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| | Tourism of India - Buddha - Bodhgaya |
 | | As the place of the Buddha's Enlightenment, Bodh Gaya is the spiritual home of Buddhists. | | | Bodh Gaya (once Uruvela village) is the place where, 2500 years ago, in the 6th century BC, a young ascetic, Siddhartha, attained enlightenment to become the Buddha, and found Buddhism, one of the world's oldest religions. | | | Bodh Gaya is quite an international town as monasteries, guest houses, meditation centres and Buddhist temples of different countries abound. |
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http://www.tourismofindia.com/hibuddh/buddh_bodhgaya.htm
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| | Bodh Gaya India, Each year on full-moon night in May, pilgrims from India, Nepal, Burma, Thailand, China, Japan, & ... |
| | Bodh Gaya's fame reached far-flung corners of the world, which brought donors and visitors to see the original site where the Buddha attained his spiritual awakening, or Nirvana. | | | A visit to Bodh Gaya is to commune with that sparkling illumination, that perceptive light of wisdom which removes unhappiness. | | | There is no other place more venerated by Buddhist than Bodh Gaya, where Gautam Siddhartha attained enlightenment and came to be called the Buddha, the Awakened one. |
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http://www.4to40.com/discoverindia/places/index.asp?article=discoverindia_places_bodhgaya
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| | The Buddhist Channel News - Asia Karmapa to attend Buddhist prayer in Bodh Gaya |
| | Bodh Gaya, about 110 km from here, is where the Buddha attained enlightenment 2,500 years ago. | | | Karmapa to attend Buddhist prayer in Bodh Gaya | | | A spokesperson of Tibetan Buddhists said here that the 17th Karmapa, Ugyen Trinley Dorje will begin the Kagyu Monlam Chenmo Puja of Tibetan Buddhists from Saturday at the Mahabodhi Mahavihara, the holiest temple of Buddhists in Bodh Gaya. |
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http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=1,2166,0,0,1,0
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| | History of Bodh Gaya, India, Place of Buddhas Enlightenment |
| | Given the Sri Lankan Buddhists' deep regard for Bodh Gaya it is not surprising that it was yet again a Sri Lankan, Anagarika Dharmapala, who began the struggle to restore the Temple in 1893 and who build the first modern pilgrims' rest at Bodh Gaya. | | | There is no doubt that Bodh Gaya endured at least two attacks by Muslims but the monks survived these and continued with their meditation and study. | | | The first evidence of a Sri Lankan coming to Bodh Gaya is an inscription by a monk named Bodhiraksita written in the 1st century BCE. |
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http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/history/bodh-gaya.htm
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| | 3. The Bodh Gaya temple controversy |
| | In Bodh Gaya, the Chinese pilgrim Xuan Zang stayed in the Mahabodhi Sangharama, a “splendid monastery” with “1000 monks”, which had been built, at the Sri Lankan king Meghavarmana’s request, under the auspices of Samudragupta, the Gupta Emperor. | | | The popular support base and the training grounds for Buddhist monks were being destroyed in all of North India, and Bodh Gaya was dying as a Buddhist centre along with all those other establishments that were being physically eliminated by the Turks. | | | More than that, a Buddhist member of the Bodh Gaya temple management committee has admitted that “the laudable work of the construction of the Mahabodhi temple” was “undertaken by a Brahmana minister of Shaivite persuasion”. |
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http://koenraadelst.voiceofdharma.com/books/acat/ch3.htm
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| | GoRustic.com - Bodh Gaya, Place of Buddha's Enlightenment |
| | Bodh Gaya is interesting because here we have the central place of a global religion located smack dab in the heart of the poorest, most illiterate state in India, Bihar. | | | The monastery is called Wat Po Buddha Gaya (which means simply, forest temple at Bodh Gaya) in Thai where approximately 10 monks, 2 nuns, and 4 Thai lady pilgrims are staying currently. | | | We arrive in Bodh Gaya in the midday heat and I begin my search for accomodation, landing first on a not bad place adjoining the Tibetan monastary where I leave my bag for further looking around. |
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http://www.gorustic.com/bodh_gaya.htm
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| | Buddhist Sites in India |
| | Bodh Gaya today is a busy centre of pilgrimage with monasteries and meditation centres run by Tibetan, Burmese, Thai and Vietnamese communities. | | | Like Bodh Gaya, Sarnath has a thriving international Buddhist community. | | | In 1891 the Sri Lankan Anagarika Dharmapala founded the Mahabodhi Society, which set out to reclaim Bodh Gaya for Buddhism; this was achieved in 1949. |
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http://www.twilightbridge.com/hobbies/festivals/buddha/india.htm
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| | BodhGaya :: Tourism Department (Govt.of Bihar) |
| | Gaya is an important Centre of 'Hindu Pilgrimage' where people go to offer oblations for the salvation of their dead forefathers. | | | from Bodhgaya, Gaya is a very sacred pilgrim centre for Hindus. | | | The sacred tank where it is believed that Buddha had spent one week. |
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http://bihar.nic.in/Depts/Tourism/BodhGaya.htm
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| | Rediff On The NeT Travel: A travel feature on Gaya in Bihar, India. |
| | Interestingly, Bodh Gaya attracts Hindu pilgrims who consider Buddha one of their own gods, an incarnation of Vishnu. | | | Today Bodh Gaya, a few kilometres away from old Gaya, is one of the world's most important Buddhist pilgrimage centres. | | | Tibetan monastery, Bhutanese monastery, Thai monastery, Burmese monastery, Thai monastery, Nepali monastery, Japanese Monastery, Bodh Gaya. |
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http://www.rediff.com/travel/1998/sep/08snap8.htm
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| | Bodh Gaya, India |
| | Bodh Gaya is the place where the Buddha attained his full awakening 2500 years ago. | | | These days it is a place of pilgrimage for Buddhist pilgrims from around the world. | | | The last six pictures of this set come from the Pragya Vihara School, an inter-religious school started by Western pilgrims to Bodh Gaya. |
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http://www.thomasriddle.net/gaya
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| | VHP regains lost ground in Bodh Gaya- The Times of India |
| | GAYA: After more than 12 years, the VHP has regained its lost ground in Bodh Gaya, the seat of Buddha's enlightenment. | | | For the last several years, conversions have regularly been taking place in Bodh Gaya and a significant number of Dalits from Bihar as well as other parts of the country, particularly Maharashtra, have embraced Buddhism at baptisation ceremonies conducted at the seat of Buddha's enlightenment. | | | Now that Bhupendra Kumar Modi has been elected as the president of the Mahabodhi Society, one of the most influential Buddhist organisations and the society's constitution has been amended, freeing it from the Sri Lankan yoke, the VHP finds itself in a vantage position in Bodh Gaya. |
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/930814.cms
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| | Buddhist Monks at Bodhi Tree |
| | The environs of Bodh Gaya have attracted sages, yogis, and meditators since the time of Buddha. | | | Preeminent among all these pilgrimage sites, both old and new, is Bodh Gaya, the place where the Buddha attained enlightenment. | | | Finally recognizing that such practices had served him well but were no longer appropriate, Siddhartha journeyed toward the ancient sacred forests of Uruvela (modern Gaya in Bihar, in north India) with the intention of finally and completely realizing the infinite. |
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http://www.sacredsites.com/asia/india/buddhist.html
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| | ebuddhaindia.com -Gaya -place of Buddha's famous Fire Sermon |
| | Gaya is one of the seven sacred cities of Hinduism and most people only pass through it on their way to Bodh Gaya. | | | Another interesting place in Gaya is Tankitamancha, now a large tank called Sujikund, where the Buddha had his well known encounter and dialogue with the malevolent spirit Suchiloma; (see Sutta Nipata, discourse No 5). | | | However the Buddha stayed in Gaya for some time and preached his third discourse here. |
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http://www.ebudhaindia.com/places/gaya.htm
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| | Sacred Places: Bodh Gaya, India |
| | For Buddhist, this spot is the centre of the universe. | | | Trees and the Sacred) here and received the enlightenment that would inspire one of the world's great religions. | | | After six fruitless years of seeking the ultimate meaning of life, Siddhartha Gautama sat cross-legged under the pipal tree and entered a deep meditation. |
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http://witcombe.sbc.edu/sacredplaces/bodhgaya.html
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| | Bodh Gaya is all prepared to welcome His Holiness the Dalai Lama - www.phayul.com |
| | Bodh Gaya is all prepared to welcome His Holiness the Dalai Lama - www.phayul.com | | | Thousands of Buddhist devotees from the Indian Himalayas from Arunachal Pradesh in the northeast to Ladakh region in the northwest have reached here, and many more are expected to join their fellow Buddhists from all over the world to attend the Kalachakra Initiation Ceremony conducted by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. | | | Bodh Gaya is all prepared to welcome His Holiness the Dalai Lama |
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http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?id=3555&t=1&c=1
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| | Bodh Gaya |
| | There are several monasteries in Bodh Gaya, among which are, Mohnata's Monastery, and the Tibetan Mahayana Monastery. | | | The Bodhi tree here is believed to be the descendant of the original tree under which Lord Buddha attained enkightenment. | | | The Buddha Jayanti Festival is celebrated in May. Buddhists from the world over come here. |
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http://www.goindiago.com/travel/pilgrimage/bodhgaya.htm
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| | Bodhgaya News |
| | About 7,000 Buddhist monks, including 17 incarnate lamas, have congregated in Bihar's Bodh Gaya town for the Kagyu Monlam Chenmo prayer that the 17th Karmapa, Ugyen Trinley Dorji, was scheduled to lead. | | | ABDUL QADIR (The Times of India) TUESDAY, DECEMBER 03, 2002 GAYA: With Buddha Mahotsava preparations picking up, the question uppermost in the minds of the Bodh Gaya watchers is whether the 5th Mahotsava would be any different from the previous ones. | | | Hundreds of Buddhist monks from across the world have gathered at their religion's birthplace in eastern India for weeklong prayers for world peace that began Tuesday. |
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http://www.bodhgayanews.net/200212.htm
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| | International Campaign for Tibet: Tibet News: Over 200,000 Expected To Attend Dalai Lama's Teachings in Bodh Gaya |
| | Over 200,000 Buddhists are expected to attend the Dalai Lama's Kalachakra Teachings in Bodh Gaya, India, beginning from January 12, 2003, Indian and Tibetan officials say. | | | As of January 3, 2003, around 70,000 Buddhists, including Tibetans, Nepalese, Bhutanese, Sikkimese, and Ladakhis, had reached Bodh Gaya. | | | The Tibetan Department of Religion and Culture is working in close coordination with officials of Bihar state as well as Gaya district in making logistical arrangements for the teachings. |
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http://www.savetibet.org/news/newsitem.php?id=364
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| | PatnaDaily.Com - Four Persons Detained in Bodh Gaya |
| | The Gaya police, on getting information from the Tibetan Security Agency and the Dalai Lama's security officials, who are in Bodh Gaya in connection with the ongoing Kalachakra prayers, the Gaya administration detained four Buddhists on late Friday night for interrogation. | | | Three of the detainees are Nepalese and the fourth suspect is a Tibetan. | | | Sources said that the police in Gaya, on the basis of the Intelligence reports raided a house in Pachhatti area of Bodh Gaya and took the four in their custody. |
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http://www.patnadaily.com/news2003/011803/four_arrested_in_gaya.html
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| | BodhgayaNews |
| | NEW DELHI, APRIL 4: The NCM has asked the the Government to hand over the Mahabodhi temple at Gaya to Buddhists. | | | IANS, July 31, 2004 Patna, India -(Buddhist News Network) - A Bihar court has issued a non-bailable warrant for the arrest of a top official of the Mahabodhi temple, a world heritage site and one of the holiest Buddhist shrines, in Bodh Gaya, about 100 km south of here. | | | The Guardian reports that plans for the giant Buddha statue which was originally going to be built in Bodhgaya are now progressing and the project is to be built in Kushinagar in UP... |
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http://www.bodhgayanews.net
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| | India Bodh Gaya |
| | The spot where Buddha was enlightened and a descendant of the bodhi tree. | | | The giant statue of Buddha in Bodh Gaya | | | Butanese tent restaurants set-up to feed the Tibetans who come to Bodh Gaya for the winter |
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http://www.jwlb.com/india/bodgaya.shtml
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| | The Bodh Gaya Temple Controversy: An Essay |
| | For the latter-day perverts who identify the Gupta dynasty with a supposed "Brahmanical reaction against Buddhism," Bodh Gaya has a large number of dated sculptures from the Gupta period, which in fact was one of the most fruitful periods in Buddhist art. | | | The Bodh Gaya Temple Controversy: An Essay ------------------------------------------ The Ambedkarite neo-Buddhists have been taken for a ride by the Macaulites, Marxists and the Jihadists as well as the apologists of the Islamic rapine alike. | | | The later Eulogium in the Puranas enjoins in the same manner that every Hindu pilgrim to the Gaya region desiring to release the departed spirits of his ancestors must visit also Bodh Gaya to pay his respectful homage to the Buddha image Dharmeshvara as well as the Bo-tree Ashvatta......". |
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| | Mahabodhi Temple Complex at Bodh Gaya - World Heritage Site - Pictures, info and travel reports |
| | The journey till Gaya was by train,and we had to take a local tourist bus to get to Bodhgaya.We arrived two days prior to the Vaisakh Purnima (the birthday,Enlightenment day,and the Mahaparinirvana)day of the Buddha. | | | » Bodh Gaya also is one of the Sacred Sites. | | | Is it possible to see old stupas, little and big Buddha statues, tibetan devots, monks, tourists, prayers, poor people, children and dogs (!)living in peace inside complex. |
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http://www.worldheritagesite.org/sites/mahabodhi.html
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| | indiayogi.com - Ashrams - Mahamaya,Devadaha,Siddhartha,Mahamaya,Suddhodhana,Bhikshu,Nirvana,Bodh Gaya,Nairanjana, ... |
| | It isn’t surprising that one of the most revered and ancient cities in the world, was where Buddha proceeded on from Bodh Gaya. | | | Initially, they avoided and ignored him, but once they spoke to him and had discussions, they realized that what the Buddha was saying was true. | | | It is held sacred for being the home of Lord Shiva and Parvati as also the presence of the mighty river, Ganges that in Varanasi |
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http://www.indiayogi.com/content/pilgrimages/footsteeps1.asp
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| | Search Results for Gaya - Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Buddhism entered India's politico-religious tumult during 1992-93 as the Buddha Gaya Mahabodhi Vihar All-India Action Committee agitated for exclusive control of the site of Buddha's Enlightenment. | | | according to Buddhist tradition, the pipal (Ficus religiosa) under which the Buddha sat when he attained Enlightenment (Bodhi) at Bodh Gaya (near Gaya, west-central Bihar state, India). | | | Provides notes on various sacred sites from around the world such as Lourdes, Lascaux, Mecca, St. Peter's Basilica, Bodh Gaya, Abu Simbel, Giza Plateau, Delphi, Athenian Acropolis, Holy Sepulchre, Stonehenge, Newgrange, Dome of the Rock, Chartres Cathedral, Shrine At Ise, Kata Tjuta, and Mosque of Córdoba. |
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http://www.britannica.com/search?query=Gaya&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT
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| | The Hindu : Bodh Gaya all set for a makeover |
| | Singh has also asked the Centre for induction of Kesaria, Lauria Nadan Gadh and Vikranshila into the present Buddhist circuit for their significance in relation to Buddhism. | | | The Mahabodhi Temple Complex, where Prince Siddartha attained enlightenment in sixth century BC and became the Buddha, was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO last year and the formal dedication ceremony took place here recently. | | | On the recommendations of the Chandra Committee's report, which envisages the need for connecting all Buddhist sites with good roads, Singh suggests that the Centre initiate a special ``Buddhist Circuit Road Programme'' on the lines of the Prime Minister's Golden Quadrilateral Project. |
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http://www.hindu.com/2004/03/03/stories/2004030307020300.htm
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| | Myanmar's ruler prays at Bodh Gaya |
| | Sources in the Gaya district administration said that the general expressed his desire to do something for the temple town. | | | This was his first visit to the temple, where Buddha attained enlightenment 2,500 years ago under a tree. | | | We wish General Shwe and his delegation of officials a fine stay in our country blessed... |
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http://us.rediff.com/news/2004/oct/28gaya.htm
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| | PatnaDaily.Com - Chinese Man Arrested in Bodh Gaya |
| | The security official in Bodh Gaya, on Tuesday, arrested a 27-year old Chinese man after he entered into a scuffle with a Tibetan priest near the Kalachakra Maidan. | | | Upon interrogation, it was found that the man came from Sigatse near Lhasa in Tibet but had no valid papers to inter India. | | | PatnaDaily.Com - Chinese Man Arrested in Bodh Gaya |
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http://www.patnadaily.com/news2003/011503/chinese_man_arrested.html
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| | Antioch College Buddhist Studies In India |
| | For two and a half millennia, Bodh Gaya has been a magnet for pilgrims from all Buddhist cultures, because it was here under the Bodhi tree that the prince-ascetic Gotama became the fully enlightened Buddha. | | | Today still, people from the Theravada countries of Southeast Asia, the Mahayana countries of the Far East, and the Vajrayana countries of the Himalayan north come to venerate this sacred site, each in a fashion unique to his or her own tradition. | | | Emphasis is placed on a comparative approach to both theory and practice, so that participants may reach their own understanding of that essence which is common to all the varieties of Buddhism, while learning to appreciate the many cultural and historical environments in which is has flourished. |
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http://jsis.artsci.washington.edu/programs/soasia/Antioch.htm
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| | Bodh Gaya Page |
| | enlightenment, Bodh Gaya is one of the most sacred, | | | A final word of warning to would-be pilgrims to Bodh Gaya. | | | There is also a small airport in Bodh Gaya itself. |
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http://www.otterbein.edu/dept/RELG/BodhGayaPage.htm
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| | Bodh Gaya on 43 Places |
| | Bodh Gaya is a great place for pilgrims, and many Buddhist communities has temples or monasteries there. | | | Still one has to travel through the quite sinister state of Bihar being one of the less safe destinations. |
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http://www.43places.com/places/view/197341
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| | Poor facilities at Bodh Gaya irk devotees |
| | A large number of Buddhists from abroad had arrived in Bodh Gaya to attend | | | embraced Buddhism way back in 1971, Dixey is on his third visit to Bodh | | | construct a ring road around Bodh Gaya, but god knows when it will be made," |
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| | Bodh Gaya |
| | Bodh Gaya, is the greatest pilgrim centre for Buddhists of the world. | | | Number of Monasteries constructed by Burmese, Tibetan, Chinese, Japanese, Thai and Bhutanese in their native architectural styles provide great attraction to tourists. | | | The tree that stands today, is said to have grown from the original Bodhi Tree. |
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http://www.indiainvitation.com/states/Bodh_Bihar.html
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| | bodh gaya, vaishali, rajgir, nalanda, sonepur travel & tourism |
| | Patna, earlier known as Patliputra, the capital of Magadh Kingdom and the birth place of the tenth Sikh Guru, Govind Singh is another important city. | | | bodh gaya, vaishali, rajgir, nalanda, sonepur travel and tourism |
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| | World Heritage site status for Bodh Gaya Temple |
| | GAYA -- Showing interest in the government of India's proposal to include the world famous Mahabodhi Temple, the seat of Buddha's enlightenment, in the prestigious list of world heritage sites, the UNESCO has sought some clarifications from the Union government. | | | While appreciating the proposal in view of the importance of Bodh Gaya as a spiritual centre, the UNESCO official decided to seek some clarifications before granting world heritage site status to the Mahabodhi Temple. | | | On the point of ownership and management of the temple, the UNESCO would be informed that the temple ownership vests in the government of Bihar and its management is conducted by a committee of nine members nominated by the state government with a Hindu DM as its ex-officio chairman. |
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http://www.buddhismtoday.com/english/holyplaces/010-BodhGayaTemple.htm
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