Bodhgaya

Bodhgaya

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December 31st 2011

Published: January 22nd 2012

I've been back in New Delhi for the past week after three weeks in Bodhgaya. For non-Buddhist readers, Bodhgaya is in Bihar State, which is in central northeastern India, near Nepal. Bodhgaya is like the Mecca or Jerusalem of Buddhism, as it is the location where Shakyamuni Buddha, the forth Buddha of this world system attained enlightenment 2500 years ago beneath the bodhi tree. We are curren... Read Full Entry

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Root Institute

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Cause and effect. Lord Shakyamuni Buddha and the great sage that followed Archaya Nagarjuna.

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Root Institute

gateway entrance to Root Instutute which features its own Police substation

Root Institute

Bihar Condo living

available at screaming low prices!

....

.....with free pork for a year!

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Riding along on the rickshaw Christmas seeking out my security pass for HH Dalai Lama's Kalachakra teachings and initiation.

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Bihar state tourist office

Thai temple

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Stupa at the Chinese temple

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Home sweet home . Tent 39 in Choldary Camp.

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Nyingma Monlam Foundation monastery and dormitory for Sera Mey.

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Nyingma Monlam Foundation monastery and dormitory for Sera Mey.

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Nyingma Monlam Foundation monastery and dormitory for Sera Mey.

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Nyingma Monlam Foundation monastery and dormitory for Sera Mey.

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Roadside sign on Bodh Gaya Road leading to access road to Root Institute.

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Tibetan flag I saw on road to Root. It was also one of the many tented Tibetan restaurants open just for the event. In our tent city, we had a whole tented mall of like twelve Tibetan restaurants to choose from. The menus were mostly the same, standard Tibetan fair, but some were better than others. A robust organization of Tibetan youth for veganism by far had the best. We at there most often.

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One of the many monastic facilities under construction.

14th July 2012

bhandariseo
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