"Buddha was born in Nepal." This chant must be familiar to you guys.
I would like to present a position that in fact Buddha was born in both Nepal and India.
Of course the child siddhartha was born in Lumbini, which is currently in Nepal. But when you say buddha "the enlightened one," he became so, in other words "reborn" in India, bodhgaya.
I think buddha trancends this puny political boundary we have created.
Imagine what buddha would have said when he saw us Nepali, who instead of finding inner self and understanding true nature of reality are occupied with this whirlwhind of nonsense protest about letting the world know buddha was born in Nepal.
Buddha is bigger than us all. His ideas trancends our culture, place, and country.
In fact the correct statement is not that buddha was born in Nepal but
"Siddhartha Gautam was born in Nepal and he became Buddha in India"

Peace