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    As is the tradition in many Buddhist lineages, monastics are also seen throughout the Bodhi Temple complex prostrating toward the spot of the Buddha's enlightenment, offering themselves completely to the model the Buddha provides.: by ivan_miral, Views[955]
         		 One by one, pilgrims touch the rail and gaze at the spot where the Buddha achieved enlightenment, filled with apparent love and admiration.: by ivan_miral, Views[514]
         		 In addition to many lay pilgrims, the Bodhi Temple at Bodhgaya attracts Buddhist monastics from every nation and every tradition. Here, a Japanese Zen nun prays while Southeast Asian Therevadan monks look on.: by ivan_miral, Views[1601]
         		 Ive and his parents celebrate completing the climb to the Dungeshwari caves outside Bodhgaya, where the Buddha is said to have explored extreme ascetcism before discovering his Middle Way between earthly renunciation and earthly indulgence.: by ivan_miral, Views[648]
         		 Indian man sweeping in front of a statue of Maitreya, an enlightened man (Buddha) expected to come in the future. The statue is at the Root Wisdom Institute -- a beautiful retreat center built by Gelukpas (a lineage of Tibetan Buddhism) in Bodhgaya.: by ivan_miral, Views[1065]
     
    A monk prepares the shrine at Bodhgaya's Thai Temple for evening services.: by ivan_miral, Views[875]
         		 Ive shares a moment with the auto-rickshaw driver set to take his parents back to the Root Wisdom Institute, where we stayed all but our first night in Bodhgaya.: by ivan_miral, Views[554]
         		 Maybe searching for their enlightenment, but at least enjoying the present moment, Ive's parents sit below a Bodhi tree near Bodhgaya's Japanese Temple.: by ivan_miral, Views[456]
         		 Both Sarnath and Bodhgaya are home to temples from nearly every nation in the world with a sizable Buddhist population. Here, the Thai Temple in Bodhgaya demonstrates the effort given by each nation to having beautiful temples at these Buddhist holy sites - each Nation's temple looks distinct, with its own unique beautiful building design and characteristics.: by ivan_miral, Views[1322]
         		 A decorated slab at the Bodhi Temple in Bodhgaya marks the spot where the Buddha sat and realized the nature of reality.: by ivan_miral, Views[288]
     
    Legend has it that the original Bodhi tree at Bodhgaya was burned by the wife of the Indian emperor Ashoka who was jealous of his love of the Buddha. The tree now there was grown from a Sri Lanken Bodhi tree that was grown from the original.: by ivan_miral, Views[647]
         		 Leaves of the Bodhi tree at Bodhgaya seem as illuminated as the Buddha's mind/heart once was at this same spot.: by ivan_miral, Views[535]
         		 Although the site sat in ruined disrepair not long ago, the Bodhi Temple that marks the spot in Bodhgaya where the Buddha achieved enlightenment has now been returned to incredible glory.: by ivan_miral, Views[281]
         		 Ive's parents joined up with us in Varanasi and journeyed with us to Bodhgaya -- here, beating a walk in the sweltering heat in a bicycle rickshaw.: by ivan_miral, Views[293]
         		 A monk at the Bhutanese Temple in Bodhgaya chants the evening puja (offering) ceremony. We stayed at the attached Bhutanese monastery for our first night in Bodhgaya.: by ivan_miral, Views[533]
     
    Pilrgims from the small remaining Buddhist community of India gather for blessings from the monk at the Japanese Zen Temple in Sarnath.: by ivan_miral, Views[393]
         		 Two Buddhas, two monks. Sarnath.: by ivan_miral, Views[395]
         		 This golden Buddha in teaching pose is housed at the Mahabodhi Temple in Sarnath. It is a replica of an ancient stone version displayed at a nearby museum.: by ivan_miral, Views[550]
         		 Indian man, Indian life.: by ivan_miral, Views[425]
         		 The ruins of a temple built in Sarnath by Ashoka, the great Buddhist emperor of India, where the Dhamekh stupa in the background marks the spot the Buddha offered his first Dharma teaching.: by ivan_miral, Views[934]
     
    ...and calling it bathing doesn't quite capture the sincerity and deep meaning of this daily ritual to those we watched.: by ivan_miral, Views[1222]
         		 One bathing ghat after another lines the Varanasi shoreline. Here a man prepares his boat -- maybe to bring local people to a ghat.: by ivan_miral, Views[1341]
         		 So many people bathing!!: by ivan_miral, Views[1391]
         		 We took a boat out and soaked in the flavor and color of the sunrise rituals. : by ivan_miral, Views[300]
         		 Two men offering early morning prayers at the banks of the Holy Ganga in Varanasi.: by ivan_miral, Views[421]
     
    Varanasi is most famous for its bathing ghats (platforms leading to the river). Each morning, hundreds of Hindus come to pray, make offerings, and bathe in the sacred purifying waters.: by ivan_miral, Views[453]
         		 Distinct to the aarti in Varanasi, lines of men make offerings with fire lamps in synchrony.: by ivan_miral, Views[286]
         		 Thousands of pilgrims from all over India come to Varanasi, gathering here for the evening aarti (offerings of fire) ceremony.: by ivan_miral, Views[412]
         		 Sadhus (wandering Hindu renunciates) seem to be everywhere one turns in Varanasi.: by ivan_miral, Views[662]
         		 Varanasi is the holiest city for Hindus in India, sitting on the banks of the sacred Ganges River and offering moksha (liberation) to anyone who dies there.: by ivan_miral, Views[351]
     
    On Indian overnight trains, there's 1st class...there's 2nd class Sleeper (with fold-out beds)...and then there's plain ol' 2nd class - pictured here! : by ivan_miral, Views[1560]
         		 Women shopping for sari fabric from the (always male!) vendors at the bazaar in Agra.: by ivan_miral, Views[1041]
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