Buddha Purnima—also known as Vesak or Buddha Jayanti—is celebrated globally to mark the birth of Lord Gautam Buddha, the founder of Buddhism. The day also commemorates his enlightenment after years of ...

Siddhartha Gautama, the Lord Buddha, was born in 623 B.C. in the famous gardens of Lumbini, which soon became a place of pilgrimage. Among the pilgrims was the Indian emperor Ashoka, who erected one ...

The growing town in Nepal is trying to appeal to tourists as well as pilgrims LUMBINI, Nepal -- It's 6 p.m. when a dusty sun descends beyond the rice paddies in Lumbini, Nepal, in the southern Terai ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — The United Nations’ cultural agency decided Thursday against putting the Buddhist pilgrimage destination of Lumbini on its list of heritage sites in danger, instead giving ...

Lumbini, Nepal – 108,000 tree saplings breathed new life into the Sacred Garden of Lumbini today marking a feat in participatory nature conservation in the holy birthplace of the Lord Buddha Lumbini, ...

"It was going great until 2019 when the COVID-19 pandemic struck. There were about 1.6 million visitors annually, with a strong presence of domestic visitors followed by Indians and visitors from many ...

"This (Lumbini) place is where the Tathagata was born; this is a place which should be visited and seen by a person having faith, devotion, and mindfulness which would cause the awareness and ...

Gopa is currently the director of English Language Centre at the OP Jindal Global University, Sonipat. As an educationist and a researcher, she earned her DPhil from the University of Oxford after her ...

Management activities Management systems/ management plan Other Threats: Impact of the new structure of the Maya Devi Temple (constructed in 2002) on the archaeological remains, as well as on the ...

Housing Interpretative and visitation facilities Legal framework Management activities Management systems/ management plan Other Threats: Impact of the new structure of the Maya Devi Temple ...