Barua (Bangladesh)

Barua are a Bengali speaking Buddhist community in Bangladesh Fact|date=May 2007 who are Buddhist. They mainly live in the Chittagong region. Many moved to Kolkata, India after partition of India in 1947; many also moved to England in the 1950s and 1960s. The plain Buddhists of Bangladesh known as the Burua-Buddhist are the ancient peoples of Bangladesh who have lived here for five thousand years according to Arakanese chronology. They insist that they came from the Aryavarta or the country of the Aryans which is practically identical to the country later known as the Majjhimadesh or Madhyadesh in Pali literature [http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/buddhistworld/bangladesh-txt.htm] . Bengali speaking Barua people of Chittagong are all Buddhist by religion, unlike Hindu Barua of Assam region in India.

ee also

* Buddhism in Bangladesh

External links

* [http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/buddhistworld/bangladesh-txt.htm Buddhists living in Chittagong]
* [http://banglapedia.org/HT/B_0326.htm Banglapedia: Barua, Benimadhab]
* [http://www.seek2know.net/kripasaran.html Karmayogi Kripasaran Mahathera] Founder of Bengal Buddhist Association (Bauddha Dharmankur Sabha) 1892, and uniter of Bengal Barua Buddhists