Bankipore: 1 definition
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Bankipore means something in Buddhism, Pali. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
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Source: Wisdom Library: BuddhismBankipore refers to one of the places visited by Dharmapāla during his tour of North India. Anāgārika Dharmapāla (born 1864) was a Ceylonese Buddhist who travelled across India and beyond, spreading Buddhism. According to Bhikkhu Sangharakshita in his Biographical Sketc, “he travelled as a pilgrim, not caring at all for comforts, mixing with the sanyasins, ascetics, Hindu pilgrims, and with passengers of the third and intermediate classes, eating at times the poorest food, sleeping at times in places where the poor sleep and gaining an insight into the characteristics of the poor classes, who are suffering from intense ignorance, superstition and poverty”.
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The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda (by Srila Narayana Maharaja)
Xiv sir < [Epistles - Second Series]
Memoirs of European Travel I < [Translation of Writings]
President Jawaharlal < [November-December, 1929]
Islamic Contribution to Library Movement < [May-June 1931]
The Spirit of Spring < [October 1987 – March 1989]
Brihaspati Samhita (abridged version) < [Purana, Volume 8, Part 2 (1966)]
History of Science in South Asia
Sanskrit Recension of Persian Astronomy < [Vol. 10 (2022)]