Surname 1 Name Course Institution Date GEOGRAPHIC AND HISTORICAL BACKGROUND FOR BODHGAYA The position at which the

Enlightenment took place became a place of pilgrimage. Though it is not recorded in the scriptures, the Buddha must have gone to Bodhgaya again when he was educating people on Buddhism. After the Enlightenment nearly 250 ago, Ashoka the Buddhist Emperor went to Bodhgaya and is thought of as the one who discovered the Mahabodhi Temple. As per the tradition of Buddhism, Ashoka, as well as bringing forth the idea of a monastery, he also built a diamond throne holy place at this place with an awning reinforced by four pillars over a boulder illustration of the Vajrasana, the Seat of Enlightenment. The structural design of the sanctuary is outstanding but its history is masked in gloom. It was put up with the key purpose of making it a shrine and not a holder for the vestiges of the Buddha. Some shrines were erected with enshrined descriptions for use as spaces of devotion there are accounts of pilgrims coming to Bodhgaya from all over India and from approximately every land and state where Buddhism spread. The cellar of the current holy place is 15m square feet; 15m in length as well as in width and its elevation is 52m which ascends in the form of a lean pyramid lessening off from a square stage. On its four corners, there are four towers elegantly rising to the same height. The entire structural design gives pose and a sense of balance to the spectators. In the interior of the temple there is a gigantic representation of the Buddha in the touching the earth style, bhumisparsha

Surname 2 mudra. This icon is said to be 1700 years old and is facing east precisely at the place where the Buddha in contemplation with his backside to the Bodhi tree was progressive.

BODHGAYA

BODHI TREE

Surname 3 THE IMPORTANCE AND UNIQUENESS OF BODHGAYA Bodhgaya is the spot where Buddha Gautama realized incomparable, ultimate enlightenment. Every religious person should make a point of visiting this spot which would cause attentiveness and anxiety of the nature of impermanence. The most important appeal for pilgrims at Bodh Gaya was the Vajrasana and the other six locations where the Buddha had resided. An additional appeal was the Mahabodhi representation, an effigy in the Mahabodhi Temple that was alleged to be an accurate resemblance of the Buddha himself.

BODHGAYA IN A TEMPLE

THE RELEVANCE OF BODHGAYA Bodhgaya is a very sanctified spot to Buddhists as it is the spot where the Buddha realized enlightenment after years of reparation. The prodigy relates that the Bodhi tree was damaged by the monarch Ashoka before his absorption to the credence his offspring Sanghamitra took a seedling to Sri Lanka, and planted it at Anuradhpura, where its branches were tendered, and a seedling was brought back and replanted here. Pilgrims fasten painted yarn to its extensive twigs, decked out by prayer garlands, and Tibetans are adjunct to their practices with

Surname 4 protracted lines of butter lamps. A granite wedge with engraved sides next to the tree is assumed to be the Vajrasana or "thunder seat" upon which Buddha sat facing east. On the right hand side of the complex foyer stands the Animeshlochana Temple that symbolizes the place where the Buddha stood and looked upon the Bodhi Tree in appreciation. The stretched raised stage known as the Chankramana along the northern partition marks the place where the Buddha walked around in contemplation. At the bottom of the Bodhi tree, the Sakya Muni, Gautam accomplished Mahapari Nirvana and became the progressive Lord Buddha. The tree, which is seen in the present day, is an express progeny of the first tree underneath which the Buddha sat for years and realized the reality he was in quest of. Almost two centuries after the Buddha became the progressive one, the Emperor Ashoka sent out sprouts of this tree to Sri Lanka. Later on the sprouts were brought from the mature tree and planted at Bodh Gaya. Besides the tree, there is a raised stage showing the place where the Buddha sat in deliberation.
Inside the holy place is an image made with gold of the Buddha. ChankraMana another raised stage marks the spot where the Buddha paced up and down as he deliberated on whether he should disclose his understanding to the human race. This is acknowledged as his Jewel Walk. Ratna Gar a tiny shrine near the main holy place where the Buddha is believed to have spent a week in meditation while a beam of five diverse insignia radiated from his body. A universal conviction holds that if an individual rotate the Wheel of Law for a total of three revolutions, their iniquities are pardoned. Bodhgaya absolutely reflects the Buddhist customs and sustains the Buddhas time of reparation, his knowledge and way of life, even in the present day and these factors ensure that the Bodhgaya is a very important place for the followers of and for that reason his followers have kept him, his teachings and places he resided during his meditation alive.

CHALLENGES A spot of atrocious paucity, effluence, germs and filth, Bodhgaya is debatably one of the most consecrated places in the world. The challenges evident at the Bodhgaya have never been more perceptible than at the Kalachakra 2012 launch. The festival of global harmony drew guests in astounding numbers to the spot where the Buddha realized enlightenment.

Surname 5 Natives from all nations draped themselves in coverlets to protect themselves against the wintry weather, many in face-masks to keep the dirt out. Hordes of nuns and monks came from different Asian countries, homeless people lined the roads clothed in rags, holding begging tins, some bound up or walking with the help of crutches, some so defectively malformed they shuffled along on all fours, all devoid of a place to slumber at nighttime Goats, hogs, cattle and natives alike foraged through heaps of garbage. Bodhgaya has the main challenge of pollution and poverty that has plagued the sanctified site and turned it into an eyesore.

The Karmapa became conscious of the different dumping sites for garbage in the neighborhood of Tergar. It was instantaneously evident that plastic was the major contaminant. These all-too-common not reusable plastics can percolate chemicals that are hazardous to human health, and pollute the earth when left to decay for long periods in

Surname 6 dumping sites. When set on fire, they discharge chemicals into the environment that adds to respiratory and other wellbeing problems as well as carbon emissions. The Kalachakra and its complementary incursion of tourists really put to the test the efficacy of the plastics veto and SETs efforts to be in charge of waste. Two hundred waste bins were set in place eternally, and three large permanent waste dumping sites were formed to substitute dumping grounds on the road sides.

The sequential bombing on July 7, 2013 at the sacrosanct Mahabodhi temple compound in Bodhgaya marks the commencement of a hazardous tendency at attacking ciphers of Indias cultural tradition.