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Asia » India » Bihar » Bodh Gaya January 19th 2006

More temples were visited today, including the Bhutanese (another masterpiece of colour and life). We also popped in to the minuscule Archaeological Museum, which appeared to be doubling as a mosquito zoo. After lunch we made the journey across the (dry) river (bed) to visit the Sujata Temple, Sujata being the lady who had fed Buddha when he became thin from too much thinking and not enough eating. As is the custom in these parts, as soon as our rickshaw hove into view of the neighbouring village, we were spotted by 2 boys who then accompanied us to the temple, providing information about the Buddha story that we already knew. The walk to the temple was on raised narrow earthen paths between fields that were sown with potatoes, cauliflowers, spring onions, and umpteen other vegetables. With ... read more

Everybody needs some bodhi

Asia » India » Bihar » Bodh Gaya January 18th 2006

Giant Buddha

Jabe

I said what about breakfast at Tenzin's, which George agreed to. It was another tent restaurant along the same strip as Mohamed's, and seemed to have an almost identical menu. I suspect that most of these places are offering the same food, but if they're not in the guidebooks then no-one goes to them. A summary of our round of temple spotting would say that the Tibetan and Thai temples were the most ornate, the Chinese one a little less so, and the Japanese one fairly austere. The Tibetan and Thai were amazingly colourful and vibrant, and your spirits couldn't help being lifted just by seeing the exteriors, never mind the detail of the interiors. Near the south of the town, there was a giant (hollow) stone Buddha that was also very impressive in its scale. ... read more

The enlightenment at the end of the tunnel

Asia » India » Bihar » Bodh Gaya January 17th 2006

Thai temple, Bodhgaya

Jabe

The one hour estimate that I had been given to get to Varanasi station to catch a 5:10AM train was exceedingly conservative, so I arrived 45 minutes too early. As I was waiting on the platform, I fell into conversation with a South African guy called George, who was tacking a week of relaxation in Varanasi and Bodhgaya on to the end of a business trip. Interestingly, he had attended a Vipassana meditation course in the latter back in 1973, when the place was still a village and had not been fully embraced by the global Buddhist community. We were in different sections of the train, so we arranged to meet up in Gaya and share a rickshaw to Bodhgaya. Today was my first trip in Sleeper class, which is the lowest class that you can ... read more

Puri y Bodhgaya

Asia » India » Bihar » Bodh Gaya January 11th 2006

marietacano

Y ahora en Espanyol, Donde estamos? Estamos en India. Hace cuanto tiempo? Llegamos hace casi 4 semanas. Que tal India? Diferente a cualquier otro pais en el mundo. Diferente? Si diferente. La India, pais sucio, lleno de flores y aromaticos jazmines, muriendose de hambre con deliciosos manjares y frutas en cada esquina. Desde Agosto hemos estado en el Reino Unido, Espanya, Alemania, Rusia, Mongolia, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Tailandia y por fin India. Mi opinion (personal y no objetiva) es que India es un pais fantastico, donde tienes que reflexionar y pensar, donde la vida del viajero no es facil, es un pais que te cambia. Te cambia cuando ves la pobreza extrema, los ninyos emppujados por sus madres para pedir dinero a los turistas. Y es que en India el trabajo para ninyos no esta prohibido, ... read more

Foooootball in the village

Asia » India » Bihar » Bodh Gaya February 6th 2005

moorepants

Bodhgaya has been a great place to stay and we are regretting having to leave to Kolkata tomorrow. But we are trying to stick to one month in the north and the second in the south so we've got to get moving to make it by the 15th. We came across a wonderful school in the nearby village and have been helping out with the orphans that stay there. Today we played a soccer match in a field by the river and ate lunch with the kids. The school children that do have parents are very poor. The parents are usually farmers and only make about 50 cents a day. And these people are working much harder and longer than almost everyone in the US. It actually only costs 60 US dollars to sponsor a child ... read more

Walking the path of the Buddha

Asia » India » Bihar » Bodh Gaya February 4th 2005

Giant Buddha

moorepants

Bodhgaya, the city of enlightenment. We are now enveloped in the realm of buddhism. We are staying in the Burmese Buddhist Monastery for the next four nights. We visited the Mahabodhi Temple this morning and meditated under the Bodhi tree. This is a decendent of the actual tree that the Buddha sat under when he became enlightened and is the most holy pilgrimage site for Buddhists to visit. There are many other temples and historical sites around the city that mark important places where the Buddha taught and meditated. We are also going to try and help out at a local ashram/orphanage and/or some local schools in the next couple of days. E.... read more

India is great: from Delhi to Bodhgaya

Asia » India » Bihar » Bodh Gaya October 6th 2004

Ajanta Hotel in Delhi

kumgang

(h2)India is great(/h2) I did my travel to India after some research on Indian history and arts, as I was going to make a pilgrimage to the Buddhist places mainly. Through the internet I made contact with some places where I could stay while in Bodhgaya. My travel agent in Buenos Aires booked me a room in a hotel near the New Delhi Railway Station. This hotel also offers a transfer service from the airport, which is really helpful if you arrive at night, as it was my case. Upon arrival, the experience is really overwhelming: the noise, the insects, the heat and the strange smells you feel, are like a nightmare. You are arriving to this weird place after so many hours on flight, tired and sleepy, so it’s hard to cope with. I was ... read more

Brief history of India

The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in...more history

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