Please look at the good friends of the past, how many are beautiful and strong,
The rolling hour crushed his grapes into a pulp,
They only got one drink, or two,
The one who has been buried for the first time.
The flowers were filled with their halls,
We are no longer here to rejoice,
We're going to go to sleep like this again—"
Who will our corpses make a bed for?
—— Translated by Guo Moruo
1. Ashoka's stone pillar
The motif of the Indian coat of arms is taken from the columnar decoration of the Ashoka Stone Pillar erected by The Monarch Of the Peacock Dynasty, Ashoka, at Luye Garden. At the top of this pillar are carved four male lions with their backs facing backwards, each with a Falun at his feet, and an animal between the four Faluns, namely elephants, horses, cattle, and lions. Below is written the Sanskrit motto "Only truth will triumph." The four lions facing each other symbolize strength, courage, pride and confidence. At the bottom of the Falun is a blooming lotus flower, which shows the source of life and inspiration.
2. Bodh Gaya, also known as Bodhi Dojo, Mahabharata (Brahma Mahā -bodhi), where Shakyamuni Buddha attained enlightenment.
Bodh Gaya (Bodh Gaya) is located about 150 km south of the indian city of Patna, Bodhgayā, seven kilometres south of the city of Gaya in southern Bihar, India, facing the Nilianchan River (Van Nairañjanā, now the Fargu River), a tributary of the Ganges, which was originally the settlement of The Uloupino (Van Uruvelā) south of the ancient Indian city of Gaya in the Magadha kingdom.
After six years of asceticism, the Buddha traveled to this place, sat down on the Vajrayogini seat under the Bipala tree, realized the twelve causes and conditions, the Four Noble Truths, and so on, and attained enlightenment, so the Bipa luo tree is also called the Bodhi tree, that is, the meaning of 'enlightenment tree'. Gaya City was owned by brahmins in the Middle Ages, and in order to distinguish it from the Brahmin Gaya City, the holy place of Buddha's enlightenment is specially called Buddha Gaya, and the place where the Buddha was born (Lumbini Garden), the place where the First Turning Wheel of Dharma (Luye Garden), and the place of Nirvana (the double forest of the city of Shūrasa) are called the four holy relics of the Buddha. After the Buddha's death, successive generations have raised pagodas here to make offerings and build jingsha garan, although they have been destroyed many times, but there are still many relics.
It has become a sacred place in the hearts of Buddhists and one of the four holy places of Buddhism. The ancient Chinese monks Faxian and Xuanzang successively recorded the history of Bodh Gaya. The Mahabodhi Temple in Bodh Gaya was listed as a World Heritage Site in 2002.
3. Sanchi Caves (2nd century BC – 1st century AD)
The main manifestation of the Hindu temple of Sangi Hindu in India is Stupa. Parek Nuggins said that all Indian temples are temple hills, and the classical structure of the Buddhist tradition is a blockage, but it is not a building at all, but is actually a huge earthen hill. The slope was used to bury the bones of Buddhas or saints, and it often employed hemispherical buildings symbolizing the heavens. Mario Busali points out that the slope has multiple symbolic meanings, such as: a center of mysterious power (axis of the world): a cosmic form viewed from the outside; as a tomb, a crown tomb or a sacred bone; and as a monument to the Buddha's mission and holy relics. It was also built on newly occupied land as a sacrifice and a symbol of loyalty to the land. It replaces the meaning of the altar and is seen as the embodiment of the Buddha whose mana pervades the universe. According to the research of some domestic scholars, the slope blocking has the meaning of "the tree of the universe", "the cave of the gods", "the pillar of the universe" and "the beginning of the Taiqiu". One of the most famous slopes is the Sanchi slope, which was built in 250 BC.
4. Ajanta Caves: Cultural Sites - 1983
2nd century BC - 7th century AD
Ancient Indian Buddhist art site. Located in the territory of Maharastra, with the Ventiye Mountains on its back, facing the Govara River. It was chiseled in the 2nd century BC and continued until the middle of the 7th century. There are 30 caves (including one unfinished cave). It is 550 meters long from east to west, and all of them are excavated on cliff faces ranging from 10 to 30 meters above the ground. With the exception of Cave 5 (i.e., Caves 9, 10, 19, 26, and 29), which are the Zhiti Caves for worship, the rest are monks' houses.
The Chinese monk Xuanzang made a pilgrimage to Ajanta in the early 7th century. With the decline of Buddhism, the courtyard was neglected and gradually forgotten, becoming a fox rabbit cave. It was not until the early 19th century that it was rediscovered and attracted the attention of the world.