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Paharpur is a name of a village under Jamalganj upazila of Naogaon district. Naogaon is a district of greater Rajshahi. It is almost 270 km from Dhaka city.
Paharpur, it had taken its name from a high mound, which looked like Pahar or hillock. It is not a natural hill; the big hill is made by stone. The big hill is nearly 150m in height and 160m its four sides. The hill is made by pieces of stones. It is a wonder that how the stones were settled and how they collected the stones. Each and every stone was decorated by Buddha Marti. The setting is a so spectacular that makes charms the travelers.
Paharpur is a historic place of Bangladesh. It is the greatest Buddha Monastery in this sub continent. Perhaps it is the largest Buddha monastery excavated south of the Himalayas.  The archaeological department estimated that the total area of monastery is approximately 27 acres. The scientists and researchers assumed that the beginning of this history was before the birth of Jesus Christ.

The entire monastery includes a gateway, a quadrangular court which includes dormitories for students. The gateway complex is at the north of campus. The quadrangular court is well elaborate; there are in total 177 rooms in the campus. 45 and other three sides with a equal 44 rooms. The pyramidal cruciform temple is influenced by the architecture of the South – East Asia, Especially Myanmar.

There are hundreds of small rooms around the monastery where the Buddha students around the world used to come and stayed there for their educations years after years. Scientist’s researches predict that Paharpur was a university of the Buddhist and students from China, Burma, Thailand, India, Tibet, etc used to came here for higher education.

A museum is built in the campus of the monastery to houses the representative collection of objects recovered from the excavation. Some excavated findings like terracotta plaques, images of different gods and goddesses, potteries, coin inscriptions, ornamental bricks and other minor clay objects have also sent to the national museum, Dhaka and Varendra Research Museum at Rajshahi for research and preservation.

One can easily reach Paharpur from Dhaka directly by mini bus or travelers can have a trip by train from Dhaka to Joypurhut and then Joypurhut by bus to Paharpur.