Hotel Sujata Vihar Gaya

... 13.5 hours. We didn't end up staying at the place we wanted to because it was full, so we got taken to a place by our rickshaw driver who we were annoyed with. The room was really loud but clean at least. The owner was very nice to us though, he went out with us to get medicine when were sick. So the first two days in Varanasi didn't even seem like we were there because we were just in bed the whole time, we just went up to the roof top restaurant to eat soup. The first night that we were ...

... I don't know - it sounds like she was jealous of her husband spending so much time with it, but that sounds rather ridiculous). Ashoka's daughter, Sanghamitta, snuck a sapling of the tree and secretly brought it to Sri Lanka where it was replanted. What grows here now on the site is a cutting of that tree that was carried back to Bodhgaya. http://www.ebudhaindia.com/holy_sites/b odhi_tree.htm The temple is magnificent, though has a number of neon lights on it which makes ...

... As I came closer to Vulture's Peak I could see the chair lifts carrying visitors up the steep mountain, which protruded out of the surrounding flat ground. According to a book I had been reading by Thich Nhat Hanh, King Bimbasari had a stone path laid to accomodate the Buddha and his sangha, who regularly made the long climb up and down the mountain. This path remained in place at the time the book had been written but it was obvious that a new path ...

... us. We take pictures of them, because they keep asking and begging (it doesnt take me very long to take pics of them anyways) and they love looking at themselves in the display. Really cute how they start posing and laughing. In the end, they challenge us(or we them, but doubt it) to a soccer game tomorrow evening. Wow we are pretty scared but plotting and preparing hard. Probably we'll paint our faces with the powder used to draw ...

foi aqui que buda atingiu a iluminacao. a arvore original, sob a qual ele atingiu a ilumincao foi destruida. mas exatamente no mesmo ponto replantaram-na de um ramo da arvore original. construiram um templo no local. e praticamennte todas as faccoes budistas do mundo construiram um monosterio na cidade.

... his sermon. Another interesting place in Gaya is Tankitamancha, now a large tank called Sujikund, where the Buddha had his well known encounter and dialogue with the malevolent spirit Suchiloma; (see Sutta Nipata, discourse No 5). Sujikund is surrounded by a wall made of huge blocks of stone and you will notice a few stupas and Buddhist statues near the ghat at the northern end. It is a quiet, rather haunting place and worth a visit. Sujikund is near the Vishnupada ...

... the noise outside beckoned us from our room and we ventured out to see what the town had in store for us. We were greeted with roadside carts of bags and clothing and Jonathan elatedly purchased his birthday present, a bag he has been after since spotting one on the shoulder of a fellow meditator in Thailand. Not to mention every second monk as well. A hidden store of silks catches our eye and Louisa manages to escape with only 3 silk scarves after ...

... on finding your own path and working only as hard as you felt like. After Burma, I am a pretty disciplined one and managed to get myself up 1.5 hours before everyone else to begin practicing. It is not a competition however. I showed up at the center a couple days early to help set up and was very surprised to see two friends who sat with me in Burma. Although we only spoke for a few hours before the Burma ...

... I was getting late to a meeting and I walked upto this guy to figure the time and I asked - 'Bhai saab kya time hua hai' 'Brother, what time is it' he gave me a dirty look and says 'Ghadi tumhar liye pahane hey ka' 'Have I worn this watch for you??' Its sad the English language cannot capture the essence of the Bihari babu

... Daraus resultierte eine Frontalkollision mit einem Motorradfahrer und den 2 Personen, die als Geisterfahrer in einem Fahrbahnwechsel mir den Weg raubten. Niemandem war was passiert, doch der Aufprall hat die Gabel verdreht! Mit grosser Muehe doch noch in Gaya angekommen. XXXXX Calcutta is of course not a feel-good city. Especially the hassling beggars make life difficult. Nevertheless it was not that horrible like man used to ...