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Karma Tibetan Temple

Bodh Gaya, Bihar.

This Kadgyu Karma Tibetan Temple is a beautiful Tibetan Temple situated just beside the Daijokyo Japanese Temple and just west of Indosan Nipponji. This temple was opened some fifteen years ago.

The Temple wall is finely depicted with the paintings of the event of the Buddha’s life. These paintings preach unique mixed view in the sense that the theme is Indian, the style is Tibetan and the painter has given western influence through their brush-work.

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Buddhist Protector: Four Guardian Kings.
Vaishravana (North), Dhritarashtra (East), Virudhaka (South), Virupaksha (West).

The Direction Guardians, or Four Guardian Kings, or the Four Heavenly Kings, reside on the innermost ring of islands around the four sided mythical Mount Sumeru, the center of the idealized Buddhist and Hindu worlds. Vaishravana (North), Dhritarashtra (East), Virudhaka (South), Virupaksha (West). These four figures represent the first Indian gods incorporated into the Buddhist narrative.

The Four Guardian Kings came before Shakyamuni Buddha just after the Buddha achieved enlightenment under the bodhi tree. The four offered, each individually, a black bowl made of sapphire or lapis lazuli to the Buddha. The Buddha accepted the offer and the four bowls miraculously became one bowl. This is the black bowl that is typically seen in the lap of Shakyamuni in painting and sculpture.

The Four Guardian Kings are typically found with the group of Shakyamuni & Sixteen Arhats in painting and sculpture. They are commonly found as mural paintings at the entrance way of a Buddhist temple. Although primarily associated with the idea of Hinayana Buddhism, the Four Kings are found in Vajrayana Buddhism as secondary figures, attendant deities and minor figures in the outer rings of mandalas. They are generally located at the four doors to the celestial; palace in the middle of the circular mandala.
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Tibetian Temple, Bodh Gaya..click here