A Pilgrimage Special: Performing Dana

While in Sarnath, we visited a branch of the Mahabodhi Society, The ladies made themselves busy buying fruits and other foodstuff to be brought over for the monks there. As usual, the pilgrims were going to perform dana, a practice of generosity or charity. The Mahabodhi Society was a pleasant white building and we walk into a pleasant compound with shady trees, under which some children were studying under the tutelage of a teacher. We were brought to a hall where several young monks and a lone nun were going to have lunch...

Shopping in Sarnath...




The Mahabodhi Society in Sarnath...






Children studying...

The hall...
Performing Dana to the monks...






and the lone nun...