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Bodhgaya

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Gabriel Mckee

Contributors: Jeffrey Becker

Last modified Jan 30, 2018 03:21 PM — History

tags: UWHS

A town in India traditionally identified as the place in which Gautama Buddha attained enlightenment. One of the four main Buddhist pilgrimage sites, it is home to the Mahabodhi Temple, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/963537714

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
24.6991876409, 84.987942031

Locations:

OSM location of Bodhgaya (540 BC - Present)

Names:

Geographic Names:
- बोधगया (Buddh Gaya: Hindi, modern)

Bodhgaya makes connections with:

None

Bodhgaya receives connections from:

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

Place type:
settlement

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Gabriel Mckee, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Bodhgaya: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/963537714> [accessed: 02 August 2021]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/963537714 |title=Places: 963537714 (Bodhgaya) |author=Mckee, G. |accessdate=August 2, 2021 6:17 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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