Bodh Gaya

Bodh Gaya, located in the state of Bihar, the town holds immense spiritual significance as the site where Buddha Shakyamuni attained enlightenment. It is considered the most revered of all Buddhist sacred sites and forms a key part of the Buddhist Circuit.
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  • Type: Town with 45,300 residents
  • Description: town
  • Also known as: “Buddh Gaya” and “Buddha Gaya”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mahabodhi Temple and Sujata Stupa.

Buddhist temple
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The or the Mahābodhi Mahāvihāra, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is an ancient, but restored Buddhist in Bodh Gaya, Bihar, India, marking the location where the Buddha is said to have attained enlightenment.

Buddhist temple
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, also Sujata Kuti stupa or Sujata Garh, is a Buddhist located in the village of Senanigrama slightly east of Bodh Gaya in the state of , .

Bodh Gaya

Latitude
24.6963° or 24° 41′ 47″ north
Longitude
84.9938° or 84° 59′ 38″ east
Population
45,300
Elevation
124 metres (407 feet)
Open location code
7MP6MXWV+GG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4573041355
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1275389
Wiki­data ID
Q176767
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Welsh—“Bodh Gaya” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Bodh Gaja”
  • Albanian: “Bodh Gaya”
  • Arabic: “بود جايا”
  • Asturian: “Bodh Gaya”
  • Basque: “Bodh Gaya”
  • Bengali: “বুদ্ধ গয়া”
  • Bhojpuri: “बोधगया”
  • Bishnupriya: “বোধ গয়া”
  • Burmese: “ဗုဒ္ဓဂါယာ”
  • Cebuano: “Bodh Gaya”
  • Chinese: “Bodhgaya”
  • Chinese: “菩提伽耶”
  • Czech: “Bódhgaja”
  • Dutch: “Bodhgaya”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بود جايا”
  • Esperanto: “Bodgajo”
  • Estonian: “Bodhgaya”
  • Finnish: “Bodhgaya”
  • French: “Bodhgaya”
  • French: “Bodhgayâ”
  • German: “Bodhgaya”
  • German: “Bodhgayā”
  • Gujarati: “બોધ ગયા”
  • Hebrew: “בוד גאיה”
  • Hindi: “बोधगया”
  • Hungarian: “Bodh-Gaja”
  • Indonesian: “Bodh Gaya”
  • Italian: “Bodh Gaya”
  • Japanese: “ブッダガヤ”
  • Kannada: “ಬೋಧ್ ಗಯಾ”
  • Kashmiri: “بودھ گیا”
  • Kazakh: “Бодх-Гая”
  • Korean: “부다가야”
  • Lithuanian: “Bodhgaja”
  • Maithili: “बोधगया”
  • Malagasy: “Bodh Gaya”
  • Malay: “Bodh Gaya”
  • Malayalam: “ബോധ് ഗയ”
  • Marathi: “बोधगया”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bodhgaya”
  • Mon: “ဗုဒ္ဓဂါယာ”
  • Mongolian: “Бодьгаяа”
  • Nepali: “बोधगया”
  • Newari: “बोद्ध गया”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bodh Gaya”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bodh Gaya”
  • Norwegian: “Bodh Gaya”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bodh Gaya”
  • Oriya: “ବୁଦ୍ଧଗୟା”
  • Oriya: “ବୋଧ ଗୟା”
  • Pampanga: “Bodh Gaya”
  • Pampanga: “Bodhgayā”
  • Persian: “بوده گایا”
  • Polish: “Bodh Gaja”
  • Portuguese: “Bodh Gaya”
  • Russian: “Бодх-Гая”
  • Scots: “Bodh Gaya”
  • Sinhala: “බුද්ධගයා”
  • Slovak: “Bódhgaja”
  • Slovenian: “Bodgaja”
  • Spanish: “Bodh Gaya”
  • Swedish: “Bodh Gaya”
  • Tagalog: “Bodh Gaya”
  • Tamil: “புத்த காயா”
  • Tamil: “புத்தகயா”
  • Tamil: “புத்தகயை”
  • Telugu: “బోధ్ గయ”
  • Thai: “พุทธคยา”
  • Tibetan: “བྱང་ཆུབ་སྙིང་པོ་”
  • Turkish: “Bodh Gaya”
  • Ukrainian: “Бодг-Гая”
  • Urdu: “بودھ گیا”
  • Vietnamese: “Bodh Gaya”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bodh Gaya”
  • Welsh: “Bodh Gaya”
  • “बोधगया”

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