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Bodh Gaya

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Bodh Gaya or Buddh Gaya (both: bd gä`yä), village (1991 pop. 21,692), Bihar state, E central India. According to tradition, Buddha Buddha (b`də, b
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 received enlightenment in Bodh Gaya. The city has extensive relics of Buddhist sculpture (8th–12th cent. A.D.) and is the seat of Magadh Univ. Buddhist pilgrims from throughout the world travel there.
Buddh Gaya, Buddha Gaya, Bodh Gaya
a town in NE India, in Bihar: site of the sacred bo tree under which Gautama Siddhartha attained enlightenment and became the Buddha; pilgrimage centre. Pop.: 30 883 (2001)


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Yet many have become, instead, centers of conflict, from the Crusades of the Middle Ages to today's tussle over India's Bodh Gaya.
At Bodh Gaya he writes a brief and lucid discourse on the division in Buddhism between those who regard Buddha as a deity and those who see him as a teacher.
 
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