11 Facts About Mahabodhi Temple

Mahabodhi Temple or the Mahabodhi Mahavihara, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is an ancient, but rebuilt and restored Buddhist temple in Bodh Gaya, Bihar, India, marking the location where the Buddha is said to have attained enlightenment.

Mahabodhi Temple complex includes two large straight-sided shikhara towers, the largest over 55 metres high.

Several specific places at the current Mahabodhi Temple relate to the traditions surrounding these seven weeks:.

The Mahabodhi Temple adapted the Gandharan design of a succession of steps with niches containing Buddha images, alternating with Greco-Roman pillars, and top by a stupa, as seen in the stupas of Jaulian.

Mahabodhi Temple was restored by the British and India post independence.

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The last abbot of the Mahabodhi temple was Sariputra, who left India and travelled to Nepal in the 15th century.

Mahabodhi Temple is constructed of brick and is one of the oldest brick structures to have survived in eastern India.

Mahabodhi Temple is surrounded on all four sides by stone railings, about two metres high.

In 2013, the Bihar government amended the Bodh Gaya Mahabodhi Temple Act of 1949, allowing for a non-Hindu to head the temple committee.

Pursuant to the Bodh Gaya Mahabodhi Temple Act of 1949, such responsibilities are shared with the Bodhgaya Mahabodhi Temple Management Committee, and an advisory board.

Mahabodhi Temple is one of the most replicated Buddhist structures, both as temples and miniature replicas.