Wake up call was at
5:00am and we woke at 4:00am. We had breakfast at 5:30am and checked out at
6:00am. Today we headed for Patna. We went passed Mahatma Gandhi Setu
bridge.
Mahatma Gandhi Setu is a bridge over the river Ganges connecting Patna in
the south to Hajipur in the north of Bihar. It was the longest river bridge in
India at the time of its construction 1982. Its length is 5,575 metres and 48
pillars to this bridge.
This bridge led us to the Buddhist 3rd council at Asokarama
in Pataliputra. It is now left as a garden and some ruins. On the wall there
were pictures of many Buddhist places. Fong took photos of all of the pictures.
This was not the first time I came to this place. Back in December 2011, one of
our group members didn’t want to pay for the entrance fee, so we didn’t enter
the garden. 
Ashoka called the Third Buddhist
Council, the teachings were reviewed and a new, purified collection was set
forth. Nine missions of arhats
were sent out to spread the dharma
into different areas of India and across its vast borders into other countries.
We went in Patna
central and went up to a Goka (a water reservoir). It gave us the best view of Patna. We
took some photos. It was a steep climb.
Next we went to Patna Museum to see Buddha’s
relics according to Thay TC. We had
our lunch at Raj Ra Soi (Chinese) restaurant at Patna. After lunch we went back
to our hotel for dinner.
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