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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 (Buddhism)|Sangha]], the Buddhist monastic community dwells.  

Famous sangharāma were that of [[Kukkutarama]] in [[Pataliputra]] and Vālukārāma of [[Vaishali (ancient city)|Vesali]]. Valukarama<ref>[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.100305/page/n205/mode/1up ‘Vaishali’]. An Early History Of Vaisali by Mishra,yogendra 1962. Retrieved 2023-07-19</ref> Sangharama in [[Vaishali (ancient city)|Vesali]] was the site of [[Buddhist councils|second Buddhist Council]] under Kalasoka.

[[Kukkutarama]] sangharāma in [[Pataliputra]] was the site of [[Buddhist councils|third Buddhist Council]] under the patronage of [[Ashoka]] <ref>[http://rguir.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/123456789/16796/1/9781984667960.pdf ‘Third Buddhist Council’]. INDIAN HISTORY 3RD CENTURY BCE by Theodore Thompson. Retrieved 2023-07-17</ref>. The [[Kukkutarama]] sangharāma was later destroyed and its monks killed by [[Pushyamitra]] of [[Shunga Empire|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."<ref>Ashokavadana, 133, trans. John Strong.</ref>

Other important Sangharamas were Veluwana-arama of Rajagaha, Paribhajak-arama near Rajgriha, Ghositarama at Kausambi, Nigrodharama at Kapilvatthu,etc<ref>[http://heritageuniversityofkerala.com/JournalPDF/Volume7/49.pdf ‘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</ref>.  

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[[Category:Buddhist temples]]

[[Category:Buddhist monasteries in India]]