A center of Buddhist studies is established at Nalanda in Bihar on the plains of the Ganges River (India).

…Nalanda, the great Buddhist university of Indian state of Bihar, where he will spend at least the next two years in the company of several thousand scholar-monks, whom he praises.

Xuanzang will study logic, grammar, Sanskrit, and the Yogacara school of Buddhism during his time at Nalanda.v

From Nalanda, Xuanzang travels through several countries, including Campā, to …

Evidence in literature suggests that in 1193, Muhammad Khilji, a general under the command of Qutb-ud-Din, sacks and burns Nalanda, India's greatest Buddhist university.