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Located on the banks of the Ichamati River, the historic village of Ishwaripur in Bangladesh is renowned for its religious sites, including the triangular-shaped Chanda Bhairab Temple, the Tenga Mosque with its five elegant domes, as well as a 16th century Hammamkhana built by the King of Jessore, Maharaja Pratapaditya. Moreover, the first Catholic Church of Bengal was built in the village at the end of the 16th century by Portuguese soldiers under the rule of the Hindu king.
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The Sylhet Division is located in the North-Eastern region of Bangladesh. Within this division is a picturesque district called Maulvi Bazar. It covers an area of approximately two thousand seven hundred square kilometers and has an extremely dense population of more than 1.3 million residents. There are three main rivers that flow through this district that provide the farming regions of Maulvi Bazar with water, but it also result in occasional flooding.
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According to the Buddhist religion, Buddha was incarnated as Santos Kumar. After fulfilling his life in this form, he was living in paradise until he was approached by the gods and asked if he would agree to be reborn as a human so that he could roam the earth and not only lead the gods on the road to paradise, but to also save humans, showing them the way. He agreed, and was placed into the womb of his mother, after which he was born on Baisakhi purnima, in 623 BC. His birth, day of enlightenment and his death are therefore celebrated by Buddhists during the Buddha Purnima festival.
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Kali Puja is a Hindu festival that is celebrated in Bangladesh in the month of Ashwin (around October or November). Shiva is one of the three gods of the Hindu Triad, and Kali is one of his female energies, of which he has ten female energies. There are a variety of legends and stories about her, and she is known by various names, according to her aspects, such as Bhadra, Daksin, Raksa, Guhya and Shmashan. Kali Puja is not an ancient festival, as it was only introduced to Bengal by King Raja Krishnachandra of Navadvipa during the eighteenth century.
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While there may be some controversy regarding the actual date of his birth and of his death, it is widely accepted that Atiśa Dipankara Shrijnana, referred to simply as Atisha, was a notable Buddhist teacher from the Pala Empire and one of the most influential figures in establishing the Sarma Buddhism lineages in Tibet. The most commonly accepted belief is that Atisha was born in the year 980 in a town located in modern day Bikrampur, Bangladesh, which at the time fell into the geographical region known as Bengal. Located to the south of Dhaka, Bikrampur lies in the Munshiganj District of Bangladesh, and is renowned for its historical role in Buddhism, being the birthplace of notable Buddhist scholars and teachers, including Atisha, also referred to as Atish Dipongkor.
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Shahbag, located in the capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka, is a large neighborhood in the city and is today a very important hub for transportation, as well as the border between the New and Old Dhaka. It of course looked very different in the seventeenth century when it was developed by the Mughal Empire and was known as Bagh-e-Badshahi. The name was later shortened to Shahbagh, and as the nineteenth century came into full swing, new developments arose while the Mughal rule faded into the memory of history.
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The beautiful Bay of Bengal forms the southern border of Bangladesh, and washes the shores of neighboring Myanmar and India, joining the vast Indian Ocean to the south. As the largest natural bay in the world, the triangular-shaped Bay of Bengal covers an area of around 2,172,000 square kilometers and includes numerous islands. Rivers of Bangladesh flowing into the Bay of Bengal include the Padma, a main tributary of the legendary Ganges; Meghna, one of three main rivers in the Sundarbans Delta; and Brahmaputra, which becomes the Jamuna River when it flows through Bangladesh and into the bay.
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The ancient archeological site of Mahasthangarh is believed to date back as far as 700 BC and appears to have been occupied right up to the 1700s. Mahasthangarh is located in the Shibganj Upzila (subdistrict) of the Bogra District of Bangladesh, near the village of Mahasthan. It is the oldest urban-style fortified settlement discovered in Bangladesh to date, and includes a temple with the tomb of Shah Sultan Balkhi Mahisawar, a dervish (Muslim saint) of royal lineage who traveled to the area in the 14th century with the aim of converting the locals to the Islamic religion.
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