Another Chinese Buddhist traveler hiuen tsang who visited the place sometwo
hundred year after fa –hien .in 637 .A.D . describes this sangharama in
mahabodhi sangharama in following word _ the mahabodhi sangharamastands
without the left gates of the boundary wall of te mahabodhi tree by the king of
siri lanka . it contains six big room and the temple has three minarets the
vihara is occupied by over a thousand monk ,who belong to the there tradition
of the amhayana Buddhism and are most accurate in observing the rules of
discipline , siri lanka ahd been maintaining chose relations with bodhagaya
since the time of asoka when a branch was personally carried there by asoka,s
daughter sanghamitra . the siri lanka Buddhists have been venerating the
mahabodhi- tree and the mahabodhi mahavihara ever since . cordial relation
between india and siri lanka flow from te same period . A pilgrim from tamraparni ( airi lanka )
In first century B.C joined the contributors who donated for the construction of a boundary wall
Around the mahavihara tree . in the fifth century A.D sramana prakhyata kiti of
the lankan royal lineage venerated the three Gems (worshipped) here .A.D center
later,a thera mahanama from there donated a statue of the Buddha here .in 588-85 A.D
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