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BY MIROJ SHAKYA |
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I woke up early in the morning today. Every body prepared themselves to visit rajgirha which we missed out yesterday. But today we made it. We approached there but the rope way was not opened to public yet. We insisted on walking up till Santi Stupa. As we moved along, we saw surrounding scene exquisitely beautiful with lots of greeneries. But I was little tried too. I could not go further to catch up with my friends' speed.
Peace Pagoda at Rajgir
At last we were on the top of the hill where we noticed a big Santi stupa built by Fuji Guruju from Japan and after spending some time there, we made our minds to visit gridhakuta Parvat. But a few people were able to visit the Gridhakuta Parvat where Buddha had turned the second Dharma wheel. This place was very important for the Mahayana believer.
Gridhakuta Parvat
I felt I was very lucky to visit this place where Buddha gave the main Teaching about sunyata in Pragyaparmita Sutra. We came back walking and got on the Bus. Returned to the Chinese Vihara for lunch. Thereafter we left that place for the next spot Patna . We reached Patna at 3.30pm. We first visited the Patna museum. In this mesuem I found some Ghandara arts which I had seen in the book only. Some typical cultural things were also there. We spent nearly one hrs there. After that we again headed towards the burmese Vihara which happened to be our next halting place. We had to search for it and eventually found it . After placing our luggage in the big hall, we were out to the Patna's Bazaar. We hired three riskhas and saw the Patna's radiance in the artificial light. I was afraid, Ironically, I found Patna little dirty too. The Gandi Nagar (road) was in some ways similar to the Kathmandu's tudikhel. I saw medical college on the way and one big departmental store. The journey took almost one hrs and we were all back in the vihara. After dinner every body were deep asleep.
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