Bikrampur (Munshiganj)

Bikrampur, in the Munshiganj district of modern Bangladesh, was a centre of the Pāla-era Buddhist world in eastern Bengal. It is traditionally given as the birthplace, around 982 CE, of Atiśa (Dīpaṃkara Śrījñāna), the great scholar-abbot who later travelled to Tibet and helped reinvigorate Buddhism there.