ေလ့လာလုိသူမ်ား အတြက္ အခန္းဆက္တင္ေပးပါမယ္။....

The significance of bodhgaya

Situated around 12 km . south to the city of Gaya in bihar , Bodhgaya is the most sacred 

place for the Buddhist all over the world . it was here that bodhisatta Siddhartha attained 

enlightenment to become the Buddha. Bodhgaya is to Buddhists what mecca and medina are to mulims or Bethlehem is to Christians , perhaps even more . as of now the place stands

beside niranjana ( now phalgu) surrounding sambodhi or mahabodhi and near the ancient 

village of uruvela . Sanskrit for uruvela . is uruvilva  where as urubilba . acaryabuddhaghosa 

explains it as uruvela as mahavela ( the great coast ) thus , the ancient uruvela is now 

renowned as bodhgaya .

King Asoka had become a Buddhist monk towards the end of his life . inspired by his 

righteousness , asoka  mentioned the plae as sambodhi in his edict, but over time it came to 

be known as mahabodhi . fa hien, the Chinese Buddhist traveler who visited the place in 409 

A.D  did not inclufr it in his writing .but another Chinese traveler , hieun –tsang , who

Came here in 637  A.D  mentioned it as amhabodhi vihara . the place had since been refered  

  to by the same name as is evident from the inscriptions .discovered in bodhgaya . only the 

eminent Tibetan Buddhist pilgrim ,dharmsami chag –lo tso ba-rij-dapl, who visited the place 

in 1234 A.D  mentioned it as vajrasana the sacred place is now known as mahabodhi..