Vhootee looks more like a Tibetan than a Nepali. Anyway, no comment on Dalai Lama?s remark (I don't know for sure if he recognizes India as a birth place of G. Buddha, and i think he might not have an authority or may not have enough scientific understanding to claim about Buddha birth place). Archeologists are working on it and most of them has consensus that Buddha was born in Lumbini and the capital of then Lumbini/Kapilvestu is now happened to be in Nepal. I think it may not be much worthy to debate/claim about if G. Buddha was born in Nepal or in India. In fact he was not born in both of these countries! (they were inexistent by then). He was born in Lumbuni and was enlightened in Gaya. His birth place (Lumbuni) now happens to be in Nepal and the Gaya in India. That's it! Nut