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Map of Lumbini in relation to other Eight Great Places Buddhist pilgrimage sites and notable nearby cities. Lumbinī (Lumbini, pronounced ⓘ, "the lovely") is a Buddhist pilgrimage site in the Rupandehi District of Lumbini Province in Nepal.
Lumbini Province (Nepali: लुम्बिनी प्रदेश, romanized: Lumbinī pradēśa) is a province in western Nepal.The country's third largest province in terms of area as well as population, Lumbini is home to the World Heritage Site of Lumbini, where according to the Buddhist tradition, the founder of Buddhism, Gautama Buddha was born.
Maya Devi temple and ruins of ancient monasteries. Maya Devi temple houses the marker stone and the nativity sculpture related to the birth of Gautama Buddha.The ancient Maya Devi temple was built during the visit of emperor Ashoka in Lumbini around 249 BC using burnt bricks to safeguard the marker stone and nativity sculpture [7] The radiocarbon dating of the posthole alignments from the ...
Lumbini (Nepali: लुम्बिनी अञ्चल Listen ⓘ) was one of the fourteen zones of Nepal until the restructure of zones to provinces. Within the zone is the city of Lumbini , widely believed to be the birthplace of Siddhartha Gautama , [ 1 ] the founder of Buddhism and renowned as a major Buddhist pilgrimage site .
Districts of Lumbini Districts Nepali Headquarters Area (km 2.) Population (2011) Official Website Kapilvastu District: कपिलवस्तु जिल्ला Taulihawa: 1,738 571,936 Nawalparasi (West of Bardaghat Susta) District [2] नवलपरासी (बर्दघाट सुस्ता पश्चिम) Ramgram: 634.88 ...
Lumbini is the birthplace of Buddha on whose teachings Buddhism was founded. [11] It is granted World Heritage status by UNESCO in 1997. [11] Thousands of Buddhist monks, pilgrims and tourists visit Lumbini annually. The ongoing up-gradation of Gautam Buddha Airport into international airport is expected to increase the number of visitors. [12]
Lumbini, the Buddhist pilgrimage site where Buddha was born lies in the center of this municipality. [1] This Lumbini Cultural Municipality was formed merging the existing Lumbini Adarsha Village development committee to six other Village Development Committees i.e. Bhagawanpur, Tenuhawa, Ekala, Khudabazar, Madhuwani, Masina.
The Lumbini pillar inscription, also called the Paderia inscription, is an inscription in the ancient Brahmi script, discovered in December 1896 on a pillar of Ashoka in Lumbini, Nepal by former Chief of the Nepalese Army General Khadga Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana under the authority of Nepalese government and assisted by Alois Anton Führer. [1]