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Mahabodhi Temple

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Gabriel Mckee

Contributors: Jeffrey Becker

Last modified Sep 11, 2021 11:02 PM — History

tags: UWHS

One of the four main Buddhist pilgrimage sites, identified as the place where Gautama Buddha attained Enlightenment. The first temple on the site was built by Emperor Asoka in the third century B.C., and the present temple dates from the fifth or sixth centuries. It is one of the earliest Buddhist temples built entirely in brick, still standing in India, from the late Gupta period. The site was largely abandoned from the twelfth-eighteenth centuries. It was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2002.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/713767971

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
24.6954596317, 84.9914415295

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Mahabodhi Temple Complex (AD 250 - Present) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Mahabodhi Temple (English, modern)

Mahabodhi Temple makes connections with:

Mahabodhi Temple part of (regional) Bodhgaya (AD 250 - Present)

Mahabodhi Temple receives connections from:

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Place type:
temple

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Wikidata Q4513: Mahabodhi Temple

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Suggested citation:
Gabriel Mckee, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Mahabodhi Temple: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/713767971> [accessed: 26 April 2024]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/713767971 |title=Places: 713767971 (Mahabodhi Temple) |author=Mckee, G. |accessdate=April 26, 2024 1:04 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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