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February 4, 2010 | Bodh Gaya displays Buddha's ashes | Bodh Gaya: Buddhist monks from across the country converged at Bodh Gaya to participate in a religious procession on Wednesday. Decked up elephants, horses and camels and palanquins accompanied the monks who took out the ashes of Buddha and two of his prominent disciples for public display. Devout
Buddhists and even others considered the viewing of the urn containing the ashes
of Lord Buddha as divine blessing. "We have people from India, Thailand, Sri
Lanka,
Vietnam, Sikkim and Nepal with a desire to see the ashes of the Lord Buddha once
in their lifetime. They feel happy and content after coming here," said P. Sivli
Thero, a senior monk, Mahabodhi Society of India, an apex body of Buddhist
shrines.
Lord Buddha attained enlightenment while doing penance under a Bodhi tree (Tree
of Enlightenment) near a temple in Bodh Gaya. Lord Buddha, founder of Buddhism
was born a prince at Lumbini in Nepal over 2,600 years ago.
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