LUMBINI

Buddhist statue on the side of the road near Lumbini

The many armed and many headed Buddha at a store front just outside the park at Lumbini.



The votive on top of the Hindu Temple where Buddha was born

The building that is built over the place where Buddha was born.



The exact spot where Siddartha was born, according to Buddhist lore.

Legend has it that Buddha once meditated under this tree when he passed through Lumbini on his way to see his father after his career was established.

Vegaterian Cuisine of Nepal

KAPILVASTU - The ruins of one of two places that is claimed to be the childhood home of Buddha. This place is in India. The other is in Nepal.

A monastery in the background. Ruins of the house in the foreground.



Ruins of a building, alledgedly the childhood home of Siddartha Gautma who became the Buddha.

BALRUMPUR to JETAVANA


Picture in the hotel hall.

The place where Buddha and his disciples spent the rainy seasons. In his day they would have lived in huts made of bamboo and grass. Over the centuries monestaries have been built here and torn down, and then rebuilt again. The well that Buddha used is still here.

A Buddhist statue in Buddha country.