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• BODH GAYA: THE SE OF THE BUDDHA’S ENLIGHTENMENT
• BODH GAYA
• BUDDHA-GAYāBUDDHA-GAYā
• MAHABODHI TEMPLE COMPLEX AT BODH GAYA
• BODH GAYA: THE CY OF ENLIGHTENMENT BODH GAYA BEFORE 1899, BIHAR | © BOURNE & SHEPHERD, CALCUTTA/WIKICOMMONS SANGA SHA 03 JANUARY 2017 COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT SUATED BY THE BANK OF RIVER NERANJANA, THE INDIAN STATE OF BIHAR, LI THE SMALL TOWN OF BODH GAYA. BODH GAYA, OR BUDDHA-GAYA AS WAS POPULARLY LLED THE 19TH CENTURY, IS A SACRED PLACE FOR BUDDHISTS ALL OVER THE WORLD, AS THIS IS WHERE PRCE SIDDHARTHA BEME BUDDHA, THE ENLIGHTENED ONE. OF THE FOUR FAMO PILGRIMAGE S – THE OTHER THREE BEG LUMBI, WHERE SIDDHARTHA WAS BORN, KINAGAR, WHERE HE ENTERED NIRVANA AND SARNATH, WHERE HE HAD HIS FIRST SERMON — BODH GAYA IS THE MOST VISED ONE. BODH GAYA IS AS IMPORTANT TO BUDDHISM AS JESALEM AND MEC ARE TO THE OTHER GREAT RELIGNS OF THE WORLD. BUDDHISM HAS TRANSFORMED THE LIV OF LNS OF PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD, PECIALLY SOUTH EAST ASIA, CENTRAL ASIA, CHA, TIBET, KOREA AND JAPAN. IT IS THE FOURTH MOST FOLLOWED RELIGNS THE WORLD AND HAS AROUND 495 LN BELIEVERS, NSTUTG 7- 8% OF THE WORLD’S POPULATN AS OF 2010. VIEW ALL TRIPS HISTORY KNOWN AS UVILVA, AFTER BUDDHA’S ENLIGHTENMENT THE SE HAS BEEN KNOWN BY VAR NAM BASED ON THIS HISTORIC EVENT. WH TWO CENTURI OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT, THE NAME UVELA WAS REPLACED BY NEW ON LIKE SAMBODHI (MEANG ‘COMPLETE ENLIGHTENMENT’), BODHIMANDA (‘AWAKENG POSN’), VAJRASANA (MEANG ‘DIAMOND THRONE’) AND MAHABODHI (MEANG ‘GREAT ENLIGHTENMENT’). THE CY WAS NAMED SAMBODHI WHEN THE EMPEROR ASOKA MA A PILGRIMAGE TO THE SE THE YEAR 260 BC, THE 10TH YEAR OF HIS REIGN. HE CID TO BUILD A TEMPLE STCTURE TO MEMORATE BUDDHA’S ENLIGHTENMENT. THE FIRST TEMPLE STCTURE WAS AN OPEN PAVILN SUPPORTED ON PILLARS AND THE MIDDLE WAS THE VAJRASANA THRONE, THE ORIGAL SPOT UPON WHICH THE BUDDHA IS BELIEVED TO HAVE SAT AND MEDATED. OVER THE YEARS, THE TEMPLE WAS RENOVATED MANY TIM AND THE CURRENT STCTURE DAT TO THE GUPTA PERD THE 6TH CENTURY AD. HIN TSANG, THE CHE TRAVELER, IS SAID TO HAVE VISED THE CY THE 7TH CENTURY AND RERD THE EXISTENCE OF THE TEMPLE. TAKE A SP TO FD YOUR PERFECT SMALL-GROUP TRIP STATN PASSPORTS READY? YOUR NEXT STATN IS... VIEW TRIP SP MEXI EGYPT SOUTH AI SPA INDIA CROATIA ECUADOR TURKEY ICELAND GREECE JAPAN BALI MOROC THAILAND SAMBODHI DWAAR, BODHGAYA | © SANGA SHA HOWEVER, BY THE 13TH CENTURY, BUDDHISM BEGAN TO CLE, TERT THE CY WANED, AND THE TEMPLE WAS LOST THE S. IN THE LATE 19TH-CENTURY, BODH GAYA WAS REDISVERED DUE TO LARGE SLE EXVATNS AND RENSTCTNS RRIED OUT BY ALEXANR CUNNGHAM, A RETIRED BRISH ARMY ENGEER WH AN TERT ARCHAEOLOGY AND ANTIQUY. THIS TIME, THE CY WAS NAMED BUDDHA GAYA OR BODH GAYA. EVEN THOUGH IS MALY RENOWNED FOR THE MAHABODHI TEMPLE AND COMPLEX, BODHGAYA IS A SMALL TOURIST TOWN TEEMG WH MONASTERI AND TEMPL BUILT BY NEARLY EVERY BUDDHIST UNTRY TO MARK THEIR PRENCE. MAHABODHI TEMPLE COMPLEX A UNESCO WORLD HERAGE SE, THE MAHABODHI TEMPLE COMPLEX, NSISTS OF THE TEMPLE, BODHI TREE (WHERE BUDDHA ATTAED ENLIGHTENMENT) AND SIX OTHER SACRED SPOTS. AS CUNNIGHAM WROTE ABOUT HIS EXVATNS: ‘BUT THE MOST IMPORTANT DISVERY WAS THE FACT THAT THE PRENT TEMPLE IS BUILT EXACTLY OVER THE REMAS OF ASOKA’S TEMPLE, SO THAT THE ORIGAL VAJRASANA THRONE STILL RETAS S OLD POSN OF THE BUDDHA’S SEAT, AND THE REPUTED CENTRE OF THE UNIVERSE’. THE TEMPLE COMPLEX, SURROUND BY A 11 FOOT HIGH BOUNDARY WALL, IS FIVE METERS BELOW THE LAND AND APPROACHED BY A FLIGHT OF STEPS LEADG DOWN. FURTHER ALONG, A CENTRAL PATH LEADS UP TO THE TEMPLE. MANY BELIEVE THIS WILL BE THE LAST SE TO GO DOWN BEFORE THE STCTN OF THE UNIVERSE AND THE FIRST ONE TO REAPPEAR ON A NEW BEGNG. CARIBBEAN COLOMBIA DISVER COLOMBIA’S CARIBBEAN AST, OM CARTAGENA TO PALOMO VIA JUNGL, RIVERS AND ISLANDS. VIEW TRIP MAHABODHI TEMPLE, BODHGAYA | © MATT STABILE/FLICKR NEXT TO THE TEMPLE IS THE BODHI TREE, SURROUND BY RAILGS TO AVOID ANY DAMAGE. THE CURRENT BODHI TREE IS A SAPLG OF A TREE OM SRI LANKA, WHICH WAS GROWN OM THE ORIGAL BODHI TREE OF BODH GAYA, ACTUALLY SAID TO BE PLANTED BY CUNNGHAM HIMSELF. BODHITREE, BODHGAYA | © MATT STABILE/FLICKR THE SEVEN SACRED SPOTS THE TEMPLE PLEX, WHERE BUDDHA MEDATED FOR SEVEN WEEKS AFTER HE HAD ATTAED WISDOM, ARE CLEARLY MARKED WH SCRIPTNS, ALONG WH THE LOT POND WHERE BUDDHA MEDATED THE SIXTH WEEK FOLLOWG HIS ENLIGHTENMENT. IT IS SAID THERE WAS A HUGE STORM AND THE SERPENT KG, MUCHALDA, ME OUT AND HELD HIS HOOD OVER BUDDHA TO PROTECT HIM. EVERYWHERE THERE ARE MONKS MEDATG AND PILGRIMS PRAYG AND LIGHTG THE BUTTER LAMPS ACROSS VAR SACRED SPOTS. VISORS N WALK AROUND THE WHOLE TEMPLE PLEX SOAKG THE SACRED VIB OF THE PLACE. BEE A CULTURE TRIPPER! SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO SAVE UP TO 40% ON OUR UNIQUE TRIPS. SIGN UP SEE PRIVACY POLICY. MUCHALDA INSCRIPTN, TEMPLE COMPLEX | © MATT STABILE/FLICKR APART OM, S CULTURAL IMPORTANCE, THE MAHABDOHI TEMPLE IS KNOWN FOR S ARCHECTURE. THIS IS ONE OF THE FIRST AND MOST WELL PRERVED TEMPLE STCTUR MA PLETELY WH BRICK. ALTHOUGH EARLY BUDDHIST V AND TEMPL DO EXIST, THIS IS THE MOST IMPOSG OF THEM ALL. TOURIST TIP: EARLY MORNGS AND LATE EVENGS ARE THE BT TIME TO EXPLORE THE SPRAWLG MP, AS WALKG BAREFOOT ON THE MARBLE FLOOR THE INDIAN HEAT N BE A DNTG TASK. CARRY YOUR MERAS ALONG IF YOU WANT PHOTOS, AS PHON ARE STRICTLY NOT ALLOWED. MONASTERI MONASTERI BUILT BY VAR BUDDHIST UNTRI, EACH ONE TRYG TO OUTDO ANOTHER, ARE A GREAT ATTRACTN ALL OVER BODH GAYA. OF THE MANY NOTABL, THE THAI AND BHUTAN MONASTERI ARE A MT VIS. THE THAI MONASTERY, BUILT 1956, IS KNOWN FOR S GOLN BUDDHA STATUE, WHILE THE BHUTANE MONASTERY IS KNOWN FOR S TRITE RVGS. THE TIBETAN MONASTERY IS KNOWN FOR S GIANT PRAYER WHEEL. TOURIST TIP: MOST OF THE MONASTERI CLOSE DURG AFTERNOON HOURS AND ALSO EARLY THE EVENG, SO EARLY MORNG VISS ARE REMEND. THAI MONASTERY, BODHGAYA | © SANGA SHA GRAND BUDDHA STATUE KNOWN AS THE 80 FEET BUDDHA, STG MEDATN ON A LOT, THIS WAS THE LARGT BUDDHA STATUE INDIA WHEN WAS GURATED BY THE CURRENT DALAI LAMA 1989. BUILT OVER A PERD OF SEVEN YEARS WH THE HELP OF 12,000 MASONS AND SUATED NEXT TO THE MAHABODHI TEMPLE COMPLEX, THIS STATUE MAK YOU FEEL LIKE A SPECK SPACE. VIS TO ADMIRE S MEDATIVE SIMPLICY. GREAT BUDDHA STATUE, BODHGAYA | © SANGA SHA ARCHAEOLOGIL SOCIETY OF MM INGURATED 2010 BY THE CURRENT DALAI LAMA, THE MM IS MOST FAMO FOR THE ORIGAL RAILGS WHICH SURROUND THE BODHI TREE, MA OF SANDSTONE AND DATG BACK TO ASHOKA’S EMPIRE. THE MM ALSO HO OTHER ARTIFACTS REVERED DURG THE EXTENSIVE EXVATNS OF THE AREA. BODHGAYA IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT STOPS ON THE BUDDHISM TOURIST CIRCU. HOWEVER, THE NALANDA S (BUDDHIST MAHAVIHARAS AND ONE OF THE OLST ANCIENT UNIVERSI THE WORLD) AND THE XUANXANG MEMORIALS ARE AS IMPORTANT AND MAKE FOR A MEMORABLE DAY TRIP. HIUEN TSANG, BODHGAYA | © SANGA SHA VOLNIC ICELAND EPIC TRIP MEET OUR LOL INSIR HANNA HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A GUIDE? 2 YEARS. WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT YOUR JOB? IT'S THE PERSONAL NTACT, THE PERSONAL EXPERIENC. I LOVE MEETG PEOPLE OM ALL OVER THE WORLD... I REALLY LIKE GETTG TO KNOW EVERYONE AND FEELG LIKE I'M TRAVELG WH A GROUP OF IENDS. WHAT DESTINATION IS ON YOUR TRAVEL BUCKET-LIST? I HAVE SO MANY PLAC ON MY LIST, BUT I WOULD REALLY LOBE TO GO TO AI. I NSIR MYSELF AN “ADVENTURE GIRL” AND AI FEELS LIKE THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE! EVERY CULTURE TRIP SMALL-GROUP ADVENTURE IS LED BY A LOL INSIR JT LIKE HANNA. SEE OUR CULTURE TRIPS KEEN TO EXPLORE THE WORLD?
• THE 10 BEST BODH GAYA TOURS & EXCURSNSBODH GAYA TOURS
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THIS NUMBER IS BASED ON THE PERCENTAGE OF ALL TRIPADVISOR REVIEWS FOR THIS PRODUCT THAT HAVE A BUBBLE RATG OF 4 OR HIGHER.B TOURSOM ₹3,200.00 PER GROUP (UP TO 3)GUID VIRTUAL TOUR OF BODHGAYA17REMEND100% OF TRAVELLERS REMEND THIS EXPERIENCE. THIS NUMBER IS BASED ON THE PERCENTAGE OF ALL TRIPADVISOR REVIEWS FOR THIS PRODUCT THAT HAVE A BUBBLE RATG OF 4 OR HIGHER.HISTORIL TOURSOM ₹2,256.87 PER GROUP (UP TO 5)BODHGAYA DAY TOUR (HOTEL PICKUP)8HISTORIL TOURSOM ₹2,800.00 PER GROUP (UP TO 3)BUDDHIST TOUR FROM THE BIRTH TO DEATH4B TOURSOM ₹1,33,590.50 PER ADULTPDDAAN AT GAYA1B TOURSOM ₹11,283.52 PER GROUP (UP TO 3)EXCLIVE GUID TOUR OF BODH GAYA2B TOURSOM ₹19,181.31 PER GROUP (UP TO 3)ZIARAH BUDDHA 9 NIGHTS 10 DAYS TRIP BY PRIVATE CAR4WD TOURSOM ₹63,906.67 PER ADULT (PRICE VARI BY GROUP SIZE)ZIARAH BUDDHA 9 NIGHTS 10 DAYS TRIP BY PRIVATE CAR4WD TOURSOM ₹84,622.18 PER ADULT (PRICE VARI BY GROUP SIZE)LIKELY TO SELL OUT*7 DAYS VARANASI TO LUMBI BUDDHIST EXPEDN ( ALL INCLIVE )5B TOURSOM ₹70,000.00 PER ADULT (PRICE VARI BY GROUP SIZE)10 DAYS PRIVATE BUDDHIST CIRCU TOUR VARANASI B TOURSOM ₹75,000.00 PER ADULTTHE AREA FULL VIEWBT NEARBYRTRANTS50 WH 5 KMSNIRVANA THE VEG CAFE2330.5 KM₹₹ - ₹₹₹ • INDIAN • CAFE • FAST FOODMAYA HERAGE RTRANT550.3 KM₹ • INDIAN • INTERNATNAL • ASIANTHE BODHGAYA HOTEL SCHOOL RTRANT60.2 KM₹ • INDIAN • INTERNATNALSUJATA RTRANT BODHGAYA80.4 KM₹₹ - ₹₹₹ • CHE • JAPANE • AMERINAMRAPALI RTRANT10.2 KMINDIANROSE APPLE CAFE280.5 KM₹ • CAFE • VEGETARIAN FRIENDLY • VEGAN OPTNSALICE GAYA CAFE & BISTRO210.5 KM₹ • CHE • PIZZA • CAFEBODHGAYA CY FE150.5 KM₹₹ - ₹₹₹ • CHE • AMERIN • ASIANMAYA ROOFTOP RTRANT160.6 KM₹₹ - ₹₹₹ • CHE • JAPANE • INDIANSEVEN MONKS CAFE30.5 KM₹ • CHE • INDIAN • INTERNATNALSEE ALLATTRACTNS27 WH 10 KMSDAIJOKYO BUDDHIST TEMPLE1799 MRELIG SBSH-JI TEMPLE90.2 KMRELIG SINDOSAN NIPPON JAPANE TEMPLE1010.2 KMRELIG SROYAL BHUTAN MONASTERY1290.3 KMRELIG STHAI MONASTERY1920.5 KMRELIG SBODHI TREE5271.1 KMPOTS OF INTERT & LANDMARKSMAHABODHI TEMPLE1,0231.2 KMARCHECTURAL BUILDGS • RELIG SMAYA SAROVAR PARK10.5 KMPARKSROOT INSTUTE610.8 KMRELIG S • EDUTNAL SARCHAEOLOGIL SOCIETY OF INDIA MM390.7 KMHISTORY MMSSEE ALLCONTRIBUTEWRE A REVIEWUPLOAD A PHOTOREVIEWSQ&AFILTERSENGLISHMOST RECENTDETAILED REVIEWS: REVIEWS ORR RMED BY SCRIPTIVENS OF ER-INTIFIED THEM SUCH AS CLEANLS, ATMOSPHERE, GENERAL TIPS AND LOTN RMATN.POPULAR MENTNSOPEN AIRBETIFUL PLACE TO VISBUDDHIST PILGRIMAGEDISCIPLBUDDHAPOSELOTSTATMEDATNTOURISTS4.5370 REVIEWSEXCELLENT211VERY GOOD120AVERAGE36POOR2TERRIBLE1BISHAL C1 NTRIBUTN0GOOD PLACE TO VIS OCT 2022 • FRIENDSWHAT A BETIFUL PLACE TO VIS THERE.I WAS TOTALLY DIFFERENT OM OTHER PLAC. I LOVE TO VIS THAT PLACE . WHAT A LOVELY SCENERY.I HAVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE.READ MOREWRTEN 25 MAY 2023THIS REVIEW IS THE SUBJECTIVE OPN OF A TRIPADVISOR MEMBER AND NOT OF TRIPADVISOR LLC. TRIPADVISOR PERFORMS CHECKS ON REVIEWS AS PART OF OUR DTRY-LEADG TST & SAFETY STANDARDS. READ OUR TRANSPARENCY REPORT TO LEARN MORE.SANDY_JSRJAMSHEDPUR, INDIA1,564 NTRIBUTNS1POPULARLY KNOWN AS 80 F BUDDHAMAR 2022THE GREAT BUDDHA STATUE, POPULARLY KNOWN AS 80 F BUDDHA, IS ONE OF THE POPULAR STATNS BODH GAYA FOR TOURISTS AND THE BUDDHIST PILGRIMAGE. THE TALL STAT REPRENTG THE BUDDHA SEATED A MEDATN POSE, ON A LOT THE OPEN AIR. PRENTLY, SOME BLACK SPOTS ULD BE SEEN ON THE FACE OF BUDDHA, DON’T KNOW WHY, MAY BE NEEDG SOME BETTER MATENANCE. THE GREAT BUDDHA STATUE IS LOTED A GARN AT THE END OF TEMPLE STREET AND IS SURROUND BY SMALLER SCULPTUR OF BUDDHA'S TEN PRCIPAL DISCIPL, FIVE ON EACH SI. THE ENTIRE PLEX IS NEATLY MATAED. AVOID VIS THE SUMMER AFTERNOON, AS THE MARBLE FLOORG BE VERY HOT AND IMPOSSIBLE TO WALK BAREFOOTED NEAR THE STATUE. SEVERAL SOUVENIR / SNACKS & ICE-CREAM STALLS ARE AVAILABLE JT OUTSI THE PLEX.READ MOREWRTEN 9 APRIL 2022THIS REVIEW IS THE SUBJECTIVE OPN OF A TRIPADVISOR MEMBER AND NOT OF TRIPADVISOR LLC. TRIPADVISOR PERFORMS CHECKS ON REVIEWS AS PART OF OUR DTRY-LEADG TST & SAFETY STANDARDS. READ OUR TRANSPARENCY REPORT TO LEARN MORE.ARKA_ADKOLKATA (CALCUTTA), INDIA240 NTRIBUTNS0LANDMARK OF BODHGAYAOCT 2021 • FAYTHIS 80 FEET HIGH STONE SCULPTURE OF LORD BUDDHA AT 'MEDATN' POSE IS ONE OF THE LANDMARK OF BODHGAYA.THE STATUE WAS NSTCTED THE YEAR 1989 AND SCE THEN ATTRACTS THE TOURISTS VISG BODHGAYA. SUATED ON A STREET WH FEW OTHER TEMPL AT A RNER OF THE SMALL TOWN, THIS IS ALSO NOT FAR AWAY OM THE MAHABODHI TEMPLE AND A MT SEE FOR ALL.READ MOREWRTEN 31 OCTOBER 2021THIS REVIEW IS THE SUBJECTIVE OPN OF A TRIPADVISOR MEMBER AND NOT OF TRIPADVISOR LLC. TRIPADVISOR PERFORMS CHECKS ON REVIEWS AS PART OF OUR DTRY-LEADG TST & SAFETY STANDARDS. READ OUR TRANSPARENCY REPORT TO LEARN MORE.POORNIMA SHENOYPATNA, INDIA49 NTRIBUTNS2AMAZG STATUENOV 2020ONE OF THE FEW PLAC THAT WE ULD ENJOY SPE BEG LOCKED FOR VISORS . WE ACTUALLY WALKED ROUND THE PERIMETER , LOOKG AT OM ALL SIS WERE AMAZED WH THE SIMPLISTIC BETY OF THE STATUE OF BUDDHA AND HIS FOLLOWERS READ MOREWRTEN 24 NOVEMBER 2020THIS REVIEW IS THE SUBJECTIVE OPN OF A TRIPADVISOR MEMBER AND NOT OF TRIPADVISOR LLC. TRIPADVISOR PERFORMS CHECKS ON REVIEWS AS PART OF OUR DTRY-LEADG TST & SAFETY STANDARDS. READ OUR TRANSPARENCY REPORT TO LEARN MORE.CORVID NAMASTEVANUVER, CANADA317 NTRIBUTNS0BETIFUL JAN 2020 • FRIENDSENJOYED THE DAY WALKG, SEEG THE AREA! THE BUDDHA STATUE IS 80 FEET MAJTIC. WE ENJOYED EVERY MOMENT.READ MOREWRTEN 1 FEBARY 2020THIS REVIEW IS THE SUBJECTIVE OPN OF A TRIPADVISOR MEMBER AND NOT OF TRIPADVISOR LLC. TRIPADVISOR PERFORMS CHECKS ON REVIEWS AS PART OF OUR DTRY-LEADG TST & SAFETY STANDARDS. READ OUR TRANSPARENCY REPORT TO LEARN REKA66BANG SAO THONG, THAILAND82 NTRIBUTNS2GIANT BUDDHA IMPRSIVEJAN 2020THE GIANT BUDDHA >85 FEET TALL IS SUATED LS THAN 1KM OM BODHGAYA OLD TOWN CENTRE. IT IS AN IMPRSIVE STCTURE BUILT FOR THE JAPANE BUDDHISTS SI A SMALLPARK.READ MOREWRTEN 26 JANUARY 2020THIS REVIEW IS THE SUBJECTIVE OPN OF A TRIPADVISOR MEMBER AND NOT OF TRIPADVISOR LLC. TRIPADVISOR PERFORMS CHECKS ON REVIEWS AS PART OF OUR DTRY-LEADG TST & SAFETY STANDARDS. READ OUR TRANSPARENCY REPORT TO LEARN MORE.BUJJI53TELANGANA, INDIA222 NTRIBUTNS2A BETIFUL STATUEDEC 2019THIS MAGNIFICENT STATUE IS LOTED AT THE WRONG PLACE BEE S SERENY AND ATHETICS ARE SPOILT BY HIGH TENSN POWER L RIGHT BEHD . HAS NO HISTORIL VALUE.READ MOREWRTEN 22 JANUARY 2020THIS REVIEW IS THE SUBJECTIVE OPN OF A TRIPADVISOR MEMBER AND NOT OF TRIPADVISOR LLC. TRIPADVISOR PERFORMS CHECKS ON REVIEWS AS PART OF OUR DTRY-LEADG TST & SAFETY STANDARDS. READ OUR TRANSPARENCY REPORT TO LEARN MORE.JAJABORGUWAHATI, INDIA1,473 NTRIBUTNS0ONE OF THE BIGDEC 2019 • FRIENDSTHIS IS ONE OF THE BIGGT STATUE OF LORD BUDDHA. IT IS NEAR THE GREAT MAHABODHI TEMPLE. IT HAS FIX TIMG OF OPENG AND CLOSG FOR VISORS READ MOREWRTEN 14 JANUARY 2020THIS REVIEW IS THE SUBJECTIVE OPN OF A TRIPADVISOR MEMBER AND NOT OF TRIPADVISOR LLC. TRIPADVISOR PERFORMS CHECKS ON REVIEWS AS PART OF OUR DTRY-LEADG TST & SAFETY STANDARDS. READ OUR TRANSPARENCY REPORT TO LEARN MORE.BASAB RAY CHDHURIKOLKATA (CALCUTTA), INDIA788 NTRIBUTNS0ATTRACTIVE TOURIST STATN JAN 2020 • FRIENDSTHE 87 FT HIGH BUDDHA STATUE IS BUILT AT BODHGAYA. THE STATUE HAS ARCHECTURAL VALUE. A MT VIS PLACE AT BODHGAYA. READ MOREWRTEN 11 JANUARY 2020THIS REVIEW IS THE SUBJECTIVE OPN OF A TRIPADVISOR MEMBER AND NOT OF TRIPADVISOR LLC. TRIPADVISOR PERFORMS CHECKS ON REVIEWS AS PART OF OUR DTRY-LEADG TST & SAFETY STANDARDS. READ OUR TRANSPARENCY REPORT TO LEARN MORE.PATTI ROAKLAND, CA13 NTRIBUTNS05 MUT OR 2 HOURSNOV 2019YOU N VIS THIS GREAT BUDDHA AND SAY WOW AND WALK AWAY. OR YOU N TAKE THE TIME TO NNECT, CHANT OR MEDATE. ADDNALLY YOU N WALK AROUND SLOWLY AND LEARN THE MEANG OF DIFFERENT HAND PLACEMENTS. THIS BUDDHA RONAT VERY STRONG ENERGY.READ MOREWRTEN 23 NOVEMBER 2019THIS REVIEW IS THE SUBJECTIVE OPN OF A TRIPADVISOR MEMBER AND NOT OF TRIPADVISOR LLC. TRIPADVISOR PERFORMS CHECKS ON REVIEWS AS PART OF OUR DTRY-LEADG TST & SAFETY STANDARDS. READ OUR TRANSPARENCY REPORT TO LEARN MORE.12…SHOWG RULTS 1-10 OF 302MICHELLE RCARDIFF, UK23 NTRIBUTNSIS SAFE TO WANR AROUND BODH GAYA BETWEEN THE STATUE AND THE MAHABODHI TEMPLE? OR SHOULD WE ARRANGE A DRIVER? GILLVILLAKMATARAM, INDONIA35 NTRIBUTNSPERFECTLY SAFE DURG THE DAY. BE MORE REFUL AFTER DARK. AT THIS TIME OF YEAR, JANUARY, THERE IS NO NEED TO WORRY ABOUT THE HEAT. 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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. 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. 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.

BODH GAYA

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).

BUDDHA-GAYāBUDDHA-GAYā

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. 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).

MAHABODHI TEMPLE COMPLEX AT BODH GAYA

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.

BODH GAYA: THE CY OF ENLIGHTENMENT BODH GAYA BEFORE 1899, BIHAR | © BOURNE & SHEPHERD, CALCUTTA/WIKICOMMONS SANGA SHA 03 JANUARY 2017 COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT SUATED BY THE BANK OF RIVER NERANJANA, THE INDIAN STATE OF BIHAR, LI THE SMALL TOWN OF BODH GAYA. BODH GAYA, OR BUDDHA-GAYA AS WAS POPULARLY LLED THE 19TH CENTURY, IS A SACRED PLACE FOR BUDDHISTS ALL OVER THE WORLD, AS THIS IS WHERE PRCE SIDDHARTHA BEME BUDDHA, THE ENLIGHTENED ONE. OF THE FOUR FAMO PILGRIMAGE S – THE OTHER THREE BEG LUMBI, WHERE SIDDHARTHA WAS BORN, KINAGAR, WHERE HE ENTERED NIRVANA AND SARNATH, WHERE HE HAD HIS FIRST SERMON — BODH GAYA IS THE MOST VISED ONE. BODH GAYA IS AS IMPORTANT TO BUDDHISM AS JESALEM AND MEC ARE TO THE OTHER GREAT RELIGNS OF THE WORLD. BUDDHISM HAS TRANSFORMED THE LIV OF LNS OF PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD, PECIALLY SOUTH EAST ASIA, CENTRAL ASIA, CHA, TIBET, KOREA AND JAPAN. IT IS THE FOURTH MOST FOLLOWED RELIGNS THE WORLD AND HAS AROUND 495 LN BELIEVERS, NSTUTG 7- 8% OF THE WORLD’S POPULATN AS OF 2010. VIEW ALL TRIPS HISTORY KNOWN AS UVILVA, AFTER BUDDHA’S ENLIGHTENMENT THE SE HAS BEEN KNOWN BY VAR NAM BASED ON THIS HISTORIC EVENT. WH TWO CENTURI OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT, THE NAME UVELA WAS REPLACED BY NEW ON LIKE SAMBODHI (MEANG ‘COMPLETE ENLIGHTENMENT’), BODHIMANDA (‘AWAKENG POSN’), VAJRASANA (MEANG ‘DIAMOND THRONE’) AND MAHABODHI (MEANG ‘GREAT ENLIGHTENMENT’). THE CY WAS NAMED SAMBODHI WHEN THE EMPEROR ASOKA MA A PILGRIMAGE TO THE SE THE YEAR 260 BC, THE 10TH YEAR OF HIS REIGN. HE CID TO BUILD A TEMPLE STCTURE TO MEMORATE BUDDHA’S ENLIGHTENMENT. THE FIRST TEMPLE STCTURE WAS AN OPEN PAVILN SUPPORTED ON PILLARS AND THE MIDDLE WAS THE VAJRASANA THRONE, THE ORIGAL SPOT UPON WHICH THE BUDDHA IS BELIEVED TO HAVE SAT AND MEDATED. OVER THE YEARS, THE TEMPLE WAS RENOVATED MANY TIM AND THE CURRENT STCTURE DAT TO THE GUPTA PERD THE 6TH CENTURY AD. HIN TSANG, THE CHE TRAVELER, IS SAID TO HAVE VISED THE CY THE 7TH CENTURY AND RERD THE EXISTENCE OF THE TEMPLE. TAKE A SP TO FD YOUR PERFECT SMALL-GROUP TRIP STATN PASSPORTS READY? YOUR NEXT STATN IS... VIEW TRIP SP MEXI EGYPT SOUTH AI SPA INDIA CROATIA ECUADOR TURKEY ICELAND GREECE JAPAN BALI MOROC THAILAND SAMBODHI DWAAR, BODHGAYA | © SANGA SHA HOWEVER, BY THE 13TH CENTURY, BUDDHISM BEGAN TO CLE, TERT THE CY WANED, AND THE TEMPLE WAS LOST THE S. IN THE LATE 19TH-CENTURY, BODH GAYA WAS REDISVERED DUE TO LARGE SLE EXVATNS AND RENSTCTNS RRIED OUT BY ALEXANR CUNNGHAM, A RETIRED BRISH ARMY ENGEER WH AN TERT ARCHAEOLOGY AND ANTIQUY. THIS TIME, THE CY WAS NAMED BUDDHA GAYA OR BODH GAYA. EVEN THOUGH IS MALY RENOWNED FOR THE MAHABODHI TEMPLE AND COMPLEX, BODHGAYA IS A SMALL TOURIST TOWN TEEMG WH MONASTERI AND TEMPL BUILT BY NEARLY EVERY BUDDHIST UNTRY TO MARK THEIR PRENCE. MAHABODHI TEMPLE COMPLEX A UNESCO WORLD HERAGE SE, THE MAHABODHI TEMPLE COMPLEX, NSISTS OF THE TEMPLE, BODHI TREE (WHERE BUDDHA ATTAED ENLIGHTENMENT) AND SIX OTHER SACRED SPOTS. AS CUNNIGHAM WROTE ABOUT HIS EXVATNS: ‘BUT THE MOST IMPORTANT DISVERY WAS THE FACT THAT THE PRENT TEMPLE IS BUILT EXACTLY OVER THE REMAS OF ASOKA’S TEMPLE, SO THAT THE ORIGAL VAJRASANA THRONE STILL RETAS S OLD POSN OF THE BUDDHA’S SEAT, AND THE REPUTED CENTRE OF THE UNIVERSE’. THE TEMPLE COMPLEX, SURROUND BY A 11 FOOT HIGH BOUNDARY WALL, IS FIVE METERS BELOW THE LAND AND APPROACHED BY A FLIGHT OF STEPS LEADG DOWN. FURTHER ALONG, A CENTRAL PATH LEADS UP TO THE TEMPLE. MANY BELIEVE THIS WILL BE THE LAST SE TO GO DOWN BEFORE THE STCTN OF THE UNIVERSE AND THE FIRST ONE TO REAPPEAR ON A NEW BEGNG. CARIBBEAN COLOMBIA DISVER COLOMBIA’S CARIBBEAN AST, OM CARTAGENA TO PALOMO VIA JUNGL, RIVERS AND ISLANDS. 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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.

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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). 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.

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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.

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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.

The historil and archaeologil rerd at this sacred Buddhist center stretch back to at least the 3rd century 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. Three of the most important monuments will be discsed this say:The Bodhi treeThe Vajrasana, or “Diamond Throne”The Mahabodhi TempleThe Buddha’s Great AwakengSiddhartha Gtama arrived at Bodh Gaya middle age, havg renounced his life as a prce on seeg the “four sights” of agg, sickns, ath, and. 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 Bodhi TreeAs 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 pictns of Bodh Gaya art datg om the 2nd century B. The throne and the tree has remaed an important sign for the Buddha and the moment of enlightenment throughout the history of Buddhist art, as n be seen the early relief of the Bodhi tree wh a shre (at the top of this page) and the mon image of the Buddha llg on the earth to Mahabodhi TempleThe acunts of Che pilgrims who vised Bodh Gaya om at least the 5th century C. The temple picted this plaque also ho an image of the 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 is around this time too that scriptns beg to refer to the Mahabodhi Temple as the “vajrasana-gandhakuti, ” lerally the “perfume chamber (i.

The surface of the temple is studd wh recedg levels of Buddha imag set to nich alternatg wh circular “w’s eye wdows, ” not unlike the acunts of Che pilgrims and early pictns of this buildg late 19th-century rtoratn of the Mahabodhi Temple Complex at Bodh Gaya ma signifint alteratns to the se, however. This perd of rtoratn and partial exvatn of the plex also brought to light the many small “votive” (pertag to a wish) shr and imag which had steadily built up around the temple over Mahabodhis: replitn of Bodh GayaAn important feature of Bodh Gaya and the Mahabodhi Temple Complex is s replitn across Asia.

What might be lled “repli” Mahabodhi templ were built across Asia om the 13th century onwards: the Mahabodhi Phaya Myanmar, Wat Chet Yot Thailand, Wuta Si Cha, and the Mahabuddha Temple Nepal are important of the stctur imate the form of the Mahabodhi Temple at Bodh Gaya, though they vary style, buildg technology, and materials. How and why the many Mahabodhi Temple were built, however, remas unclear; likely each of the buildgs was built for a specific purpose each ntext but all of them n be unrstood to, a sense, transfer the Buddhist “holy land” 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.