[Buddha-l] Nalanda's library destruction

[Christopher Fynn]

On 15/05/2013, Dan Lusthaus <vasubandhu at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 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.

Well read Tibetans I know say that, according to Tibetan sources,
Nalanda was sacked on a number of occasions - both by "Hindus" and by
Muslim invaders - and that "the destruction of Nalanda" was not a
single event.