Bodh Gaya is the single most sacred site of Buddhism. It was in the forest here that Prince Siddhartha sat under a tree and achieved enlightenment two and a half millennia ago. From here he went out as the Buddha to teach his Eightfold Path to the masses. The tree was soon enshrined within a stone fence and the marking of this holy spot later grew to include a stupa which was overbuilt by larger and larger stupas a temple and other markers (such as stone lotuses) noting just about everyplace the Enlightened One had so much as placed his foot during the period of his epiphany.
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