Vikramaśīla

Vikramaśīla was one of the great Buddhist monastic universities of the Pāla period, founded by King Dharmapāla around the late eighth century at a site now identified with Antichak in Bhagalpur district, Bihar, India. It was a major centre of tantric Buddhist learning; Atiśa served as one of its abbots before departing for Tibet, and the university was destroyed during the invasions of the late twelfth century.