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India’s largest Buddha statue is drawing global tourists. Here’s why

The Great Buddha Statue at Bodh Gaya.
Updated on Mar 16, 2025 03:45 PM IST

Lankan Prez visits Bihar’s Mahabodhi Temple

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake meet at Hyderabad House in New Delhi on Monday. (Narendra Modi - X)
Updated on Dec 17, 2024 06:43 PM IST

Bihar bets on community biogas plants to check carbon emission

The biogas plant at Bataspur village in Gaya. (HT)
Published on Jul 29, 2024 10:15 PM IST

HistoriCity | Gaya: Corridors of religion, power, and history

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Buddhist monks offer prayers at Mahabodhi temple in Bodh Gaya. (HT file)
Updated on Jul 27, 2024 04:00 PM IST

Bodh Gaya struggles to attract tourists despite its spiritual significance

Bodh Gaya struggles to attract as many tourists as other holy places despite its significance for Buddhists worldwide.
Published on Apr 08, 2024 02:23 PM IST

PM inaugurates 3 IIMs, lays foundation for permanent campuses of 3 IITs

The prime minister dedicated, inaugurated and laid the foundation stone of the campuses and buildings at a public function at the Maulana Azad Stadium in Jammu.
Published on Feb 21, 2024 02:11 PM IST

Tejashwi Yadav meets Dalai Lama in Bodh Gaya

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Published on Jan 04, 2024 03:39 PM IST

Bodh Gaya: Cop dies of gunshot wounds as carbine goes off

At Bodhgaya on Friday, shortly after a police constable was found lying in a pool of blood, with gunshot injuries on head. (HT photo)
Updated on Aug 25, 2023 10:08 PM IST

Buddhist monk found dead near temple in Bihar’s Bodh Gaya

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Updated on Aug 10, 2023 02:29 PM IST

Bihar govt constitutes advisory board of Bodh Gaya temple

The complex is monitored and managed by the Bodh Gaya Temple Management Committee (BTMC). (HT Photo)
Published on Jul 30, 2023 05:00 PM IST

On camera: Raging fire engulfs over 100 shops at vegetable market in Bihar

Screengrab of video showing the intensity of fire in which nearly 100 shops were burnt down in Bihar's Gaya on Tuesday.
Published on Apr 11, 2023 07:09 PM IST

Vietnam ambassador hints increase in tourist footfall soon at India's Bodh Gaya

Bodh Gaya: Buddhist monks perform rituals during the robe offering ceremony on the occasion of Kartik Purnima at Wat Thai Temple, in Bodh Gaya 
Updated on Nov 21, 2021 10:36 AM IST

Bodh Gaya in Bihar to get face lift as round-the-year tourist destination

Union tourism ministry plans to get new infrastructure and facilities in Bodh Gaya, Bihar to make it a round-the-year tourist destination.
Published on Oct 07, 2021 04:16 PM IST

Bodh Gaya Tourism institute to get its own building at cost of 50 crores

Foreign tourists from Buddhist countries throng Bodh Gaya.
Published on Mar 11, 2021 09:37 AM IST

Craze for learning Chinese among Bihar tourist guides falls sharply

The attraction of the Chinese language has lessened among tourist guides in Bodh Gaya due to strained India-China ties and the uncertainty about Chinese tourists' inflow in the future.
Published on Feb 15, 2021 09:30 AM IST

Bodh Gaya tourism in deep coma sans international flights and domestic visitors

Resident monks of Bodh Gaya temple had even offered special prayers to mitigate the spread of coronavirus last year.
Published on Feb 09, 2021 09:28 AM IST

Bihar Election 2020: Results for Sherghati, Barachatti, Bodh Gaya, Gaya Town, Belaganj, Wazirganj seats

A voter being screened before being allowed to vote, outside a polling station during Bihar assembly elections.
Updated on Nov 11, 2020 02:54 PM IST

Mahabodhi temple’s legendary peepal tree gets ‘natural advantage’ amid Covid-19 lockdown

File photo: Tibetan spiritual leader Ogyen Trinley Dorje, the 17th Karmapa, offers prayers at the Mahabodhi temple in Bodhgaya.
Updated on Sep 19, 2020 06:58 PM IST

Bodh Gaya’s Mahabodhi temple to reopen from September 21 with restrictions

Lord Buddha is said to have found enlightenment while sitting under a Peepal tree at the Mahabodhi temple complex in Bodh Gaya.
Updated on Sep 19, 2020 02:41 PM IST

Worried about NRC, Buddhists in Bodh Gaya fear ‘difficult days’ ahead

Monks at Bodh Gaya.
Updated on Dec 14, 2019 01:56 PM IST

13 underprivileged kids from Bodh Gaya headed for France for classes

Children at the residential school set up by a French women.
Updated on Oct 23, 2019 08:35 PM IST

Security beefed up for Lord Buddha’s birth anniversary in Bodh Gaya

Bodh Gaya has turned into a fortress with heavy security deployed at the three-day mega celebration to mark the 2563rd birth anniversary of Lord Buddha
Updated on May 18, 2019 02:57 AM IST

NIA files supplementary chargesheet against 5 people in Bodh Gaya blasts case

NIA headquarters at CGO Complex in New Delhi.
Updated on Jan 29, 2019 11:05 AM IST

The Dalai Lama initiates a special teaching session at Bodh Gaya

Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama
Published on Dec 29, 2018 02:15 PM IST

Muzaffarpur shelter home horror, blast at Bodh Gaya: Crimes that rocked Bihar government in 2018

21 AK-47 assault rifles smuggled into Munger, Bihar
Updated on Dec 29, 2018 02:13 PM IST

‘My body is Tibetan but spiritually I’m an Indian,’ says the Dalai Lama

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama during the an interview with HT at Mahabodhi Temple campus in Bodh Gaya, Bihar, India, on Sunday, December 23, 2018.
Updated on Dec 25, 2018 08:10 AM IST

Elaborate security arrangements ahead of the Dalai Lama’s Bodh Gaya visit

The Tibetan spiritual leader arrives here on December 16 for a spiritual sojourn
Updated on Dec 13, 2018 11:50 AM IST

Chinese Buddhists walk to Bodh Gaya from Nepal

The chanting has been organised by the International Buddhist Council and All India Bhikhu Sangh and was held at Kalchakra Maidan but also under the Mahabodhi tree, where Buddha is said to have attained enlightenment.
Published on Dec 04, 2018 11:51 PM IST