2007年11月1日 星期四

Landscape in Bihar

As like Punjab, Bihar is also an agriculture state of India. But it's very obvious that lands in Bihar are not as fertile as in Punjab


The Mahabodhi Temple is located beside the Bodhi tree which the Buddha finished his enlightment. After several times of destroy and restoration, there remains a few old components in it's architecture


The Mahabodhi Temple is surrounded by many small stupas. Some of them are looked quite ancient


Bodhgaya is kind of the United Nation of Buddhist world. All the major Buddhist nations in the world have their own temple in Bodhgaya. The Japanese temple have a style of simple and solemn


The Bhutanese temple is similar to Tibetan temples in architecture. It's major characteristic is in the Bhutanese styled roof and the decoration on windows


Benefit from it's vivid appeance, the Thai temple is the most conspicuous foreign temple in Bodhgaya


For the dragons on eaves, the elegant stone sculptures on windows and the incense burner in front of the temple, all of these let Vietnam temple looked quite similar to Daoist temples in Taiwan


The Great Stupa of Nalanda university - It's a pity that there only remains some ruins in this ancient university. What you can do is just look at these ruins and sigh for the destory of Xuan Zang's alma mater


Temple No. 12 of Nalanda university and it's stone columns - The architectures in Nalanda university are majorly composed by bricks. There remains very few well preserved stone columns


A stone sculpture in Temple No. 2 of Nalanda university - There remains some stone sculptures that have various kinds of subjects. Many of them seemed not related to Buddhism


Monastery No. 6 of Nalanda university - There are many temples and monastries in Nalanda university, Monastery No. 6 is a monastery with a typical layout. There is always a square with a well in it which surrounded by small rooms

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