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The Mahabodhi Temple (literally: "Great Awakening Temple") or the Mahabodhi Mahavihar, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is an ancient, but much rebuilt and restored, Buddhist temple in Bodh Gaya, marking the location where the Buddha is said to have attained enlightenment.
[1] Bodh Gaya (in Gaya district) is about 96xc2xa0km (60xc2xa0mi) from Patna, Bihar state, India.
Ashoka's Mahabodhi Temple and Diamond throne in Bodh Gaya, built c. 250 BCE.
In approximately 250 BCE, about 200 years after the Buddha attained Enlightenment, Emperor Ashoka of the Mauryan Empire visited Bodh Gaya in order to establish a monastery and shrine on the holy site, which have today disappeared.
Reconstitution of the Sunga period pillars at Bodh Gaya, from archaeology (left) and from artistic relief (right).
The railing also around the Mahabodhi Temple at Bodh Gaya is quite ancient.
Sunga railings at Bodh Gaya Original railings Early photographs of the railings (Henry Baily Wade Garrick, 1880).
Bodh Gaya Sunga pillar.
Bodh Gaya Sunga railing.
Bodh Gaya Sunga railing.
Bodh Gaya Sunga railing.
Bodh Gaya Sunga railing.
Bodh Gaya original railings, Indian Museum, Calcutta.
Bodh Gaya original railings, Indian Museum, Calcutta.
The railings today at Bodh Gaya(mainly plaster duplicates) Plaster copy and reconstruction of original Sunga railing.
[21] This is confirmed by archaeological excavations in Bodh Gaya.
[25] During the 12th century CE, Bodh Gaya and the nearby regions were invaded by Muslim Turk armies, led by Delhi Sultanate's Qutb al-Din Aibak and Bakhtiyar Khilji.
Bodh Gaya quadriga relief of the sun god Surya riding between pillars (detail of a railing post), 2ndxe2x80x931st century BCE.
One of its primary aims was the restoration to Buddhist control of the Mahabodhi Temple at Bodh Gaya, the chief of the four ancient Buddhist holy sites.
It was then the temple management of Bodh Gaya was entrusted to a committee comprised in equal numbers of Hindus and Buddhists.
[39][40] The campaign was partially successful in 1949, when control passed from the Hindu mahant to the state government of Bihar, which established a Bodh Gaya Temple Management Committee (BTMC) under the Bodh Gaya Temple Act of 1949.
In 2013, the Bihar government amended the Bodh Gaya Temple Act of 1949, allowing for a non-Hindu to head the temple committee.
[43][44] These Buddhists included such leaders as Bhante Anand (president of the Akhil Bharatiya Bhikkhu Mahasangh, an influential body of monks), as well as the president of the Bodh Gaya Mukti Andolan Samiti.
Pursuant to the Bodh Gaya Temple Act of 1949, such responsibilities are shared with the Bodhgaya Temple Management Committee,[48] and an advisory board.
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Bodh Gaya Chedi Replica at Wat Yansangwararam, Chonburi Province, Thailand
Zhenjue Temple, Beijing, China Mahabodhi Temple, Bagan, Myanmar Wat Chet Yot, Chiang Mai, Thailand Thatta Thattaha Maha Bawdi Pagoda, Myanmar Land of Medicine Buddha, Soquel, CA U.S.A. (near Santa Cruz, CA) [62] Bodh Gaya Chedi Replica (Chedi Phutthakhaya Chamlong) in Wat Yansangwararam, Chonburi Province, Thailand[63]
The Mahabodhi Temple Complex, Bodh Gaya lies 115 km south of the state capital of Bihar, Patna and 16 km from the district headquarters at Gaya, in Eastern India.
The present Mahabodhi Temple Complex at Bodh Gaya comprises the 50 m high grand Temple, the Vajrasana, sacred Bodhi Tree and other six sacred sites of Buddha's enlightenment, surrounded by numerous ancient Votive stupas, well maintained and protected by inner, middle and outer circular boundaries.
The sculpted stone balustrades are an outstanding early example of sculptural reliefs in stone.Criterion (vi): The Mahabodhi Temple Complex in Bodh Gaya has direct association with the life of the Lord Buddha, being the place where He attained the supreme and perfect insight.
Even though the structure has suffered from neglect and repairs in various periods, it has retained its essential features intact.AuthenticityThe belief that Buddha had attained Enlightenment in this particular place has been confirmed by tradition and is now called Bodh Gaya, this is of supreme value to the world.
Buddhist texts of both Theravadhan and Mahayanan traditions have clear reference of this event of Buddha's enlightenment at Bodh Gaya.
Buddhists from all over the world today venerate Bodh Gaya as the holiest place of Buddhist pilgrimage in the world.
On the basis of the Bodh Gaya Temple Act of 1949, the State Government is responsible for the management and protection of the property through Bodhgaya Temple Management Committee (BTMC) and Advisory Board.