Atish Dipankar Srijanan from Bangladesh in Ten-Eleventh century was the most respected educator of the sub-continent to convey the message of Buddha, acted as principal envo y of Vihara based education. In fact, he represents the great monastic learning tradition of more than 350 Viharas in this region within the development of Mahayana sect which lead all of them to contribute in scholarly literary creations including Buddhist mystic songs. If one wants to know the architectural features of that period, especially for the recently excavated Bikrampur Vihar, he or she need to trace Atish and have some observation over his interval points and end the journey in Tibet. To be contextual, the architecture of these Viharas influenced the style of monasteries and temples in South East Asia up to Myanmar, Cambodia to Java (Indonesia) and entire Bali peninsula and also in Tibet by implicit extend. In this regard, the style of gradual receding and crucified plan of the central shrine was most influential for practice. To exchange the thoughts they relied on such cooperation where spatial quality was followed as per their spirituality and architecture became the medium of a friendly brotherhood, as history kept the incident that King Devapala granted five villages attach ed to Nalanda for the installation of the Matha (individual Cella of vertical exposure) to honor the request of the King Sailendra of Java only for the scholars of Sumatra & Java. However, the aim of this study is to find an imagination of Bikrampur Vihar with the comparisons and similarities of the places which hold this noble sage.s memories with their ruins. From that sense, this study is hypothetical one.
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