Besides the shrine sanctum, the Srilankan President also offered prayers under Bodhi tree, the symbol of Buddha's enlightenment and a direct descendant of the original Peepal tree beneath which, Buddha, then a wandering prince from the Himalayan Kingdom received enlightenment and graduated to divinity to become Buddha, the enlightened one. The Srilankan President was received at the Gaya International airport by senior officials including divisional commissioner RK Khandelwal, DIG PK Srivastava, DM Sanjay Agrawal and SSP P Kannan.
The Srilankan president also walked around the shrine and visited other important points including Muclind Sarovar and Meditation Park. The president also made an entry in the shrine visitors book. He was presented momentos by the shrine management committee.
Before flying off, Sirisena also visited the a Srilankan monastery and had a look at the Buddha relics preserved in the Srilankan monastery in Bodh Gaya to the north west of the Mahabodhi Temple. The Srilankan president paid tributes to Angarika Dhammapala, the 19th century Srilankan Buddhist missionary who was instrumental in the propagation of the Buddha faith in the land of its birth. The visiting head of state garlanded the missionary's statue in the monastery premises.
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