3D print the Mahabodhi Temple
A free, printable model of the Mahabodhi Temple's stepped tower with its small corner towers, and the streets, low buildings and water around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Mahabodhi Temple
Mahabodhi Temple, whose name literally means "Great Awakening Temple", is a Buddhist temple that has been restored and stands in Bodh Gaya, Bihar, India. By Buddhist tradition, it marks the place of the Buddha's enlightenment. The site, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, holds a tree believed to descend from the Bodhi Tree associated with that event, and it has been a major pilgrimage destination for Buddhists for over two thousand years.
Some elements of the site go back to the time of Ashoka, who died around 232 BCE, and Ashoka is regarded as the temple's founder. The Vajrasana, or Diamond throne, inside the temple dates to the third century BCE. The visible parts date from the 6th century CE or even earlier, together with large restorations carried out since the 19th century. Its pyramid-shaped form dates to the Gupta period, the 5th–6th century CE, though it may restore earlier work from the 2nd or 3rd century.
Two large straight-sided shikhara towers rise from the temple complex, the larger over 55 m (180 ft) high. The same feature appears in Jain and Hindu temples and shaped Buddhist architecture abroad, for example the pagoda. The main temple is chiefly brick with a stucco coating, materials far less durable than stone, so its survival is especially impressive. The museum next to the temple holds many of the oldest sculptures, while some pieces, including the carved stone railing wall, have been replaced with replicas.
How it prints
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
| Print size | Landmark height | Scale |
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| 160 mm default | 16 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 19 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 25 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Rows of tiny arched niches
- Dozens of small arched niches climb the stepped tower. They are very fine: Print friendly adapts them to the print scale, and Full detail keeps them on larger prints, where 0.12 to 0.16 mm layers help.
- Small corner towers and finial
- Four small towers stand at the corners of the base, and a small finial crowns the top. Printing slowly with cooling helps these tips stay clean.
- One piece with the ground
- The Mahabodhi Temple is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
- In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
- Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. The Mahabodhi Temple takes the building color.
- File format
- You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About this model
The Mahabodhi Temple is one of more than 2,300 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
Common questions
Is there a Mahabodhi Temple STL I can download?
Mini Skyline builds the file for you in your browser and exports 3MF, which every major slicer opens. If you need an STL, open the 3MF in your slicer and export it from there.
How big can I print it?
Any print size from 40 mm across. The Mahabodhi Temple grows with the print: about 16 mm tall on the default 160 mm print. For a model larger than your printer bed, Project Mode splits the area into tiles.
Is it free?
Yes. Generation runs in your browser, with no account and nothing behind a paywall.
