孟加拉国欲联合印度、尼泊尔开发佛教遗址环游

据海外媒体2009年7月12日报道，孟加拉国想要联合印度、尼泊尔开发佛教遗址环游活动，借以促进其帕哈尔普尔佛教毗诃罗遗址旅游业。帕哈尔普尔佛教毗诃罗遗址是印度次大陆最大寺院之一，于1985年被联合国教科文组织列入世界遗产。

孟加拉旅游组织联合秘书 Samena Begum表示，该提议在孟印缅斯泰经济合作组织（BIMSTEC）会议中被提出，通过设计一条佛教遗产环游路线来促进孟加拉、印度和尼泊尔佛教遗址旅游业。

她表示，帕哈尔普尔佛教毗诃罗遗址位于孟加拉国西北部的喜马拉雅山脉南麓，是一座8世纪晚期佛教寺院。因其地处孟加拉农村深部，所以穿过茂密的绿色田野、美丽的村庄到巴哈尔普耳寺去的的路途本身就是一段愉快的旅程。

帕哈尔普尔佛教毗诃罗遗址又称大寺院（Somapura Mahavira），是一个边长为281米的正方形庭院，内有寺院建筑177座。（编译：子规）

Kolkata , July 12 Bangladesh wants to develop a Buddhist circuit tourism jointly with India and Nepal to promote its Paharpur monastery which, it claimed, is one of the largest monasteries in the Indian sub-continent.

"The matter was taken up at a BIMSTEC meet and a proposal has been made for creating a heritage path to promote Buddhist circuit tourism involving Bangladesh, India and Nepal," Bangladesh Tourism Corporation Joint Secretary Samena Begum said here.

She said the Somapura Vihara, a UNESCO world heritage site, is a Buddhist monastery dating from the late eighth century located at the south of the Himalayas in north-west Bangladesh.

" Located deep in the Bangladesh countryside, the trip to Paharpur itself is a pleasure passing through lush green fields and beautiful villages,"she said.

The monastery is built as a quadrangle measuring 281 metres on each side and consist of 177 monastic cells.