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Rejuvenate your body with the healing touch of yoga, take a dip in the holy waters of the Ganges, or simply absorb the same in the colorful Pushkar Mela. Change image country to a land of snake charmers, the Government of India is now the future to promote India as the land of spirituality.

Ministry of Tourism of India has been courting foreign market for a long time spiritual pilgrimages to ancestral places, resulting in throwing tourists from all over the world-America, Europe, Southeast Asia and Australia. In 2005, an estimated 3.92 million foreign tourists visited India generating foreign exchange earnings upto $ 5.7billion. Keeping an eye on big Asia globetrotting Buddhist communities, the new buzzword for the Government of India is "Buddhist Tourism.

Even today At present, Buddhism is still a major force in East Asia and in Thailand, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Cambodia and so on, with about a thousand million Buddhists worldwide. However, the importance of Buddhism in ancient India has gone missing, despite the existence of monuments and places associated with Buddhism, in cities scattered across the country.

These holy places are the most sacred Buddhist shrine, the temple in Bodhgaya Mahabodi City, in Bihar, where it is believed that Buddha attained enlightenment 2,500 years ago, and today is a World Heritage site.

In the past 50 years, India has not promote these Buddhist sites, including foreign funds remaining underutilized. Tourists will not visit these holy places in India due to lack of infrastructure and amenities and services decent standards, reflected in the fact that foreign tourists at the entrance of Bihar in 2005 generated more than Rs 75 Lakh.

Realizing the potential of attracting large number of foreign Buddhist pilgrims, the Ministry of Tourism of India, has decided to upgrade these old sites as tourist spots and encourage more tourists to visit the Buddhist circuit as part of "spiritual tourism" for Buddhists worldwide.

Having already spent $ 20.5 million between the eighth and tenth five-year plans in beautifying existing sites, the Government of India has now decided to pump in additional financial assistance to develop tourism infrastructure at these sites.

Buddhist tourist circuit, partly funded by Japan, is allocated across 16 Indian states in Orissa, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, as principal axes. Three circuits in Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow-Awad, Agra, Varanasi and Braj-Vindhya, have been identified for the first phase of the project.

India is a country of many religious spirituality and people have been known to come to find comfort from ancient times. In developing Buddhist tourism in India, Government of India is opening its doors to the large number of tourists, the place where Prince Siddhartha Gautama attained enlightenment to become Buddha.

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