Story highlights Four of the eight explosions take place at the Mahabodi complex 
 
 The temple houses a tree where Buddha is believed to have attained enlightenment 
 
 Suspicion falls on the Islamist group Indian Mujahideen 
 
 A series of small bombs went off in and around a world-famous Buddhist temple in eastern India Sunday, injuring two people, authorities said. 
 
 Four of the eight explosions occurred at the Mahabodhi temple complex, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Bihar state that houses a tree where Buddha is believed to have attained enlightenment. 
 
 The temple itself was not damaged. 
 
 The other four blasts hit other sacred locations around Mahabodhi, said Bihar police official S.K. Bhardwaj. 
 
 A 50-year-old Tibetan and a 30-year-old Myanmar national were injured in the attack, Bhardwaj said. 
 
 While no one took responsibility for the attack, suspicion fell on the home-grown Islamist group Indian Mujahideen, Bhardwaj said. 
 
 The group, designated as a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department, is blamed for dozens of deadly bomb explosions throughout India since 2005. ||||| Image caption The Bodh Gaya temple complex is one of the oldest in India 
 
 A series of blasts has shaken India's holiest Buddhist shrine, where the Buddha himself is said to have gained enlightenment, police have said. 
 
 Two people were injured in nine explosions in the Bodh Gaya temple complex, in northern Bihar state. 
 
 Police described the bombs as low-intensity timed devices. Windows and one door in the complex were damaged. 
 
 The Indian government said the blasts were a terror attack. No group has said it was responsible. 
 
 Witnesses said some of the bombs exploded close to the Bodhi tree, thought to be a descendant of the one that the Buddha sat under when he achieved enlightenment, according to tradition. 
 
 Police said there was no damage to the tree. 
 
 Prime Minister Manmohan Singh strongly condemned the blasts, saying: "Such attacks on religious places will be never be tolerated." 
 
 The Bodh Gaya complex is one of the oldest Buddhist sites in India. It was listed as a world heritage site by the UN cultural organisation Unesco in 2002. 
 
 Correspondents say attacks on Buddhists are rare in India, but there have been recent Muslim-Buddhist tensions in nearby Burma (also called Myanmar), Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. 
 
 The Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, went on a quest for enlightenment some time in the 5th or 6th Century BC. He is said to have achieved it while sitting under the Bodhi tree (tree of awakening). 
 
 There are currently some 376 million followers of Buddhism worldwide.
– Two people were injured as a number of small bombs hit a major Buddhist temple yesterday in eastern India. The Mahabodhi temple complex, home to a tree where Buddha is said to have reached enlightenment, was struck by at least four blasts, but the temple wasn't damaged, CNN reports—nor was the tree, though bombs reportedly went off nearby, the BBC adds. Several other explosions hit sacred spots near the UNESCO World Heritage Site, in India's Bihar state, police say. The injured were a Tibetan, 50, and a Burmese national, 30. No group took responsibility for the attack, but authorities suspect Indian Islamist group Mujahideen.