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...under two trees, he died. Buddhism withered in India in the Middle Ages; the great temples and monasteries were destroyed by invaders and the pilgrims stopped coming. In the 19th century, pilgrims from Burma and Sri Lanka rediscovered the trail, renovated and rebuilt ruined monasteries and temples, and the Buddhist pilgrimage circuit slowly revived...
...temple at Bodh Gaya estimate that 15,000 foreigners come each year to see the holy tree. Peak season is from November to March, when the temperature drops, but there are pilgrims year round. "It's very peaceful here. It's easy to meditate," says Sato Yuji, 41, a Buddhist from Japan who has visited Bodh Gaya regularly for the past decade...
Most pilgrims are from East Asia, but Americans and Europeans also visit. "You can feel thousands of years of prayers vibrating in the air," says Manu Hari, a Swiss-born convert to Buddhism who is meditating near the temple. With every major Buddhist community from Sri Lanka to Japan having constructed a monastery in the city, Bodh Gaya has virtually turned into a United Nations of Buddhism; at night, as Tibetan monks cycle around to buy groceries, the streets resound with gongs being struck from inside the various monasteries...
...times as likely to be Buddhist...
...clearly and publicly recognize that Tibet is an inseparable part of China and [that] Taiwan is also an inseparable part of China." LIU JIANCHAO, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman, reaffirming the conditions necessary for the Dalai Lama's return to Tibet from exile, speaking on the day before the Buddhist spiritual leader's 70th birthday...