c. 1201 AD–c. 1300 AD
Nalanda’s functional end
Religion · Buddhist traditions · Monasticism and heritage
UNESCO places Nalanda’s sack, abandonment, and functional end in the thirteenth century; this entry records the institutional outcome without assigning the whole transformation to a single cause.
Precision, calendar, and review
- Start
- century · approximate
- End
- century · approximate
- Dating in the source document
- ~ siglo XIII
- Calendar and convention
- Historical-era years; the source calendar is not identified. No conversion of days is assumed.
- Year zero
- The scale goes from 1 BCE to 1 CE without year zero. Changing era names changes labels only.
- Documentary review
- 2026-09-04
Reading the date: dating window; it does not mean the event lasted for that entire interval.
Sources
- UNESCO — Nālandā (opens in a new tab)
Source provenance and scope
- Publication date
- Pending verification: the source could not be accessed
- Bibliographic date checked
- 2026-09-23
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