A brief introduction to the lifestyle of Buddhist monks while you experience the great Buddhist circuit Tour

The Buddhist monks are commonly referred to as Bhikkus, they follow a long tradition of lifestyle. Throughout their life they maintain joyfulness and peaceful lifestyle qualities of the Bhikku’s way of life.  During your Buddhist circuit tour as you visit various Buddhist sites you will find various monks living there and get a sense of their lifestyle, which has a code of conduct called Vinaya that is intended to be providing them with mindfulness and wisdom living style. Through this way of life they achieve the state of Nirvana where one is free from all the suffering of the human world.

The Vinaya provides a set of rules and some training to these monks, Vinaya also mentions some guidelines to how to co-operate with the lay people without whom it would be impossible to live the life as a Buddhist monk. The lay people goes a long way in providing support of all kinds like clothes, food etc. These Vinaya rules help monks in a way that they enforce some particular rules with which they avoid offending lay people of giving rise to any misunderstanding.

Lord Buddha

The best way to understand monk’s lives is to go on a Buddhist circuit tour, which will take to all the famous tourist sites in India a well defined manner. You will be visiting some of the historical sites like Lumbini – the birth place of Buddha, Bodh Gaya – the place where Buddha attained the state of Nirvana through mediation under a Bodhi tree, Rajgir – the place where Buddha gave his first sermon and Khushinagar – The place where Buddha passed away and attained the state of Mahaparinirvana in his death. 

The teachings of Buddha spread like wildfire after Buddha gave his first sermon at a deer park in Rajgir, after that for 45 years he traveled to various places delivering the teachings of Buddhism, what started with just a small group of people soon became into a community and later it gave rise to one of the youngest religion in the world. People were affected by it from around the world, they came in large number to do pilgrimage of the above four mentioned sites, some famous personalities in history also built stupas and monasteries, one that stand out in particular is the famous emperor Ashoka, who built the famous Ashoka Pillar at Lumbini, Ashoka monastery at Rajgir which makes up for a very famous tourist sites. Now the teachings of Buddha are still spreading among common people but it has become somewhat limited, the Vinaya states that the teachings of Buddha should only be given by a monk when he was invited by the people who wish to understand Buddhism. 

With Buddhist circuit tour, you will have a experience that just cannot be described in words, each site that you visit has its own significance. During the month of November to January, various Buddhist festivals and it is the best time to go on such a pilgrimage tour. Dalai Lama also visits Bodh Gaya during this time of year.