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Buddhist Places In India

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Buddhist Places In India : Buddhist Temples in India Buddhist Places in India : The Buddhist Circuit - Holidify Sometimes it's amongst landscapes you have never seen before, colours you didn?t know existed, and lives you didn?t know could be lived, that you find the answers and reasons you were looking for. A vacation, holiday, journey and travelling thus can sometimes give you answers to questions you didn?t even know you were asking. These are Buddhist places in India for a Buddhist Pilgrimage tour, a journey that will make you look inside, above and beyond, otherwise known as the Buddhist trail in India. Here is the list of 22 Buddhist Places In India : Buddhist Temples in India 1. Bodh Gaya, Bihar - Buddha, Mahabodhi Tree and the Land of Nirvana 4.0   /5 View 20+ photos Known For :  Mahabodhi Temple    Great Buddha Statue    Tibetan Refugee Market Bodh Gaya is undoubtedly the centre of Buddhist places in India. Descendents of the Bodhi Tree, under which...

Significant Buddhist trees

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Dhamma Wheel Significant Buddhist trees (not Bodhi Tree) Forum rules 1   Significant Buddhist trees (not Bodhi Tree) Quote Post   Tue Feb 12, 2013 4:05 am Dear David/Members, I wonder why some Bodhi Tree pictures were gone...so I would like to post some: Bodhi Tree ---------------- Sal(Sala) Tree Religious significance Queen Māyā giving birth to the Buddha  In Hindu tradition, the sal tree is said to be favoured by Vishnu.[3] Its name shala, shaal or sal, comes from Sanskrit (शाल, śāla, literally "house"), a name that suggests it for housing timber; other names in the Sanskrit language are ashvakarna, chiraparna and sarja, among many others.[4] The sal tree is often confused with the ashoka tree (Saraca indica) in the ancient literature of the Indian Subcontinent. In Buddhist tradition, it is said that Queen Māyā of Sakya gave birth to Gautama Buddha under a sal tree or an asoka tree in a garden in Lumbini, in south Nepal, while grasping its branch. When this event took p...