Lumbini

Lumbini is a Buddhist pilgrimage website situated at the Nepalese city of Kapilavastu, district Rupandehi,
Lumbini is one of four Buddhist pilgrimage sites supported major events within the lifetime of Buddha. Interestingly, all of the events occurred under trees.
The other 3 sites square measure in India: Bodh Gaya, Sarnat, and Kushinagar .

History of Lumbini

Lumbini is the traditional birthplace of Buddha, who was born in the seventh or sixth century before Christ.
According to Buddhist tradition, buddha was burn by mayadevi on her thanks to her parent's aim Devadaha within the month of May within the year 642 before Christ. Feeling the onset of labor pains, she grabbed hold branches of shade tree and birth to Siddharta Gautama and Gautama  is alleged to possess announced, "This is my caboose rebirth" as he entered the world. Buddhist tradition has it that he walked forthwith when his birth and took seven steps, under every of that a flower bloomed.

In 249 BC, the Buddhist convert Emperor Ashoka visited Lumbini and build four stupas and a stone pillar. king Ashoka's Pillar bears an inscription that interprets as:king Ashoka, beloved of devas, in the 20 year of the initiation, himself made a major visit, Buddha Sakyamuni having been born here, a stone railing was made and a stone pillar fill to the Bhagavan blessed one to born here. Lumbini village was taxed reduced and entitled to the eight part.

Monasteries and temples were built at Lumbini till the ninth century, but Buddhism reduce in the space when the arrival of Islam and some Hinduism. All remained was a sculpture, revered by local ladies as a fertility image. The garden of the Buddha's birth was lost for a thousand years. Buddha's birth.

The site was rediscovered in 1895, when a German anthropologist came upon Ashoka's Pillar. Identified its inscription also. Records made by the Chinese pilgrim solfa syllable Xian were additionally used in the method of characteristic this religiously acclaimed website. Lumbini was designated a UN agency World Heritage website in 1997.