"India is the birthplace of Lord Buddha. It was here in Bihar, in Bodh Gaya, that he meditated under the Bodhi tree and attained enlightenment. He then spread this wisdom to the world. People from ...

The Bodh Gaya is one of the four sacred sites of Buddhism; the other three being Buddha’s birthplace Lumbini, Sarnath where he gave his first sermon and Kusinagar where he attained parinirvana.

The Bodh Gaya Math, the Hindu monastery that performs the rituals inside the complex, insists that it has played a central role in the upkeep of the shrine for centuries and that it has the law on its ...

The Buddha and Bodh Gaya figured prominently in independent ... include the construction of the Buddha’s images (such as the giant statue provided by the Daijokyo sect of Nagoya, Japan, which ...

The projects would require more than 22 acres of land for which DM Thiyagarajan SM has instructed circle officers of town and Bodh Gaya blocks to get encroachments removed from the identified plots.

South and Southeast Asia Countries in South and Southeast Asia celebrate Buddha’s Birthday on the full moon of the second lunar month. The Mahabodhi Temple in Bodh Gaya is decorated on this day ...

Buddhist groups have asked the Central and Bihar governments to change existing laws and hand over the management of Bodh Gaya temple to Buddhists before Buddha Jayanti on May 12. The temple in ...

The temple was built by Emperor Ashoka, who visited Bodh Gaya in 260 BCE after embracing Buddhism, roughly 200 years after the Buddha’s enlightenment. It remained under Buddhist management for ...

The Bodh Gaya Math, the Hindu monastery that performs the rituals inside the complex, insists that it has played a central role in the upkeep of the shrine for centuries and that it has the law on its ...