Q:- Where were Gautam Buddha actually born?
-> Lumbini in Nepal..
Gautama Buddha is believed to have lived between 563 BC and 483 BC.
It is said that when his pregnant mother Maya Devi was leaving Kapilvastu to deliver Gautama at her father’s place at Rangram she gave birth to a beautiful child in the gardens of Lumbini below the sal tree. It is believed that she bathed in a bricked pool called Puskarni and then walked 25 paces to deliver the baby.
The child was named Siddhartha who later on came to be known as Gautama Buddha. He is said to have emerged from her right side and taken seven steps in the four directions; as he walked, lotus flowers bloomed.
Sadly, Maya Devi died seven days after his birth and he was brought up by her younger sister and the second wife of Suddhodan Pajapati.
The birthplace of Gautam Buddha is situated on the foothills of Himalaya in the kingdom of Nepal and the day on which Siddhartha Gautam was born is celebrated as Vesak.
The central focus at Lumbini is the Maya Devi temple. A stone relief probably 2nd century AD shows her giving birth to the Buddha watched by the two Hindu gods Brahma and Indra. King Ashoka visited the Lumbii forest and constructed four stupas and stone pillars with horse figure on top of it.
A German archaeologist discovered the famous pillars in 1895 in the foothills of Churia range and on further excavation a brick temple and sandstone sculpture was discovered within the temple which depiction of Buddha’s birth.
-> Lumbini in Nepal..
Gautama Buddha is believed to have lived between 563 BC and 483 BC.
It is said that when his pregnant mother Maya Devi was leaving Kapilvastu to deliver Gautama at her father’s place at Rangram she gave birth to a beautiful child in the gardens of Lumbini below the sal tree. It is believed that she bathed in a bricked pool called Puskarni and then walked 25 paces to deliver the baby.
The child was named Siddhartha who later on came to be known as Gautama Buddha. He is said to have emerged from her right side and taken seven steps in the four directions; as he walked, lotus flowers bloomed.
Sadly, Maya Devi died seven days after his birth and he was brought up by her younger sister and the second wife of Suddhodan Pajapati.
The birthplace of Gautam Buddha is situated on the foothills of Himalaya in the kingdom of Nepal and the day on which Siddhartha Gautam was born is celebrated as Vesak.
The central focus at Lumbini is the Maya Devi temple. A stone relief probably 2nd century AD shows her giving birth to the Buddha watched by the two Hindu gods Brahma and Indra. King Ashoka visited the Lumbii forest and constructed four stupas and stone pillars with horse figure on top of it.
A German archaeologist discovered the famous pillars in 1895 in the foothills of Churia range and on further excavation a brick temple and sandstone sculpture was discovered within the temple which depiction of Buddha’s birth.
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