Monks prayingThis is the sacred site of Lord Buddha's birth, which is
today a small village in Nepal, 27 Km from Sunauli on the Indo-Nepal
border. The sacred site of the Buddha's birth is at the southern end of
Lumbini grove. Excavations have revealed a series of rooms and a stone
slab, which is now believed to mark the exact location at which the
Buddha, (or Siddhartha as he would have been known then) was born. The
whole place has an air of remoteness except when the occasional busload
of pilgrims from different corners of the Buddhist universe arrives.
Three hundred years after the Mahaparinirvana, Emperor Ashoka visited
Lumbini and erected a pillar there. This pillar, though broken, still
remains at the site. It is known as the Rummendei pillar after the
earlier name of the place (modern name Rupandehi) in Nepal.
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