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A new book explores Bangladesh through what remains of its ancient Buddhist landscape and monuments

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An excerpt from ‘On the Buddha’s Trail in Bangladesh’, by Sunita Dwivedi.

Mainamoti, Bangladesh, is an isolated low, dimpled range of hills, dotted with more than 50 ancient Buddhist settlements dating back to between the 8th and 12th century CE. | Syed Arif Hossain/Wikimedia Commons Comilla lies 100 kilometres east of Dhaka on N-1, the main artery between Dhaka and Chittagong. A few kilometres off Sitalakshya Bridge, a street branches off to Langalbandho, about 27 kilometres east of Dhaka. This is the holy confluence of the Sitalakshya, Brahmaputra, and Meghna rivers. With the arrival of the month of Chaitra, Langalbandho gears up for a four-day bathing festival wh

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