Buddhist Documentaries

Bodhi Gaya, with its MahaBodhi Temple and the stone slab called Vajra Asana, marking the place under the Bodhi tree where the Buddha attained Enlightenment, is the most sacred of all Buddhist sites. »

The famous Vulture's Peak, Griddhakuta, also known as Gṛidhrakūṭa (in Sanskrit) and Gijjhakūṭa (in Pāli), was one of the Buddha's favorite meditation places. »

Jetavana, or Jeta's Forest, located in Shravasti, Uttar Pradesh, India, is the place where the Buddha spent the longest time after attaining Enlightenment. »

The ancient Kusinārā, currently Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh, India, is one of the four main pilgrimage sites for Buddhists. It is the place where, in about 543 B.C.E., Siddhartha Gautama, The Buddha, attained Parinirvana, leaving forever Samsara, the cycle of death and rebirth. »

Sapta Parni, where the First Buddhist Council was held, is today a place of pilgrimage for Buddhists from all over the world. »

The famous Nālandā University, or Nālandā Maha Vihara, as it was known at the time, was the first international residential university in the world. Founded in about 427 CE, and preceding by more than six centuries the oldest universities in the West like Oxford, Bologna or Cambridge, in its hayday the Nalanda University had about 2,000 teachers and 10,000 students; its campus covered an area of more than 14 hectares, or 34 acres. »