The Lost Library of Nalanda

“A library so massive… its books burned for three months. But was the fire really an accident

of war— or something far stranger?” “In 1193, Bakhtiyar Khilji attacked Nalanda—

the world’s biggest university. Thousands of monks, millions of scrolls, knowledge from Greece

to China… all went up in flames.” “But here’s the part they don’t teach you.

Surviving monks wrote that before the attack, a ‘great silence’ fell over Nalanda…

and senior scholars vanished overnight, carrying secret manuscripts to an unknown ‘northern

refuge’. Some believe those vaults still exist— buried somewhere near the Indo-Tibetan

routes.” “Local legends say travellers once heard chanting inside sealed caves… centuries