founded by Malananda. Mālānanda was an Indian Buddhist monk from Gandhara, in modern day Pakistan, who brought Buddhism to the southern Korean Peninsula in the fourth century CE.
Abdul Malik Isami was a 14th century Indian historian and court poet. He wrote in Persian language, under the patronage of Ala-ud-Din Bahman Shah, the founder of the Bahmani Sultanate. He is best known for Futuh-us-Salatin (c. 1350), a poetic history of the Muslim conquest of India.