Peeranuch Meditation Hall

 Peeranuch Meditation Hall

Sangharaja Pandit Jyotipal Mahathero was established Barigaon Kanakchaitya Vihara. This monastery is not an ordinary monastery. The monastery has been playing a great role to uplift the social development since its inception. The reason is that he had set up schools, orphanages and multipurpose social development projects around this monastery. Needless to say, not only Buddhists, but also Hindus, Muslims, many poor and meritorious students have been educated from this institution and many of them have got the opportunity to have a good position in the society and now some of them are also high ranking government officials. The people of the society at once admitted that he had done the structural work with his direct involvement with the support of local people as the economic situation was so weak. At that time it was very difficult and expensive to get a rod or iron. So he built the then establishments with a combination of bamboo and rod. The main monastery at Barigaon had a high dome (Chetiya) on the roof and the ground floor was used for worshiping in the morning and evening.

As  the original monastery was built in  several decades ago, it was a position to collapse at any time. So, it was demolished due to security reasons. After that, for a long time, religious activities were carried out by keeping the Buddha statue in the dining room. Due to lack of funds, the villagers are not able to build new monastery. Ven. Sugato Bhikkhu, he passed his secondary school from this institution and lived from a young age. And later moved to Chittagong in the vicinity of Sangharaja. He could no longer bear this miserable condition of Barigaon Vihara and started rebuilding. He then rebuilt the monastery on a large scale with the funding of his Thai devotees. And the Peeranuch Meditation Hall is named by his devotees.