KUSHINAGAR - This is the place where Buddha died. Just before he reached his 80th birthday he renounced his will to live any longer and proceeded on a journey with some of his faithful companions to Kushinagar. On the way he ate a meal of mushrooms and got sick from them. When they got to Kushinagar he first rested and drank some water near a river, then went to a park nearby. In the park he knew death was near so he had his cousin, Ananda make a bed for him between two sal trees where he laid down with his face toward the north. There he died.

I was able to capture three of the reader boards in the area.