Bodhgaya, India

Travel Blogs from Bodhgaya (34)

Vipassana and the Eightfold Path, Bodhgaya, Bihar, India travel blog
Vipassana and the Eightfold Path
Jan 12, 2007

... more aware of my body. Now I can concentrate my mind better. Now I can react better to the sometimes difficult street scenes of India. Now I can gain more insight into the human body and environment. It's not easy. As I write this ten days later, my ...

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Enlightenment Under the Pippala Tree, Bodhgaya, India travel blog
Enlightenment Under the Pippala Tree
Dec 31, 2006

Around the Mahabodhi Temple, a few ancient Pippala, known now as Bodhi trees, provide shade for those performing prostrations, meditating, circumambulating the Mahabodhi Temple, or creating mandalas. Their branches extend outwards in all directions, ...

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Travels with Two Buddhas: Enlightenment, Walking in Buddha
Travels with Two Buddhas: Enlightenment
Dec 31, 2006

... New construction continues as more temples, guest houses, and the world's largest Buddha are being built. In the center of Bodhgaya is the Mahabodhi Temple, erected on the site of enlightenment. After years of disrepair and a decline in Buddhism, the ...

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Bodhissatva Vow, Walking in Buddha
Bodhissatva Vow
Jan 1, 2007

This entry is dedicated to the non-sectarian, non-denominational, non-class, non-judgemental Buddha nature found purely within all of us. The Beastie Boys, the Kagyu Prayers for World Peace, Milarepa are all interconnected and inseparable, like the ...

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Forum Discussions on Bodhgaya (2)

Planning for my BIG trip - NEED Help and Advice
Posted on Aug 30, 2009, 21:47:38
... DAY 77. Patna/Vaishali/Kesariya/Patna - Hire driver? DAY 78. Patna/Nalanda DAY 79. Nalanda DAY 80. Nalanda/Rajgir DAY 81. Rajgir DAY 82. Rajgir/Bodhgaya DAY 83. Bodhgaya DAY 84. Bodhgaya/Buddhist Retreat? If so add about 10 days DAY 85. Bohgay/Kolkata - 8 ...
Most Impressive Temples, Churches, Mosques Etc
Posted on Jan 26, 2008, 11:16:11
... you could just sit all day. A few places have stuck with me for one reason or another: Mahabodhi Temple in Bodhgaya, where the Buddha achieved enlightenment under the bodhi tree. Tabo Monastery, Ladakh, the place the Dalai Lama considers his favorite ...

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