Sujata Temple

Sujata Temple, also known as Sujata Stupa, is a Buddhist shrine and ancient stupa in Bakraur village near Bodh Gaya, Bihar, on the eastern bank of the Phalgu River. It marks the place where village woman Sujata offered kheer to Siddhartha Gautama before his enlightenment. The brick stupa mound with a small modern shrine is a revered pilgrimage stop for visitors exploring the Bodh Gaya Buddhist circuit.

Visitors can expect a modest brick stupa mound topped with a small white shrine in a quiet rural village setting across the Phalgu River from central Bodh Gaya. The site includes the stupa remains, a shrine image, open fields and village lanes. The atmosphere is calm and pilgrimage-focused, with space for walking around the mound, photography from outside, and viewing the surrounding agricultural landscape.

The site commemorates Sujata, a village woman who offered rice pudding (kheer) to the emaciated Siddhartha Gautama shortly before his enlightenment at Bodh Gaya. The stupa mound is believed to date to the 2nd century BCE with later Gupta period enlargements, marking an early Buddhist commemorative structure associated with this event.

Revered in Buddhism as the place of Sujata's offering that sustained the Buddha before enlightenment, the stupa is an important pilgrimage site on the Bodh Gaya circuit. It reflects local folk tradition and Buddhist devotional practice, visited by pilgrims and monks for prayer and remembrance.