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Bihar
Bakraur is a village a little east of Bodh Gaya, directly across the Phalgu River from the town where the Buddha is said to have reached enlightenment.
Bodh Gaya is the most sacred site in Buddhism — the place where Prince Siddhartha attained enlightenment under the Bodhi Tree to become the Buddha.
Budhi Mai is a village in Vaishali district, on the Lalganj road at Haruli, and the reason to stop is the temple rather than the village around it.
Champapuri is a neighbourhood of Bhagalpur standing on the site of ancient Champa, capital of the Anga Mahajanapada and the main centre of the Anga cultural…
Sixty-one feet of sandstone and red granite, seated in meditation on a lotus in the open air at the end of Temple Street, with the Buddha's ten principal…
Jivaka, royal physician to king Bimbisara, owned a mango orchard below Gijjhakuta hill outside Rajgir, and gave it to the Buddha's sangha along with the…
Kastaharni Ghat is the bathing ghat on the Ganges at the eastern edge of Munger, and it carries the double life most working ghats do.
Buddhists have been coming to this spot for over two thousand years.
Mandar Parvat rises about 700 ft over Bounsi in Banka district, roughly 45 km south of Bhagalpur on the state highway that carries on to Dumka.
Mangala Gauri Temple in Gaya, Bihar is one of the Shakti Peethas, the sacred shrines of the Divine Mother in the Shakta tradition of Hinduism.
A family temple, in the literal sense: Mitthu Mistri Thakur established it at Chunabhatti in Darbhanga district in March 1949, it carries his name, and his…
You will be told this is the oldest functioning Hindu temple in the world, dated to 108 CE by the ASI and the state religious trust board.
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…
One object justifies the detour: a Panchamukhi Shivling, five-faced, a form found in very few other temples.
Patneshwari (Maa Patan Devi) in Patna, Bihar is one of the Shakti Peethas, the sacred shrines of the Divine Mother in the Shakta tradition of Hinduism.
Rajgir, set in a valley ringed by hills, was an ancient capital and a major site in both Buddhism and Jainism.
In Hajipur, at Rambhadra near Helabazar, the object of worship is a pair of footprints: local tradition holds that Rama stopped here on his way to Janakpur…
Gaya's Shraddha rites turn on this temple, which means most people around you are performing last rites for their dead rather than sightseeing.
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