Chinese Temple, Bodh Gaya
Monastery · Gautama Buddha; a Bodhisattva image · Bodh Gaya, Gaya, Bihar
Chinese and East Asian pilgrims come here, and the 200-year-old image is the draw for others
Built in 1945 by Chinese Buddhist monks and renovated in 1997, about a five-minute walk west of the Mahabodhi complex. Pagoda-style roof with red and gold accents. Inside are three golden Buddha statues and a large Bodhisattva image, plus a 200-year-old Buddha statue brought from China. Travelogues by Chinese pilgrim-scholars are displayed.
Plan your visit
- Area
- Bodh Gaya
- Status
- Coming Soon
Experiences here
- Sit with a monastery: Eighteen countries keep a monastery here, and several teach anybody who walks in
Tirtham can arrange here
Guide, car and stay around Bodh Gaya
Also around Bodh Gaya
- Litti chokha: The dish people mean when they say Bihari food.
- Sattu sharbat in summer: What Bihar drinks against the heat: roasted gram, water, lemon and salt, sold from carts on every corner.
- Tilkut on Ramna Road: Gaya's winter sweet, pounded from sesame and jaggery by hand for about 150 years, and eaten at Makar Sankranti.
- Anarsa of Gaya: The rice-and-sesame sweet Bihar Tourism places at Gaya.
- Magahi paan: The betel leaf of old Magadh, soft enough to melt in the mouth, grown under thatch in Nawada, Gaya, Aurangabad and Nalanda.
- The winter Tibetan market: Every winter, when the monasteries fill, Tibetan families set up a market beside the Mahabodhi temple.
Nearby places
- Mahabodhi Temple, Bodh Gaya: Where the Buddha attained enlightenment
- Muchalinda Sarovar: It marks the sixth week of the Buddha's post-enlightenment retreat
- Great Buddha Statue: It is the landmark image of modern Bodh Gaya, the first great Buddha built in India, consecrated by the...
- Sujata Stupa: It marks the house of Sujata, who offered the Buddha milk-rice under a banyan and ended his years of...
- Sujata Kuti: Pilgrims walking the Sujata route from Bodh Gaya stop here alongside the stupa
- Dungeshwari Cave Temple: This is where Siddhartha Gautama is believed to have practised severe austerities for six years before...
- Jagannath Temple, Bodh Gaya: Hindus in Bodh Gaya come for darshan and for the daily Mahaprasad
- Maya Sarovar: It is a devotional and family stop associated with Maya Devi, more a park and evening show than a shrine
Questions pilgrims ask
Why is Chinese Temple important?
Built in 1945 by Chinese Buddhist monks and renovated in 1997, about a five-minute walk west of the Mahabodhi complex. Pagoda-style roof with red and gold accents. Inside are three golden Buddha statues and a large Bodhisattva image, plus a 200-year-old Buddha statue brought from China. Travelogues by Chinese pilgrim-scholars are displayed.
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