Sangharama
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Sangharama' (Sanskrit: संघराम Saṃgharāma) refers to a "temple" or "monastery." It is the place, including its garden or grove, where the Sangha, the Buddhist monastic community dwells.
Famous sangharāma were that of Kukkutarama in Pataliputra and Vālukārāma of Vesali. Valukarama[1] Sangharama in Vesali was the site of second Buddhist Council under Kalasoka.
Kukkutarama sangharāma in Pataliputra was the site of third Buddhist Council under the patronage of Ashoka [2]. The Kukkutarama sangharāma was later destroyed and its monks killed by Pushyamitra of Shunga Dynasty, according to the second century Ashokavadana. "Then King Pushyamitra equipped a fourfold army, and intending to destroy the Buddhist religion, he went to the Kukkutarama. (...) Pushyamitra therefore destroyed the sangharāma, killed the monks there, and departed."[3]
Other important Sangharamas were Veluwana-arama of Rajagaha, Paribhajak-arama near Rajgriha, Ghositarama at Kausambi, Nigrodharama at Kapilvatthu,etc[4].
Notes
- ↑ ‘Vaishali’. An Early History Of Vaisali by Mishra,yogendra 1962. Retrieved 2023-07-19
- ↑ ‘Third Buddhist Council’. INDIAN HISTORY 3RD CENTURY BCE by Theodore Thompson. Retrieved 2023-07-17
- ↑ Ashokavadana, 133, trans. John Strong.
- ↑ ‘Structural Vihar: Abode of Buddhist Monks and Its Stages of Development’. Heritage: Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies in Archaeology 7 (2019): 772-790. Retrieved 2023-07-19
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