Vulture Peak (Gridhrakuta), Rajgir
Bihar, India · 1950
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25.00350°N, 85.42170°E
Key Facts
- ◆ Rajagriha (Rajgir) was the capital of the kingdom of Magadha in the Buddha's time.
- ◆ The Bamboo Grove (Veluvana) below was the Buddha's first monastery, gifted by King Bimbisara.
- ◆ The Vulture Peak (Gridhrakuta) is where the Buddha taught the White Lotus Sutra and other Mahayana discourses.
- ◆ Sangharakshita and Bhikkhu Kashyap climbed the ancient paved road with cyclopean stonework.
- ◆ They stayed at the Japanese Buddhist Temple (Nichiren sect) in Rajgir.
- ◆ Sangharakshita prayed on the peak that in every land, men might hear the Voice of the Buddha.
“Here on the wind-swept heights of the Vulture Peak — at the summit, as it were, of mundane existence — he had revealed to the most receptive of his disciples the transcendental splendours of the White Lotus Sūtra.”
— The Rainbow Road
“I prayed that not only in this land, the Land of the Great Disciples, but in every land, men might hearken to the Voice of the Buddha, as it sounded from the unseen heights of the spiritual Vulture Peak.”
— The Rainbow Road
Source: The Rainbow Road
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