Bodh Gaya
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noun
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I was in Bodh Gaya in the northern Indian state of Bihar, the birthplace of Buddhism, on the first night of Diwali, the Hindu festival of light.
From Salon • Feb. 2, 2025
Finally, he attained awakening and became the Buddha while meditating under a peepal tree in Bodh Gaya, a village in the northeastern Indian state of Bihar.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2023
Reverence surrounds the Bodhi Tree, in Bodh Gaya, India; the Cypress of Abarkuh, in Iran; the Hibakujumoku trees, in Hiroshima, which withstood the atomic blast.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 13, 2020
Many Japanese tourists come to India to visit Bodh Gaya, the site where the Buddha is said to have attained enlightenment in the sixth century B.C.
From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2015
Many of the old sites, such as Râjagṛiha and Gaya, were deserted but there were new towns near them and Bodh Gaya was a place of pilgrimage with three monasteries.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 by Eliot, Charles, Sir
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