Tibetan Temple, Bodh Gaya
Monastery · Gautama Buddha; Maitreya · Bodh Gaya, Gaya, Bihar
Tibetan pilgrims come for prayer, and other visitors come to turn the great Dharmachakra
A Tibetan-style monastery near the Mahabodhi Temple, described by Outlook Traveller as the biggest and oldest monastery in Bodh Gaya and dated by it to 1934 (the Incredible India guide gives 1938). Its best-known feature is a Dharmachakra wheel about 10 m high in gold and red, which people turn three times left to right. There is a statue of Maitreya, a golden Buddha, prayer wheels and murals, and Tibetan scripture and symbols throughout.
Plan your visit
- Best season
- September to April
- 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 Tibetan Temple important?
A Tibetan-style monastery near the Mahabodhi Temple, described by Outlook Traveller as the biggest and oldest monastery in Bodh Gaya and dated by it to 1934 (the Incredible India guide gives 1938). Its best-known feature is a Dharmachakra wheel about 10 m high in gold and red, which people turn three times left to right. There is a statue of Maitreya, a golden Buddha, prayer wheels and murals, and Tibetan scripture and symbols throughout.
When is the best time to visit Tibetan Temple?
September to April.
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