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Rare Maurya and Pala period sculptures help tell how early Buddhist art developed.
Painted in colour and built in Bhutanese style, it is a gathering place for Bhutanese Buddhist pilgrims.
The tree here is a sapling of a sapling, its line traced through Sri Lanka back to the original beneath which the Buddha sat.
An 80-foot Buddha in sandstone and red granite, consecrated by the Dalai Lama in 1989.
Here the Buddha attained enlightenment. The Bodhi tree beside the temple descends from a cutting sent to Sri Lanka by Ashoka's daughter.
Sujata offered the Buddha rice milk before his enlightenment, and this stupa remembers her act of compassion.
One of the earliest foreign monasteries at Bodh Gaya, with intricate gold decoration in Thai style.