Journey Through
Words & Wisdom

Bodhgaya is the most sacred place in Buddhism — the very spot where Siddhartha Gautama sat beneath a fig tree and became the Buddha. To sit beneath the descendant of that tree today is to feel something beyond words.

The four principal sites of Buddhist pilgrimage — Bodhgaya, Sarnath, Kushinagar, and Lumbini — form a circuit through eastern India and Nepal that traces the key moments of the Buddha's life and ministry.