Vikramaśīla University

विक्रमशिला विश्वविद्यालय sa བིཀྲམ་ལ་ཤཱི་ལ། bo 超戒寺 zh

Building in India

Dated from c. 800 CE
Also called Vikramshila University, chaoxing si/chaoyan si

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A place,
and the traditions
recorded there.

Sites, not believers

Overview

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Figures

Associated figures

Gods and people named with this place — as its founders, or in their own records.

What this means

Founders are named by this place's own record, and a founding is an attribution, often contested. The rest are read from the other end, computed from their records rather than this one. Being named with a place is not being documented there in any given year.

Dharmapala ↗Named as founder
8th century Pala Emperor of Bengal and Bihar

Site history & evidence

What is documented here

Each kind of evidence on its own row, because they do not add up.

Evidence	On record	What it shows
Site date	Dated from c. 800 CE On the timeline	A date for the site as recorded — not the start of worship, and not a floor on the tradition here.
Location	Recorded to the site On the atlas	A coordinate for the place. It locates the site; it does not draw its extent.
Dated activity	None recorded	A pin is a place, not an event. What happened at Vikramaśīla University, and when, is a separate claim, and this import holds none: it carries site locations, not dated activity.

Nearby

Places nearby

The nearest this collection holds, measured between recorded coordinates.

What this means

Computed from coordinates, not stated by any source. Nearness is geometry, not a connection: two sites a kilometre apart may never have shared a worshipper, a tradition or a century. Where either coordinate is recorded only to a district, the distance is rounded and says “about”.

Computed See them together on the atlas