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Contents:

• BODH GAYA
• BODH GAYA: THE SE OF THE BUDDHA’S ENLIGHTENMENT
• THGS TO DO BODH GAYA, INDIA - BODH GAYA ATTRACTNSTHGS TO DO BODH GAYA
• BODHI TREE (BODH GAYA) - ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE YOU GO
• TOP THGS TO DO BODH GAYA, BIHARPLAC TO VIS BODH GAYA
• MAHABODHI TEMPLE COMPLEX AT BODH GAYA
• BODH GAYA: THE CY OF ENLIGHTENMENT
• DM: NEW SCIENCE CENTRE AT BODH GAYA TO PROMOTE SCIENTIFIC TEMPER YOUTHS
• BODH GAYA: A MT VIS DTATN FOR EVERY TRAVELER

BODH GAYA

It is suated wt of the Phalgu River, a tributary of the Gang (Ganga) Gaya ntas one of the holit of Buddhist s: the lotn where, unr the sacred pipal, or Bo tree, Gtama Buddha (Prce Siddhartha) attaed enlightenment and beme the Buddha. This extraordary place—Bodh Gaya—is unrstood to be the se of the enlightenment, or “great awakeng” (Sanskr, mahabodhi), of Siddhartha Gtama, the Buddha.

BODH GAYA: THE SE OF THE BUDDHA’S ENLIGHTENMENT

At the heart of ancient Bodh Gaya is the Mahabodhi Temple Complex, which is by wh shr, monuments, and sculpted imag tablished over more than 2, 000 years. Siddhartha Gtama arrived at Bodh Gaya middle age, havg renounced his life as a prce on seeg the “four sights” of agg, sickns, ath, and asceticism.

Buddhist tradns diverge on some of this acunt but this moment and the place at which occurred, unr the Bodhi tree at Bodh Gaya, is signifint to all Buddhist tradns.

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As the place where the Buddha attaed enlightenment, Bodh Gaya appears to have bee a signifint place for Buddhists soon after the ath of the Buddha and the formatn of the Buddhist muny of monks and nuns (Sanskr, sangha) and lay people. Very ltle is known, however, about the earlit stctur at Bodh Gaya, and centuri of addn and alteratn make difficult to image how this se appeared at any particular moment the past. In some Buddhist tradns Bodh Gaya self is referred to simply as the “Diamond Throne” (Sanskr, vajrasana), ditg the signifince of this throne to the inty of this sacred se.

Bharhut relief wh Diamond throne and Mahabodhi Temple around the Boddhi Tree (om Sir Alexanr Cunngham, Mahâbodhi, or the great Buddhist temple unr the Bodhi tree at Buddha-Gaya, 1892).

BODHI TREE (BODH GAYA) - ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE YOU GO

This broadly agre wh the scriptn of Mahabodhi Temple given by the Che pilgrim Xuanzang who vised Bodh Gaya centuri later, at the end of the 7th century C. Depictns of the Mahabodhi Temple also suggt the creasg importance of the temple hog the Buddha image s own right as a sign for Bodh Gaya and the events there, although the Diamond Throne and the Bodhi tree ntue to be picted alongsi them. ” The scriptns, the pictns of the Mahabodhi Temple art, and other evince for royal and foreign-sponsored programs of rtoratn suggt an important shift om tree shre to the buildg of templ, shr, and monasteri at Bodh Gaya over the urse of the 1st lennium C.

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The towerg brick, stuc and ncrete temple seen at Bodh Gaya today pris a large primary straight-sid spire (Sanskr, shikhara), risg out of a central image chamber (Sanskr, garbha-griha). It is likely that some of the replis were built om the rellectns of pilgrims, if not on even small portable artworks and “mols” rried away om Bodh Gaya such as that shown mol of the temple at The Metropolan Mm of Art.

This replitn of Bodh Gaya the medieval and early morn perd Asia fds an earlier precent the acunt given the Sri Lankan chronicle (mahavamsa) which rerds how a branch of the Bodhi tree was brought to Sri Lanka and planted the cy of Anuradhapura the time of Kg Ashoka, where s scendant grows to this day. Internatnal tert Bodh Gaya creased om the 1880s onwards, particularly after the Archaeologil Survey of India rtored and landsped much of the Mahabodhi Temple Complex. It is also important to note that Bodh Gaya neighbors the major Hdu pilgrimage town of Gaya: an ancient sacred center associated wh anctor r (Sanskr, shraddha).

Relatnships at Bodh Gaya beme straed the late 19th and early 20th century, and the ownership and thory of the Mahabodhi Temple particular beme ntted.

MAHABODHI TEMPLE COMPLEX AT BODH GAYA

It was ially orr to “reclaim Bodh Gaya for Buddhists” that the Sri Lankan-born Buddhist revivalist Anagarika Dharmapala tablished the Maha Bodhi Society Colombo, Sri Lanka, 1891.

After a lengthy legal battle, the qutn of ownership of the Mahabodhi Temple Complex was partially rolved 1949 after the Indian Government assumed ntrol of the se for the State of Bihar and tablished the Bodh Gaya Temple Management Commtee (BTMC), which was posed of both Hdu and Buddhist members. While s new stat as “World Herage” brought ternatnal attentn and renown to Bodh Gaya, has also ed some ncern that the spirual and votnal character of Bodh Gaya will be altered and even that Bodh Gaya will be “mmized”—s built remas beg prerved at the expense of the range of sacred, votnal, and archectural practic that have characterized the place for more than 2, 000 years. The Bodhi tree, the railg, and the Diamond Throne rema at Bodh Gaya alongsi the towerg temple, the Buddha image, the Shaiva Mahant’s rince and — a hotel and a mm.

BODH GAYA: THE CY OF ENLIGHTENMENT

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Sandy_JSRJamshedpur, India1, 550 ntributnsChe Temple Bodh Gaya is a notable Buddhist monastery Bodh Gaya and suated near to the Mahabodhi Temple.

Sandy_JSRJamshedpur, India1, 550 ntributnsDungwari hill, also known as Mahakala v, are suated around 20 km away om Bodh Gaya, needs hired vehicle for vis. For Buddhists, Bodh Gaya is the most important of the four ma pilgrimage s related to the life of Gtama Buddha, the other three beg Lumbi, Sarnath, and Khagar. Wrten Febary 5, 2020Sandy_JSRJamshedpur, India1, 550 ntributnsBanyan Tree unr which Gtam Buddha Attaed EnlightmentThe Bodhi tree at Bodhgaya is directly nnected to the life of Buddha, who attaed enlightenment while medatg unr this banyan tree.

Sandy_JSRJamshedpur, India1, 550 ntributnsMar 2022The Bodhi tree at Bodhgaya is directly nnected to the life of Buddha, who attaed enlightenment while medatg unr this banyan tree. Acrdg to legend, after several years of wanrg, ascetics practice, and ntemplatn on the nature of the universe, the Prce Gtama found himself Bodh Gaya, were he sat beneath a “great tree to engage ultimate medatn.

BODH GAYA: A MT VIS DTATN FOR EVERY TRAVELER

Years later, after the Buddha announced “his imment ath” he admonished to his follower to go on pilgrimag to four plac, one of which was Bodh Gaya, the place of his enlightenment[iv]. The sred history and “official” history of Bodh Gaya are extremely ternnected, given that Buddha is both a powerful relig figure and a historil person.

However, by around 1230 is documented that Bodh Gaya had slipped out of Buddhist ntrol, and had bee an active place of Hdu worship unr the directn of a Shaive sect, who foc their worship on the god Shiva[vi]. It should be noted that by the sixteenth century, Buddhist practic were still be upheld and staed by donatns om pilgrims to the se, but for the most part, Bodh Gaya remaed out of Buddhist ntrol until the Buddhist “revival” the late 19th century. Due to the vast number of addns throughout history, renstctns, chang and adaptatns there are numero templ, shr, monuments, sculptur and rvgs wh the Mahabodhi temple pound at Bodh Gaya.

For example, the sixth century, durg a time which is documented that Bodh Gaya was quiet a large and popular temple, a muny of Shale Buddhist monks asserted nsirable ntrol over the se[x] most important thg to note about the people who mataed and ran ruals, practice, and general “up keepg” of the se throughout history has mostly been the rponsible of the pilgrims who me to the se. The Mahabodhi Temple Complex, Bodh Gaya li 115 km south of the state pal of Bihar, Patna and 16 km om the district headquarters at Gaya, Eastern India. The prent Mahabodhi Temple Complex at Bodh Gaya pris the 50 m high grand Temple, the Vajrasana, sacred Bodhi Tree and other six sacred s of Buddha's enlightenment, surround by numero ancient Votive stupas, well mataed and protected by ner, middle and outer circular boundari.