Subject: View of the signage for the shrine. Buddha is said to have spent the fourth week after his englightenment here in meditation reflecting on the causal law.
Site Name: Bodhgaya
Date: 700-799 CE
Subject: General view of the shrine. This shrine is on the northwest side of Mahabodhi Temple. This is the site where Buddha is said to have spent the fourth week meditating on the Law of Dependent Organization (Patthana). Chinese pilgrim Xuanzang noted that Ratanaghara was the place where Buddha sat on a gemmed throne in a hall made of precious substances.
Site Name: Bodhgaya
Date: 700-799 CE
Subject: General view of the shrine. This shrine is on the northwest side of Mahabodhi Temple. This is the site where Buddha is said to have spent the fourth week meditating on the Law of Dependent Organization (Patthana). Chinese pilgrim Xuanzang noted that Ratanaghara was the place where Buddha sat on a gemmed throne in a hall made of precious substances.
Site Name: Bodhgaya
Date: 700-799 CE
Subject: General view of the shrine. This shrine is on the northwest side of Mahabodhi Temple. This is the site where Buddha is said to have spent the fourth week meditating on the Law of Dependent Organization (Patthana). Chinese pilgrim Xuanzang noted that Ratanaghara was the place where Buddha sat on a gemmed throne in a hall made of precious substances.
Site Name: Bodhgaya
Date: 700-799 CE
Subject: General view of the shrine. This shrine is on the northwest side of Mahabodhi Temple. This is the site where Buddha is said to have spent the fourth week meditating on the Law of Dependent Organization (Patthana). Chinese pilgrim Xuanzang noted that Ratanaghara was the place where Buddha sat on a gemmed throne in a hall made of precious substances.
Site Name: Bodhgaya
Date:
Subject: Signage marking Ratanaghara-The Place of Basic Contemplation or Jewel House
Site Name: Bodhgaya
Date: 700-799 CE
Subject: Shrine, doorway lintel
Site Name: Bodhgaya
Date: 700-799 CE
Subject: Images inside the shrine
Site Name: Bodhgaya
Date: 700-799 CE
Subject: Images inside the shrine
Site Name: Bodhgaya
Date: 700-799 CE
Subject: Image of Buddha in dharmachakra mudra (the Wheel of the teaching of the Dharma) in the shrine
Site Name: Bodhgaya
Date:
Subject: Miniature Stupas in the compound of Mahabodhi Temple
Site Name: Bodhgaya
Date:
Subject: Votive stupas in the Mahabodhi temple complex
Site Name: Bodhgaya
Date:
Subject: Votive stupas in the Mahabodhi temple complex
Site Name: Bodhgaya
Date:
Subject: Votive stupas in the Mahabodhi temple complex
Site Name: Bodhgaya
Date:
Subject: Votive stupas in the Mahabodhi temple complex
Site Name: Bodhgaya
Date:
Subject: Buddha image in the Mahabodhi temple compound
Site Name: Bodhgaya
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Subject: Crowned Buddha in the shrine of Mahabodhi temple compound
Site Name: Bodhgaya
Date:
Subject: Crowned Buddha in the shrine of Mahabodhi temple compound
Site Name: Bodhgaya
Date:
Subject: Buddha in Earth touching gesture or bhumiparsa mudra in the Mahabodhi temple compound
Site Name: Bodhgaya
Date:
Subject: Image of Buddha in Earth touching gesture or bhumiparsa mudra in the temple compound
Site Name: Bodhgaya
Date:
Subject: Image of Buddha in Earth touching gesture or bhumiparsa mudra in the temple compound, detail
Site Name: Bodhgaya
Date:
Subject: Image of Buddha in the Mahabodhi temple compound
Site Name: Bodhgaya
Date:
Subject: Inscribed 'The ancient ghat on the buddha kund tank was repaired by Gosain Belpat Gir'
Site Name: Bodhgaya
Date:
Subject: Signage to indicate starting point for the parikrama. Devotees walk clockwise round the reconstructed Mahabodhi temple as an indication of reverence.