《Indian pilgrimage of Pure-land Buddhist Sep272016Oct072016part4》.docVIP

Indian pilgrimage of Pure-land Buddhist:Sep27,2012---Oct07,2012(part4) Day06(Oct02)After breakfast we leave Bodh Gaya to Grdhrakuta-parvata orGrdhrkuta.For about 4hours we arrive at Grdhrakuta-parvata.Cause the weather is boiling during the daytime and my leg has former hurt in the left knee we pay our respect at the bottom of the mountain and quit climbingThe Japanese have built a Stupa on top of the Ratnagiri hill, linked by a rope way.The Aesculus Caves,which the very place 500 Bhikkhus leading by Mahakasyapa recite,chant and proofread the Buddhism compilation around 90days after Buddhas Nirvana,locate at Vaibhava Hill opposit to Griddhakuta HillThe Pippala Cave which Mahakasyapa lived is at the bottom of Vaibhava Hill.Then we drive to Nalanda.Nālandā was an ancient center of higher learning in Bihar, India.[1] The site of Nalanda is located in the Indian state of Bihar, about 88 kilometers south east of Patna, and was a Buddhist center of learning from the fifth or sixth century CE to 1197 CE.TheTang Dynasty Chinese pilgrim Xuanzang left detailed accounts of the university in the 7th century. He described how the regularly laid-out towers, forest of pavilions, harmikas and temples seemed to soar above the mists in the sky so that from their cells the monks might witness the birth of the winds and clouds.[25] The pilgrim states: An azure pool winds around the monasteries, adorned with the full-blown cups of the blue lotus; the dazzling red flowers of the lovely kanaka hang here and there, and outside groves of mango trees offer the inhabitants their dense and protective shade.(/wiki/Nalanda)Then we go to Venuvana,which also called Kalandaka Venuvana cause Kalandaka the elder donated the place to Buddha and the first building in the history to be situated by the Buddhist.Venuvana is the predecessor of all temples in the world.We offer the flower basket to the statue of Buddha to pay our deep respectAround dusk we arrive the vaishali