Visit India!
Published by the advertising branch of the Ministry of Information, this anonymous invitation to visit the second most populous country in the world invites us to experience the spiritual side of India. The Maha Bodhi Temple, where the Gautama Buddha acheived supreme enlightenment, took place became a place of pilgrimage. Inside the temple there is a colossal image of the Buddha in the “touching the ground pose”, bhumisparsha mudra. This image is said to be 1700 years old and is facing east exactly at the place where the Buddha in meditation with his back to the Bodhi tree was enlightened.