What Burnt at the Library of Nalanda University
This article is a researched piece, drawing from multiple publicly available sources on the internet. I have not put forward any original ideas or personal viewpoints here. When people say “Nalanda was burnt,” they often imagine a tragic but vague loss, an ancient library reduced to ashes. Source: Google Images The reality is far more devastating, far more specific, and far more important to understand. What burnt at Nalanda was not just a building. What burnt was humanity’s accumulated intelligence of nearly a thousand years .