Rajgir
Travel Blogs from Rajgir, India
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Travels with Two Buddhas: Meditation and Knowledge
Now the Buddha statues are on their way to their respective homes, mailed after visiting Nalanda and Rajgir via India's postal service--one to the U.S. and one back to Nepal to Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche. My backpack is much lighter now, as I continue to ...
Rajgir, eine Mela im aermsten Bundesstaat Indiens
... , stroemten Horden von Menschen aus den umliegenden Bezirken in diesen Ort und liessen die eh schon mangelhafte Infrastruktur zusammenbrechen. Rajgir versank, so versicherte mir einer der VIER Englisch sprechenden Inder, die ich dort in 3 Tagen traf, im ...
Rajgir
... recently been laid to take its place. The conventional wisdom suggests that King Bimbasari saw the Buddha taking a walk around Rajgir and, immediately impressed with him, saught him out to be his spiritual teacher and offered him half the kingdom. ...
Rajgir
Rajgir is a dusty town 3.5 hours away from Patna on the train I got the train with only a few hastles. It departed rammed to Rajgir on time (ish) and it was a pretty successful morning. On the way to Rajgir i was warned no fewer than 3 times about how ...
Bling and Being
... ha ha.. no please stop, I didn't mean it, it was just an honest pun, guv). Bodhgaya is the small town in Northern India where the Indian prince Gautama Siddharta sat under a Bodhi tree to meditate on human suffering, and became enlightened. So it is the ...
Oo oo oo come on let's ride a Tonga
... natural daylight but it seems clean enough, so we get our breakfast before heading out. There wasn't a lot of information available about Rajgir but one intriguing bit of information was how we get around, the best way we are reliably informed is by tonga ...
Vulture Peak Mountain, Bamboo Grove and Nalanda
... but it might as well be. It has three major destinations: The Bamboo Grove where the Buddha Summered outside of Rajgir. Vulture Peak Mountain which was one of the Buddha's favorite contemplation spots and where the Second Turning of the Wheel of ...
The Indian Bermuda Triangle
... to perspective reading that. Anyway we have two trains to catch today and due to the chain pulling antics on the way out to Rajgir we are not hopeful of making our connection, although we have allowed about 2 hours between trains, and the other train is ...
Australia Give India A Cricket Lesson
... over the Indians. Finally dismissed in the 8th over lobbing a tired shot to leg gully the Australians then only scored 5 more runs. India's run chase started of slow only scoring 6 runs from the first 3 over and losing 2 wickets. Rayner took 2 wickets in ...
On the train to nowhere
... Rajgir is the next stop, around half an hour away - at last!! It is now totally dark outside and we are famished. Before Rajgir, the train conductor comes to see us, checks we are okay and tells us we are nearly there. Not 500m from the ...
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