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Bihar
These are the oldest surviving rock-cut caves in India, 24 km north of Gaya in Jehanabad district, cut under the Mauryas for ascetics of the Ajivika sect.
Bodh Gaya is the most sacred site in Buddhism — the place where Prince Siddhartha attained enlightenment under the Bodhi Tree to become the Buddha.
Everything worth knowing here came out of the ground rather than standing on it.
Buxar Fort is a largely ruined historic fortification on the banks of the River Ganga in Buxar, Bihar, near the Uttar Pradesh border.
Whoever cut this doorway in the 3rd century BC was reproducing in stone a hut built of wood and thatch.
Munger's fort sits on a rocky hillock above the south bank of the Ganges and carries almost everything the town has been: the tomb of Pir Shah Nufa, who died…
Nalanda was the greatest university of the ancient world, a vast Buddhist monastic centre of learning that flourished for 700 years and drew scholars from…
Rajgir, set in a valley ringed by hills, was an ancient capital and a major site in both Buddhism and Jainism.
Rohtasgarh, on a spur of the Kaimur plateau above the Son valley, is one of India's mightiest and least-visited forts — its walls run for miles around a…
There is almost nothing to look at when you get up there, and it hardly matters.
One chamber hewn into a single hemispherical block of granite, 20 km southwest of Rajgir and 10 km southwest of Hisua.
Two Jain caves cut into the base of the Vaibhar Hills at Rajgir, easy to reach and quickly seen.
Twenty minutes on foot from Bodh Gaya, across the Phalgu, stands the mound where the milkmaid Sujata is said to have given the Buddha milk and rice under a…
The tomb was finished on 16 August 1545, about three months after the man who commissioned it for himself had died.
Few sites carry this much weight in two religions at once. The Buddha gave his last sermon at Vaishali before his mahaparinirvana, and the Relic Stupa here is…
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