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Here the Buddha attained enlightenment. The Bodhi tree beside the temple descends from a cutting sent to Sri Lanka by Ashoka's daughter.
Marking the exact spot where Siddhartha Gautama attained enlightenment beneath a Bodhi tree around the 6th century BCE, this is one of the earliest Buddhist temples built entirely in brick still standing in India, with its current structure dating largely to the 5th–6th century CE. Ashoka is believed to have built the first shrine here in the 3rd century BCE.
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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.