Siddhartha Gautama, the Lord Buddha, was born in 623 B.C. in the famous gardens of Lumbini, which soon became a place of pilgrimage. Among the pilgrims was the Indian emperor Ashoka, who erected one of his commemorative pillars there. The site is now being developed as a Buddhist pilgrimage centre, where the archaeological remains associated with the birth of the Lord Buddha form a central feature.
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Lumbini is a Buddhist pilgrimage site in the Rupandehi District of Lumbini Province in Nepal. According to sacred texts and Buddhist commentaries, Maya Devi gave birth to Siddhartha Gautama in Lumbini, c. 563 BCE. Siddhartha Gautama achieved Enlightenment and became Shakyamuni Buddha who founded Buddhism. He later passed into parinirvana at the age of eighty, c. 483 BCE. Lumbini is one of four most sacred pilgrimage sites pivotal in the life of the Buddha.
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