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Buddh Gaya

British  

/ ˈbʊd ɡəˈjɑː /

noun

1. a town in NE India, in Bihar: site of the sacred bo tree under which Gautama Siddhartha attained enlightenment and became the Buddha; pilgrimage centre. Pop: 30 883 (2001)

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Example Sentences

The rest was all there to be put back into place, including some 3,000 pieces of statuary, 432 balustrade niches and 72 latticed stupas, each with its own Buddha image.

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Somewhere inside its main hall is what is said to be the first Buddha image ever to arrive in Japan, so precious that only a replica is displayed once every seven years.

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For much of the Orient, the Buddha has been the dominating theme for artists, and to a large extent, the evolution of the Buddha image reveals the development of Eastern art itself.

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