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Bodh Gaya

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Bodh Gaya & Day at the Burmese Vihar
 Burmese Temple  Day in her room
 The Burmese Temple at the vihar (Buddhist monastery), under construction. View from the road outside the gates. Day in her room 
 Main Stupa  Day at the stupa

 Main Stupa on Day's birthday

This is the site of bodi tree under which the Buddha realized enlightenment. A great, great great descendant of the tree still grows here.

 Day lights candles at the stupa
 Tibetan Temple, interior  Burmese temple construction

 Tibetan Temple, interior.

Day brought us there to check on the progress of the mural painting

Burmese Temple construction, with the ubiquitous bamboo scaffolding
 dogs & friend  friend
 Fellow student and two of the vihar's dogs  Day with a friend who will be returning to her native Vienna after living in India for 10 years
 View from the balcony  Reading on the balcony

  View from the balcony. Rice harvest is over, and flooding the fields for the next planting hasn't happened yet.

 Reading on the balcony outside Day's room

tibetan market

Shopping for gifts at the Tibetan refugees' tent-market

Calcutta [] CaveTemples 1 , 2 & 3 [] Ganeshpuri/Mumbai [] Varanasi 1 & 2 [] Bodh Gaya [] Scenes Enroute 1 & 2

 

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