my knowledge : Mahabodhi temple

The Mahabodhi Temple, is a World heritage site, is a Buddhist temple in bodh gaya marking the location where siddharth gautam, the buddha, is have attainedenlightenment. Bodh Gaya is located in gaya district is located about 96 km (60 mi) from Patna, Bihar state, India

THE BUDDHA- around 530 BC, siddharth gautam, a young prince who saw the suffering of the world and wanted to end it, reached the banks of the phalgu river, near the city of Gaya, India. There he sat in meditation under a peepul tree which later became known as the Bodhi tree.in that location, Mahabodhi Temple was built by Emperor Ashoka in around 260 BC.

MAHABODHI TREE- The Bodhi tree at Bodhgaya is directly connected to the life of the gautam Buddha,where buddha do meditating under it. The temple was build directly to the east of the Bodhi tree .
Buddhist tradition claims that when the world is destroyed at the end of a kalpa vriksh, the is the last spot to disappear, and will be the first to appear when the world emerges into existence again.. According to legend, in the case of gautam buddha, a Bodhi tree sprang up on the day he was born
construction of theTEMPLE- In 250 BC, about 200 years after the Buddha attained Enlightenment, Emperor asoka visited Bodh Gaya in order to establish a monastery and shrine on the holy site. Asoka is considered the founder of a Mahabodhi temple's,temple had its pyramidal structure . temple not have the upper terrace with the small temples in the four corners.

Mahabodhi is one of the earliest Buddhist temples built entirely in brick that is still standing in India, from the late gupta period
2013 ATTACK- On 7 July 2013, ten low-intensity bombs exploded in the temple complex, injuring 5 people. One bomb was near the statue of Buddha and another was near the Mahabodhi tree. Three unexploded bombs were also found and defused. The main temple is intact and sanitized. On 4 November 2013, the national investigation agency announced that the indian mujahidin was responsible for the bombings.
MANAGMENT OF TEMPLE- The Bihar state government is responsibility for the protection, and management, of temple according to Bodh Gaya Temple Act of 1949, such responsibilities are shared with the Bodhgaya Temple Management Committee, and an advisory board. By law, the Committee must consist of four Buddhist and four Hindu representatives. The Committee serves for a three-year term.

In June 2002, the Mahabodhi Temple became a world heritage site. All finds of religious artifacts in the area are legally protected under the Treasure Trove Act of 1878.

The temple's head monk, Bhikkhu Bodhipala, resigned in 2007 after he was charged with cutting the branches of holy bodhi tree on a regular basis and selling them to foreigners for significant amounts of money.