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Thursday, January 18, 2024

KUSHINAGAR INDIA

 

KUSHINAGAR

About 50 km from Gorakhpur, Buddha took his last breath at Kushinagar and attained Mahaparinirvana. The Mahaparinirvana temple houses a huge statue of the reclining Buddha, excavated in 1876. It is also known from excavations in Kushinagar that a large community of monks lived here in the 11th century.

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