Bodh Gaya, Gaya, Bihar, India

Bodh Gaya, Gaya, Bihar, India

Bodh Gaya is a religious site and place of pilgrimage associated with the Mahabodhi Temple Complex . It is famous as it is the place where Gautama Buddha is said to have obtained Enlightenment (Pali: bodhi) under what became known as the Bodhi Tree.

For Buddhists, Bodh Gaya is the most important of the main four pilgrimage sites related to the life of Gautama Buddha, the other three being Kushinagar, Lumbini, and Sarnath. In 2002, Mahabodhi Temple, located in Bodh Gaya, became a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Detail link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodh_Gaya

Location:

Place                   : Bodh Gaya

nearest city        :Gaya

District               : Gaya

State                   : Bihar  

Country             : India

Google map link:

 https://www.google.co.in/maps/place/Bodhgaya,+Bihar/@24.6991566,84.9676864,14z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x39f32c5fbc12ed3d:0x9bbc5dccc57d96e!8m2!3d24.6961343!4d84.9869547 

How to Reach

Nearest airport              :  Gaya 7 Kms and Patna 135 kms.

Nearest railway station : Gaya (17km), Patna 130 Kms

Road                              : Bodhgaya road distance from Gaya (17km), Nalanda (101 km), 

                                        Rajgir (78 km), Patna (135km), Varanasi (252 km), Calcutta (495km) 

Places to visit nearby 

Sl. No.	Place	Sl. No.	Place
1	Mahabodhi Temple	2	Great Buddha Statue
3	Thai Monastery	4	Royal Bhutan Monastery
5	Indosan Nippon Japanese Temple	6	Cankamana
7	Root Institute	8	Muchalinda Lake
9	Chinese Temple	10	Sujatha Temple
11	Dungeswari Hills	12	Archaeological Society of India Museum
13	Burmese Vihara Monastary	14	Metta Buddharam Temple
15	Metta Buddharam Temple	16	Bodhgaya Multimedia Museum

NALANDA, BIHAR, INDIA

NALANDA, BIHAR, INDIA

                                                    ( Nalanda University Excavated Site)

Location/ Map :
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District	Nalanda
State	Bihar
Country	India

How to reach: 

The site is located about 95 kilometres  southeast of capital Patna & 75 kilometres from city Gaya.

Nearest Railway Station	Bakhtiyarpur, Gaya, Patna.
Nearest Airport	Patna, Gaya.
Nearest town	Bihar Sharif, Rajgir.

Nalanda  was  a large Buddhist monastery in the ancient kingdom of Magadha ( Bihar) in India. Was a centre of learning from the seventh century BCE to c. 1200 CE.

The highly formalized methods of Vedic learning helped inspire the establishment of large teaching institutions such as Taxila, Nalanda, and Vikramashila which are often characterised as India's early universities. Nalanda flourished under the patronage of the Gupta Empire in the 5th and 6th centuries and later under Harsha, the emperor of Kannauj. The liberal cultural traditions inherited from the Gupta age resulted in a period of growth and prosperity until the ninth century. The subsequent centuries were a time of gradual decline, a period during which the tantric developments of Buddhism became most pronounced in eastern India under the Pala Empire.

It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. 

For more details follow the link below:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nalanda 

Important places to visit around:

Sl. No.	Places	Sl. No.	Places
01	Nalanda Archaeological Museum	02	Xuan Zang ( Hsuen Tsang ) Memorial
03	Nalanda University	04	Wat Thai Nalanda Temple
05	Nalanda University Excavated Site	06	Kundalpur Jain Temple
07	Rajgir	08	Jal mandir, Pawapuri