sentences:  In the 13th century, states Craig Lockard, Buddhist monks in India escaped to Tibet to escape Islamic persecution; while the monks in western India, states Peter Harvey, escaped persecution by moving to south Indian Hindu kingdoms that were able to resist the Muslim power.Many Indian Buddhists fled south.It is known that Buddhists continued to exist in India even after the 14th century from texts such as the Chaitanya Charitamrita.