In this extract, the author likens a Korean EPZ’s destruction of the probable site of the ancient Pandita Vihara to the destruction of Afghan Buddhist sites ...

Evidence of the rise of Mahayana Buddhism in Bengal from the 7th century onwards, Somapura Mahavira, or the Great Monastery, was a renowned intellectual centre until the 12th century. Its layout ...

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Buddhist monks from different corners of the country are set to converge on Moghalmari near Dantan in West Midnapur on January 24 to stake their claim on a newly excavated site, believed to be one of ...

Ninety-one bronze statues of Buddhist deities have been unearthed from the Sakhisen mound at Moghalmari, in Danton in West Midnapore, establishing it as the site of a 6th century Buddhist vihara ...

Project researcher Prof Dr Sufi Mostafizur Rahman, a teacher of the Archaeology Department at Jahangirnagar University, on Saturday said there were more viharas like this ‘Bikrampuri Vihara’. “History ...

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