She will also visit the World Heritage Site of Paharpur, where the remains of the most important and largest known Buddhist monastery south of the Himalayas have been excavated.

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It is here, some 300 kilometers north of the Bangladeshi capital, that in the 6th century, the Pala Emperor Dharmapala built what is the second largest monastery south of the Himalayas.

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