buddhist and Brahmin scholars.
Vikramashila
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Vikramashila was a Buddhist monastic university situated in what is now modern-day Bihar in India. It was founded by King Dharmapala between the late eighth and early ninth century.
Odantapuri
…Taranatha, it was founded by either Gopala or Devapala. Odantapuri was part of a network of five Mahaviharas in eastern India. The others were Nalanda, Vikramashila, Somapura, and Jagaddala. During the Pala period, Vikramshila was the leading monastery, and the state funding to Vikramshila and Odantapuri far exceeded…
The ruins of Vikramashila Buddhist Mahavihara
Atisa, one of the abbots of Vikramashila
11th-century Vajrayana Buddhist philosopher, Ratnākaraśānti
11th-century Buddhist scholar who spent time at Vikramashila, Maitripada