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PICTURE FRAMES
A Living Experience
The BODH GAYA Buddha and Stupa
is the icon of the Buddhist World,
a much revered site for pilgrimage annually.
Sited in the In Buddhist symbolism, the lotus represents purity
of the body, speech and mind, as if floating above the murky
waters of material attachment and physical desire. According to
legend, Gautama Buddha’s first steps made lotus flowers appear
everywhere he stepped. of Gaya, Eastern India,
this Mahabodhi Temple Complex is one of the four holy sites
related to the life of the Lord Buddha, and particularly to the
attainment of Enlightenment. The first temple was built by
Emperor Asoka in the 3rd century B.C., and the present temple
dates from the 5th or 6th centuries. It is one of the earliest
Buddhist temples built entirely in brick, still standing in India,
from the late Gupta period.
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