A Buddhist Train Destination Bodhgaya

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Date: 2017-10-01

Buddhagaya or Bodhgaya as is largely known is an ancient and hallowed spot on earth. Being the seat of the Enlightenment of the Buddha, it is the holiest of the holies for the Buddhists of the world. Situated on the banks of the river Niranjana, Buddhagaya was originally a part of the Uruvella Village ( presently Trail.). It is located in Bihar a state in India, which again is an ancient and historical place not only due to Buddhagaya but because Bihar is equally important to the Jains, Hindus, and Sikhs. Buddhagaya today is a place of attraction the entire Buddhist world and groups of pilgrims and visitors come to visit it all the year-round.

According to Buddhist traditions, five hundred B.C. aristocrat mystic, wandering as a monk, reached the sylvan banks of Falgu watercourse, close to the town of Gaya. There he Saturday in meditation underneath a bodhi tree.

Mahabodhi Temple

The temple, situated almost one hundred ten kilometers from Patna, the Mahabodhi Temple with the Vajrasana or " diamond throne" and therefore the holy Bodhi tree. This tree was originally a sapling of the Sri Maha Bodhi tree in Sri Lanka, itself grew from what is claimed to be a sapling of the original Bodhi tree. In roughly 250 BCE, regarding two hundred years once Gautama Siddhartha earned Enlightenment, Buddhist Emperor Asoka visited Bodh Gaya to determine a cloister and shrine on the holy web site, which have today disappeared. Representations of this early temple area unit found at Sanchi, on the toraṇas of Stūpa I, and a relief carving from the stupa railing at Bhārhut, from the early Shunga period, this pyramidic temple was designed at the time of the Gupta Empire.

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