NAROPA, Odantapura (Cave of)

Bihar Sharif (Bihar - IN)
25.166700,85.500000
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Description

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

There could be a natural sacred -cave- (or rock shelter), which is reputed to have been used as a troglodyte hermitage / retreat by Naropa, the Buddhist scholare / saint. SITUATION: This unspecified cave of Naropa is said (note 1) to lie somewhere on an unidentified hill (no name mentioned) at an unspecified location in the vicinity of a place called Odantapura (note 2), which was understood to lie in an unidentified spatial relation near the town of Bihar Sharif (note 3).There could be a natural sacred -cave- (or rock shelter), which is reputed to have been used as a troglodyte hermitage / retreat by Naropa, the Buddhist scholare / saint. SITUATION: This unspecified cave of Naropa is said (note 1) to lie somewhere on an unidentified hill (no name mentioned) at an unspecified location in the vicinity of a place called Odantapura (note 2), which was understood to lie in an unidentified spatial relation near the town of Bihar Sharif (note 3).

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History

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

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