Barua (Bangladesh)

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Barua (Bangladesh)

The Barua (<a href="/en/Bengali_language" title="Bengali language" class="wl">Bengali</a>: বড়ুয়া, Boṛua; <a href="/en/Arakanese_language" title="Arakanese language" class="mw-redirect wl">Arakanese</a>: မရမာကြီး), are an ethnic group native to <a href="/en/Chittagong_Division" title="Chittagong Division" class="wl">Chittagong Division</a> in <a href="/en/Bangladesh" title="Bangladesh" class="wl">Bangladesh</a>, <a href="/en/Rakhine_State" title="Rakhine State" class="wl">Rakhine State</a> in <a href="/en/Myanmar" title="Myanmar" class="wl">Myanmar</a>, where they are known as the Maramagyi or Maramagri, and parts of Assam, West Bengal and <a href="/en/Tripura" title="Tripura" class="wl">Tripura</a> in northeast <a href="/en/India" title="India" class="wl">India</a>.<a href="#cite_note-1" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;">[1]</a><a href="#cite_note-2" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 2;">[2]</a> According to <a href="/en/Rakhine_people" title="Rakhine people" class="wl">Arakanese</a> chronology, the Barua Buddhists have lived there for five thousand years.<a href="#cite_note-3" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 3;">[3]</a> Another derivation of 'Barua' is 'Baru' and 'Arya' meaning great arya. They are commonly identified by their <a href="/en/Last_name" title="Last name" class="mw-redirect wl">last name</a>, "Barua". Barua is derived from "Baru" meaning "great" and "ua", meaning "noble rulers". In <a href="/en/Myanmar" title="Myanmar" class="wl">Myanmar</a>, the Barua is classified as one of the seven groups that make up the <a href="/en/Rakhine_people" title="Rakhine people" class="wl">Rakhine nation</a>. Originally, the Barua title is of Assamese origin.

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<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1066479718" typeof="mw:Extension/templatestyles mw:Transclusion">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-header,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-subheader,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-above,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-title,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-image,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-below{text-align:center}</style><div class='mobile-collapse'><header class="mobile-collapse-header mobile-collapse-btn">Quick facts: Total population, Regions with significant po... ▼</header> <table class="infobox vcard mobile-collapse-element"><caption class="infobox-title fn org">Barua</caption><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header notheme" style="background-color:#b0c4de;">Total population</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">1.2 million[<a href="/en/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" class="wl">citation needed</a>]</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header notheme" style="background-color:#b0c4de;">Regions with significant populations</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a href="/en/Bangladesh" title="Bangladesh" class="image wl"><img loading="lazy"alt="Bangladesh" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Flag_of_Bangladesh.svg/23px-Flag_of_Bangladesh.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" data-file-type="drawing" height="14" width="23" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Flag_of_Bangladesh.svg/35px-Flag_of_Bangladesh.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Flag_of_Bangladesh.svg/46px-Flag_of_Bangladesh.svg.png 2x"></a> <a href="/en/Bangladesh" title="Bangladesh" class="wl">Bangladesh</a> <a href="/en/Myanmar" title="Myanmar" class="image wl"><img loading="lazy"alt="Myanmar" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Flag_of_Myanmar.svg/23px-Flag_of_Myanmar.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" data-file-type="drawing" height="15" width="23" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Flag_of_Myanmar.svg/35px-Flag_of_Myanmar.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Flag_of_Myanmar.svg/45px-Flag_of_Myanmar.svg.png 2x"></a> <a href="/en/Myanmar" title="Myanmar" class="wl">Myanmar</a> <a href="/en/India" title="India" class="image wl"><img loading="lazy"alt="India" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/23px-Flag_of_India.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="1350" data-file-height="900" data-file-type="drawing" height="15" width="23" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/35px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/45px-Flag_of_India.svg.png 2x"></a> <a href="/en/India" title="India" class="wl">India</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header notheme" style="background-color:#b0c4de;">Languages</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a href="/en/Bengali_Language" title="Bengali Language" class="mw-redirect wl">Bengali</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header notheme" style="background-color:#b0c4de;">Religion</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a href="/en/Theravada" title="Theravada" class="wl">Theravada Buddhism</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <footer class='mobile-collapse-footer mobile-collapse-btn'>Close ▲</footer></div>
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<a href="/en/Chittagong" title="Chittagong" class="wl">Chittagong</a> was formerly known as "Chaityagrama" or "town with Buddhist shrines".<a href="#cite_note-4" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 4;">[4]</a> The region attracted Chinese Buddhist visitors in the 7th century. In 1929, in Jhewari village a hoard of 61 Buddhist images from 9th and 10th century was found.<a href="#cite_note-5" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 5;">[5]</a> It was a centre of <a href="/en/Buddhism" title="Buddhism" class="wl">Buddhism</a> in the 10th century.<a href="#cite_note-6" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 6;">[6]</a> <a href="/en/Taranatha" title="Taranatha" class="wl">Taranatha</a> mentions a monastery named Pinda-Vihara at Chittagong where the custom of wearing pointed caps originated.<a href="#cite_note-7" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 7;">[7]</a> The scholar Vanaratna (1384–1468 CE) who is considered the last Indian Buddhist Pandit in Tibet,<a href="#cite_note-8" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 8;">[8]</a> was born in the Chittagong district.<a href="#cite_note-9" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 9;">[9]</a> He studied in Sri Lanka, parts of the old heartland of Buddhism in present-day Bihar including Bodh Gaya, Tibet and then he settled down in the Kathmandu Valley in Nepal. He wrote in Sanskrit and Apabhramsha. Chittagong region is one of the two regions of the Indian subcontinent where Indian Buddhism has survived without interruption. They insist that they came from the Āryāvarta or the country of the Āryans which is practically identical to the country later known as Majjhimadesa or <a href="/en/Madhyadesha" title="Madhyadesha" class="wl">Madhyadesa</a> in the Pali texts.<a href="#cite_note-10" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 10;">[10]</a>

A Magh king, Jaychand, ruled the Chittagong region in the 16th century.<a href="#cite_note-11" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 11;">[11]</a>

The Barua , are an ethnic group native to Chittagong Division in Bangladesh, Rakhine State in Myanmar, where they are known as the Maramagyi or Maramagri, and parts of Assam, West Bengal and Tripura in northeast India. Another derivation of 'Barua' is 'Baru' and 'Arya' meaning great arya. They are commonly identified by their last name, "Barua". Barua is derived from "Baru" meaning "great" and "ua", meaning "noble rulers". In Myanmar, the Barua is classified as one of the seven groups that make up the Rakhine nation. Originally, the Barua title is of Assamese origin. Chittagong was formerly known as "Chaityagrama" or "town with Buddhist shrines". 