Tapovan Garden Project
2016-2017

It has been a great honor and privilege to be invited to offer our services in the beautification for the Tapovan Garden project through the coordination of Mrs. Wangmo Dixey and the sponsorship of her father, Venerable Tarthang Tulku. It has been a tremendous honor and great privilege to be of service to the historical Mahabodhi Mahavihara temple and to be able to make an offering of these sacred plaques for the benefit of all beings.

Sacred Gardens of the Buddha

In 2008, the Foundation began a clean up program to remove rubbish from the Southern section of the Temple compound of the Mahabodhi Mahavihara. Over 200 tractor loads of rubbish were removed, and over 1000 tractor loads of earth deposited to create a new landscape.

Prajnaparamitha Walk Set

It has been a great honor and privilege to be invited to offer our services in the beautification for the Tapovan Garden project through the coordination of Mrs. Wangmo Dixey and the sponsorship of her father, Venerable Tarthang Tulku. It has been a tremendous honor and great privilege to be of service to the historical Mahabodhi Mahavihara temple and to be able to make an offering of these sacred plaques for the benefit of all beings. We have worked on this project for more than a year and feel that by the end of February 2017 we should have all the plaques completed along with the beginning of the next phase of the work which will be the beautification of the garden by expert American land scape artists and with a completion date of pathway by May 2017.

The first step took place almost a year ago with the production of black granite plaques which have the historical the Prajnaparamita sutras in Devangari, English and Tibetan. This took months of great dedication by a team of experts in America who worked through historical texts and made into pdf files for the artists to make as final engravings in black granite for what we pray will be lasting for more than 100 years! At the same time, LBDFI-India has also engaged a world class landscape architecture firm, Greenworks Design of San Francisco, California to help with the project design.  The files for the entire landscape proposal which required much professional time to review and design will be ready for execution after the pathway is completed. We intend to bring plants back from the historical Pali Canon, or Buddhist scriptures with plaques with dedicated Buddhist sayings for all to enjoy.

We will be working in the coming years to create a beautiful word class garden for all pilgrims from around the world to enjoy. If you would like to get involved, please do inbox us at [email protected]

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South Garden at the Mahabodhi Mahavihara

In 2008, the Foundation began a clean up program to remove rubbish from the Southern section of the Temple compound of the Mahabodhi Mahavihara. Over 200 tractor loads of rubbish were removed, and over 1000 tractor loads of earth deposited to create a new landscape.
To further develop and expand facilities for tourists and pilgrims, LBDFI-India is creating Peace Gardens to surround the Great Peace Bells now installed in all the eight holy places of pilgrimage in India and Nepal.
A retaining wall was constructed, and a new South Garden Meditation Pavilion was constructed and opened in 2012.

When the Buddha passed into Nirvana, he told his disciples that there were four great places that every Buddhist should aspire to visit: Lumbini, the place of his birth, Bodhgaya, the place of his enlightenment, Sarnath, the place where he turned the wheel of the Dharma and Kushinagar, the place of his parinirvana. Another four sites were added to this list: Sankasya, the place where Buddha came down from Tavatimsa heaven following the teachings given to his mother; Shravasti, the place where Buddha left for the Parinirvana; Vaishali, where he gave so many teachings and Rajgir, where the first monastery was established.

On December 13th, 2010 the Sujata Garden of the Mahabodhi Mahavihara was officially opened. Work was completed to create an elevated terrace with steps leading down to a meditation pavilion suitable for walking meditation. The fountain was extended to surround the Vietnamese rock garden. The entire garden is open to visitors of the Temple when they walk around the Mucalinda lake to the south of the Mahavihara. The entire facility is planted with plants mentioned in the Pali canon.

For more details please go to the new Beautiful Bodhgaya website.

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