About the Book: On the Buddhas Trail in Bangladesh
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