Bodh Gaya

Bodh Gaya, in modern Bihar, India, is the most important Buddhist pilgrimage site, traditionally identified as the place where Siddhārtha Gautama attained awakening beneath the Bodhi tree; the Mahābodhi Temple complex there is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the Sri Lankan reformer Anagārika Dharmapāla campaigned through his Maha Bodhi Society to restore the long-neglected shrine.