Niranjana Hotel Bodh Gaya

Near China Mandir Bodh Gaya, Bihar, India

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The third inevitable

A travel blog entry by jonpoland

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... food, which is a bad sign. So I figure if I want authentic Thai food, I'd better go to a restaurant with "Thai" in the name.

Siam Thai, the one mentioned in Lonely Planet and just down the street from a spectacular Thai temple (OK, maybe the Japanese shouldn't design everything), got a mixed review saying that the meal was a little off. While I loved the appetizer (essentially Egg Foo Young), the Pad Thai was in fact ...

Kalachakra mudpuddle

A travel blog entry by jonpoland

... year they are lumped in with the monks, first come, first served. The times, they are a changing.

I scan the foreigner sections. Unfortunately for me, I didn't get the tip that there was going to be an opportunity to get access to the grounds the day before and reserve a seat. What's left is slim pickings. The massive tent is set up in two sections. A central tent that rises up, with a slanting plastic roof and secondary ...

Ngondro interrupted

A travel blog entry by jonpoland

... assisted by military personnel.

The Dalai Lama was coming to the Mahabodhi Temple and they needed to clear everyone out.

This was quite a chore for them given the fact that they were mostly trying to herd Indians and Tibetans, who are not the most cooperative bunch. I decided to hang around just outside the gate to the temple near the reception building so see how the process goes. It took over an hour to ...

The Buddha that saved Tokyo

A travel blog entry by jonpoland

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... of Tokyo knowing that they had only one hope, switched on a searchlight to flash the Buddha signal, a dharmachakra. Upon seeing this, the giant stone Buddha rose from his seat and began lumbering toward Japan.

It took a while for the Giant Stone Buddha to actually reach Tokyo, and so unfortunately much of the metropolis was destroyed by then. But when he did ...

My Beautiful Rant

A travel blog entry by jonpoland

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... home. The reason it's so relatively expensive is that the Dalai Lama is coming to confer the Kalachakra Tantra empowerment. They're busy building massive temporary structures covering every available nearby open space to house who knows how may thousands of people. It's going to be a total zoo of wall-to-wall Buddhists starting December 30th or so. Given the limited infrastructure of Bodhgaya, by the end of the empowerment on January 10th, ...

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