Bodh Gaya

Maha Bodhi Temple, Bodh Gaya

Bodh Gaya, India · 1949–1956

The site of the Buddha's Enlightenment — Sangharakshita first visited in 1949 and wrote that Bodh Gaya had 'made me its own'; he returned on the 1956 Buddha Jayanti pilgrimage and raised the issue of Buddhist access to the vajrasana with the President of India.