“A process is under way to translate and publish hundreds of original Buddhist manuscripts from Nalanda and Vikramshila, saved during the burning of the ancient universities in the 12th and 13th centuries by Bakhtiyar Khilji’s army and later brought back to India from Tibet by traveller, freedom fighter and monk Rahul Sankrityayan,” a Bihar State minister has said.
Bihar Art and Culture Minister Alok Ranjan informed the Assembly on Thursday that the process has been started by the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies (CIHTS) at Sarnath.
