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BUDDH GAYA: BUDDHA'S HOLIEST PLACE
| Over five hundred years before the birth of Christ there came into this world the "Light of Asia," Guatama Buddha, to whose name and memory a thousand wondrous shrines were to be raised. This photograph was taken on one of the four terraces of the vast pagoda at Buddh Gaya, Bengal near where is the sacred Bo tree under which the holy one attained Nirvana and his desire |