Mahabodhi Temple Complex at Bodh Gaya - UNESCO World Herage Centre

Contents:

• MAHABODHI TEMPLE COMPLEX AT BODH GAYA
• BODH GAYA: THE SE OF THE BUDDHA’S ENLIGHTENMENT
• BODH GAYA
• BODHI TREE, BODH GAYA
• BODHI TREE (BODH GAYA) - ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE YOU GO (WH PHOTOS) - TRIPADVISOR
• BODHI TREE (BODH GAYA) - ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE YOU GO
• TOURIST PLACE BODH GAYA
• MAHABODI TEMPLE AT BODH GAYA, INDIA
• MAHABODHI MAHAVIHAR BODH GAYA: TEMPLE OF ENLIGHTENMENT

MAHABODHI TEMPLE COMPLEX AT BODH GAYA

Sacred tree, Bodh Gaya, India. Bodhi tree, also lled Bo tree, acrdg to Buddhist tradn, the specific sacred fig (Fic religsa) unr which the Buddha sat when he attaed Enlightenment (Bodhi) at Bodh Gaya Bihar, India. 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.

Crern (vi): The Mahabodhi Temple Complex Bodh Gaya has direct associatn wh the life of the Lord Buddha, beg the place where He attaed the supreme and perfect sight. AuthenticyThe belief that Buddha had attaed Enlightenment this particular place has been nfirmed by tradn and is now lled Bodh Gaya, this is of supreme value to the world.

BODH GAYA: THE SE OF THE BUDDHA’S ENLIGHTENMENT

Buddhist texts of both Theravadhan and Mahayanan tradns have clear reference of this event of Buddha's enlightenment at Bodh Gaya.

BODH GAYA

Buddhists om all over the world today venerate Bodh Gaya as the holit place of Buddhist pilgrimage the world. On the basis of the Bodh Gaya Temple Act of 1949, the State Government is rponsible for the management and protectn of the property through Bodhgaya Temple Management Commtee (BTMC) and Advisory Board. All velopmental activi wh the premis of this World Herage property and at Bodhgaya are guid by the l and regulatns of the Se Management Plan amed by the Government of Bihar.

Proposals will need to be preced by Herage Impact Asssments and a particular challenge will be to ntuoly monor the impact that potential velopments of the area as a whole, cludg the town, may have on the relig and spirual signifince of the Bodhgaya Temple Management Commtee also seeks to unrtake a staable approach to the matenance of the property for example utilizatn of solar energy, pollutn ee environment, etc. The Bodhi Tree Bodh Gaya India is said to be the tree unr which the Gtama Buddha sat when he attaed enlightenment.

BODHI TREE, BODH GAYA

Map showg the lotn of Bodh Gaya.

This extraordary place—Bodh Gaya—is unrstood to be the se of the enlightenment, or “great awakeng” (Sanskr, mahabodhi), of Siddhartha Gtama, the Buddha. More than 2, 500 years later, Bodh Gaya is a sprawlg pilgrimage town nse wh ancient, medieval, and morn shr, monasteri, templ, and hotels. 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.

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

Buddhist nventn ont of the Bodhi tree at Bodh Gaya, 2013 (photo: Triratna_Photos, CC BY-NC 2.

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. The Bodhi Tree today at Bodh Gaya.

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. Timele of key events at Bodh Gaya (drawn by the thor).

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

From pictns of Bodh Gaya art datg om the 2nd century B. [2] The stone railgs enclosg a scennt of this tree at Bodh Gaya today likely date to the 1st century B.

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).

TOURIST PLACE BODH GAYA

The empty throne unr the tree often acted as a sign for both the absent prence of the Buddha and for Bodh Gaya as a sacred se. Mahabodhi Temple today, Bodh Gaya, Bihar, India (photo: manbartlett, CC BY 2. The acunts of Che pilgrims who vised Bodh Gaya om at least the 5th century C.

Onwards give historians an ia of the next phase of nstctn at Bodh Gaya.

MAHABODI TEMPLE AT BODH GAYA, INDIA

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.

Mahabodhi Temple, Bodh Gaya, Bihar, India (photo: Santosh Kumar, CC BY-SA 2. 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). The late 19th-century rtoratn of the Mahabodhi Temple Complex at Bodh Gaya ma signifint alteratns to the se, however.

MAHABODHI MAHAVIHAR BODH GAYA: TEMPLE OF ENLIGHTENMENT

Many Mahabodhis: replitn of Bodh Gaya. An important feature of Bodh Gaya and the Mahabodhi Temple Complex is s replitn across Asia.

Each of the stctur imate the form of the Mahabodhi Temple at Bodh Gaya, though they vary style, buildg technology, and materials. 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.

Bodh Gaya Today. 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. Today at least forty different Buddhist anizatns are reprented Bodh Gaya—a town wh a mostly Hdu and Mlim populatn.