[Buddha-l] Nalanda's library destruction

[Dan Lusthaus]

Just to further qualify the quality of sources.

As opposed to post-1960s revisionists, 18th century Tibetan fairy-tale 
spinners, and other speculative sources, the Tabaqat-i-Nasiri, which states:

> "Most of the inhabi­tants of the place were ... put to death. ...when the 
> Muhammadans saw [the vast number of books], they called for some persons 
> to explain their contents, but all the men had been killed."

was written by Minhaj al-Siraj Juzjani, nearly a contemporary of the events, 
for the Sultan of Delhi.

>From Wikipedia:

Minhaj al-Siraj Juzjani (born 1193), full name Abu Osman Minhajuddin bin 
Sirajuddin, was a 13th century Persian historian born in the Ghurid capital 
city of Firuz Kuh, which was located in Ghor Province.

In 1227, Juzjani migrated to Ucch then to Delhi. Juzjani was the principal 
historian for the Mamluk Sultanate of Delhi in northern India. and wrote of 
the Ghurid dynasty. He also wrote the Tabaqat-i Nasiri (1260 CE) for Sultan 
Nasir ud din Mahmud of Delhi.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minhaj-i-Siraj

Case closed, or shall we wait for a misinterpretation of the surviving 
Nalanda bricks to pretend this never happened?

Dan