Namgyal Monastery, Bodh Gaya

Monastery · Gautama Buddha · Bodh Gaya, Gaya, Bihar

Pilgrims turn the prayer wheels and attend teachings when the Dalai Lama is in Bodh Gaya

A Tibetan monastery in Bodh Gaya holding large prayer wheels. Namgyal is the Dalai Lama's personal monastery.

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Sit with a monastery: Eighteen countries keep a monastery here, and several teach anybody who walks in

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.

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

A Tibetan monastery in Bodh Gaya holding large prayer wheels. Namgyal is the Dalai Lama's personal monastery.

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