Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Ruins of the Buddhist Vihara at Paharpur' has mentioned 'Monastery' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
|---|---|
| [4] Taranatha's Pag Sam Jon Zang records that the monastery was repaired during the reign of Mahipala (circa 995xe2x80x931043 AD). | WIKI |
| The Nalanda inscription of Vipulashrimitra records that the monastery was destroyed by fire, which also killed Vipulashrimitra's ancestor Karunashrimitra, during a conquest by the Vanga army in the 11th century. | WIKI |
| Over time Atisha's spiritual preceptor, Ratnakara Shanti, served as a sthavira of the vihara, Mahapanditacharya Bodhibhadra served as a resident monk, and other scholars spent part of their lives at the monastery, including Kalamahapada, Viryendra and Karunashrimitra. | WIKI |
| A copperplate dated to 159 Gupta Era (479 AD) discovered in 1927 in the northeast corner of the monastery, mentions donation of a Brahmin couple to Jain Acharya Guhanandi of Pancha-stupa Nikaya[6] at Vata Gohli, identifiable as the neighbouring village of Goalapara[7] | WIKI |
| The site houses the architectural remains of a vast Buddhist monastery, Somapura Mahavihara, covering 11 hectares (27 acres). | WIKI |
| The first builder of the monastery was Dharmapala Vikramshila (770-810AD), the king of Varendri-Magadha, as inscribed on a clay seal discovered in the monastery compound. | UNESCO |
| The plan of the monastery can be described as a large square quadrangle measuring approximately 920 feet, with the main entrance, an elaborate structure, on the northern side. | UNESCO |
| The outer walls of the monastery are formed by rows of cells that face inwards toward the main shrine in the centre of the courtyard. | UNESCO |
| In the last building phases of the Monastery these cells, which formed the outer wall, totalled 177. | UNESCO |
| The main entrance to the monastery was through a fortified gate on the northern access to the central temple. | UNESCO |
| Today, Paharpur is the most spectacular and magnificent monument in Bangladesh and the second largest single Buddhist monastery on south of the Himalayas. | UNESCO |
| The symmetrical layout and massively built single unit of the monastery was perfectly adapted to its religious function. | UNESCO |
| Criterion (vi) : xc2xa0Somapura Mahavihara, the Great Monastery evidences the rise of Maharaja Buddhism in Bengal from the 7 th xc2xa0century onwards. | UNESCO |