Posted by: CrazyHorse April 2, 2010
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thanks lex for your initiative to promote Nepal and "jewel of Asia"
this is what i found our while taking Contemporary to Religion class this semester.
563 BCE: Prince Siddhartha Gautama (Lord Buddha) was born in Lumbini, south Nepal. He was born into King Suddhodana Gautama and his queen Mayadevi, rulers of the Shakya tribe of Kapilavastu region near Lumbini. He came to Kathmandu valley with his several disciples during the rule of the 7th Kirati ruler, King Jitedasti.
The fact was that the life of Buddha was not a myth but reality comes from one of the inscriptions in the pillar erected by King Asoka in 239 BCE. The inscriptions read Here was the Enlightened One born. During the rule of the 14th Kirat King Sthunko, the Indian Emperor Ashoka also came to the Kathmandu Valley with his daughter, princess
Charumati. During his stay in the valley, he had four stupas built in four directions and one in the centre of Patan. The stupa still stand in the Patan outside Lagankhel market. Today the UNESCO has declared Kapilavastu, and Lumbini, as a World Heritage site.
jai Nepal.
this is what i found our while taking Contemporary to Religion class this semester.
563 BCE: Prince Siddhartha Gautama (Lord Buddha) was born in Lumbini, south Nepal. He was born into King Suddhodana Gautama and his queen Mayadevi, rulers of the Shakya tribe of Kapilavastu region near Lumbini. He came to Kathmandu valley with his several disciples during the rule of the 7th Kirati ruler, King Jitedasti.
The fact was that the life of Buddha was not a myth but reality comes from one of the inscriptions in the pillar erected by King Asoka in 239 BCE. The inscriptions read Here was the Enlightened One born. During the rule of the 14th Kirat King Sthunko, the Indian Emperor Ashoka also came to the Kathmandu Valley with his daughter, princess
Charumati. During his stay in the valley, he had four stupas built in four directions and one in the centre of Patan. The stupa still stand in the Patan outside Lagankhel market. Today the UNESCO has declared Kapilavastu, and Lumbini, as a World Heritage site.
jai Nepal.
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