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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9789353522148 |
| 037 ## - SOURCE OF ACQUISITION |
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| Terms of availability |
Purchased |
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Mathrubhumi Books, Kaloor |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
English |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
294.3435 |
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SUN/ON |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Sunita Dwivedi |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
ON THE BUDDHA'S TRAIL IN BANGLADESH |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
1 |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
New Delhi |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Rupa Publications |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2026 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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284 |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Beginning at Kushinagar on Asias Buddhist circuit, the authors long, looping trail through Afghanistan, Central Asia, the Tarim Basin, China and Tibet ultimately turns back towards Bengal and its overlooked eastern corridors. This book grows out of that return. It follows the old routes that once linked West Bengal and Bangladesh with Tibet and the southern provinces of China, where trade in horses, silk, aromatics and medicinal herbs moved alongside a steady traffic of monks, scholars and translators. These were not merely commercial roads but intellectual ones, feeding the mahaviharas of Bengal and carrying Buddhist texts, teachers and ideas into Tibet and China.<br/><br/>Set in Bangladesh, the narrative explores the country through what remains of that older Buddhist landscape. Along highways and riverbanks, ruined monasteries and unexcavated mounds appear with striking regularity: some formally identified, others half-obliterated into high earthen rises, and many built over by later structures. Drawing on archaeology, travel and close observation, the book connects celebrated sites such as Somapura at Paharpur and the MainamatiLalmai range with lesser known settlements across Bogra, Dinajpur, Bikrampur and the deltaic south.<br/><br/>More than a catalogue of ruins, it is a route-led portrait of Buddhist Bangladesh, tracing how sacred ground survives through fragments, museums, reused stone and memory, even when the monuments themselves have fallen. |
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Buddhism — Bangladesh — History |
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Buddhist antiquities |
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Buddhist monuments |
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Buddhist temples |
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Buddhist monasteries |
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Buddhist pilgrims and pilgrimages |
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| Koha item type |
Lending |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |