Wat Thai Buddhagaya
Monastery · Gautama Buddha · Bodh Gaya, Gaya, Bihar
Thai and other Theravada pilgrims come for the main Buddha image and for meditation sessions
The first foreign monastery at Bodh Gaya, founded 1957 by the Government of Thailand at the invitation of the Government of India, and modelled on Wat Benchamabophit in Bangkok. Sloping curved roofs in gilded tiles, an entrance gate with the Garuda emblem, guardian yaksha figures at the main hall, murals of the Story of Mahajanaka by Thai artists, an outer shell of stainless steel with mirror mosaics, a wooden main floor and a marble-floored meditation room beneath, set in Thai gardens.
Plan your visit
- Area
- Bodh Gaya
- Status
- Coming Soon
Yatras that include Wat Thai Buddhagaya
- Silence and Stillness: The Thai temple, and the oldest foreign monastery in the town.
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 Wat Thai Buddhagaya important?
The first foreign monastery at Bodh Gaya, founded 1957 by the Government of Thailand at the invitation of the Government of India, and modelled on Wat Benchamabophit in Bangkok. Sloping curved roofs in gilded tiles, an entrance gate with the Garuda emblem, guardian yaksha figures at the main hall, murals of the Story of Mahajanaka by Thai artists, an outer shell of stainless steel with mirror mosaics, a wooden main floor and a marble-floored meditation room beneath, set in Thai gardens.
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