Category: Mainamati

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Shalban Vihara at Mainamati in Comilla

You drive east from Comilla town, past the new apartments and the roadside stalls selling sweets. The road rises gently. Then you see the low hills, covered in green, with a flat plateau on top. That is Mainamati. And on that plateau sits Shalban Vihara, the most excavated Buddhist monastery in Bangladesh. I went there […]
Mainamati

Mainamati and the Buddhist Ruins Near Comilla

You stand on the low hill of Mainamati, and the heat of the Comilla plain wraps around you. The grass is dry and brown in the winter months. The air smells of dust and old earth. To the east, the green line of the Tripura hills sits on the horizon. It is quiet here, except […]