A Thai temple guard watches over their temple in Bodhgaya. He also guards the beginning of our photo album here. (26 Mar 2014)
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The Dali Lama dedicated this huge statue of Buddha in Bodhgaya. (26 Mar 2014)
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This temple is built in front of the Bodhi tree where Buddha is said to have achieved enlightenment after sitting there for six years. (Click on the picture to see it from several angles.)(26 Mar 2014)
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This Bodhi tree, the tree where Buddha achieved enlightenment, is not the original tree. The original tree was destroyed by King Ashoka in ancient times. A shoot from that tree was saved and this tree is from that shoot. (26 Mar 2014)
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There are elephants on the roads in India. This one was along the highway into Kushinagar. (17 Mar 2014)
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The same elephant as we left him and continued forward. (17 Mar 2014)
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Petra is walking around the stupa in Kushinagar over what is believed to be the place where Buddha was cremated. Tradition says that when Buddha got here with his disciples, he said his body was getting too old and feeble to be taken care of. He died. (18 Mar 2014)
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I saw a tourist with this colorful umbrella and I couldn't resist taking it into my camera and bringing it along with me. (18 Mar 2014)
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Tourists as individuals and in groups flock to all the Buddhist sites. This orderly group of Chinese walk past a monk praying at the cremation stups. (18 Mar 2014)
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The Gautama temple stupa. (20 Mar 2014)
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A Buddha at the Gautama temple stupa. (20 Mar 2014)
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A group of tourist kids posed for another in Kushinagar and I got this picture. (20 Mar 2014)
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This monolithic sandstone statue of Buddha is over six meters long. The statue which dates to the fifth century AD was discovered anew by an Englishman in 1876. (18 Mar 2014)
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The head of the reclining Buddha. (18 Mar 2014)
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This is the very decorated Chinese and Vietnamese temple in Kushinagar. (20 Mar 2014)
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This is the decoration on the roof of the Chinese temple. (20 Mar 2014)
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This beautiful dragon decorates the hand rail of the main stairway at the Chinese temple. Another does the same on the other side of the main entrance. (20 Mar 2014)
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This jolly Buddha stands in the main hall of the Chinese temple. (20 Mar 2014)
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Finally the Bodhgaya Buddha closes this set of pictures. (26 Mar 2014)
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