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037			_cPurchased _nMathrubhumi Books, Kaloor
041			_aEnglish
082			_a294.3435 _bSUN/ON
100			_aSunita Dwivedi
245			_aON THE BUDDHA'S TRAIL IN BANGLADESH
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260			_aNew Delhi _bRupa Publications _c2026
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500			_a 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. 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. 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.
650			_aBuddhism — Bangladesh — History
650			_aBuddhist antiquities
650			_aBuddhist monuments
650			_aBuddhist temples
650			_aBuddhist monasteries
650			_aBuddhist pilgrims and pilgrimages
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999			_c198912 _d198912