Tuesday, 17 February 2015
To visit Vikramshila University, we docked at the village of Batheshwar Sthan. The date was a major Hindu holiday: Mahashivratri (literally, Shiva's big night). The town was filled with festival goers.
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| Making our way through the village. |
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| Villagers were dressed up for the holiday. |
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| Even the goats got special treatment. |
Nearby is Vikramshila, a major Buddhist university established in the 8th or 9th century CE. Like many Buddhist sites, it was destroyed around 1200 CE. It had only about 1/10 of the students that Nalanda had (1,000 students for Vikramshila), but was more elite.
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| The remnants of the original stupa, partially reconstructed. The surrounding wall in the foreground is part of the huge square monastery that had the stupa in its center. |
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| The platform surrounding the stupa. |
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