Peeranuch Meditation Hall
Sangharaja Pandit Jyotipal Mahathero established Barigaon Kanakchaitya Vihara. This monastery is not an ordinary monastery. The monastery has been playing a great role in uplifting 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, and many poor and meritorious students have been educated from this institution, and many of them have had the opportunity to have a good position in 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 an iron. So he built the establishments with a combination of bamboo and rods. The main monastery at Barigaon had a high dome (Chetiya) on the roof, and the ground floor was used for worship in the morning and evening.
As the original monastery was built several decades ago, it was in a position to collapse at any time. So, it was demolished for security reasons. After that, for a long time, religious activities were carried out by keeping the Buddha statue in the dining room. Due to a lack of funds, the villagers are not able to build a 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. The Peeranuch Meditation Hall is named by his devotees.
