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 ...

That was when Emperor Ashoka, following the devastating battle of Kalinga, set out on a pilgrimage to Lumbini with Upagupta. There he erected a sandstone pillar surmounted with a horse finial atop an ...

It was Ashoka who in 248 or 249 B.C., more than a century after the Buddha’s death, erected a sandstone pillar in Lumbini with an inscription that reads, in part: “Here was born the Buddha ...

The pillar, which was erected by Emperor Ashoka in 249 BC, bears the first epigraphic evidence of Lumbini being the birthplace of Lord Buddha. Thereafter, the two Prime Ministers watered the Bodhi ...

A Buddhist sage, known as a sadhu, sits under a bodhi tree in Lumbini ... landmarks and pillars across his empire. (See 20 beautiful Buddhist temples around the world.) Emperor Ashoka, a convert ...

dating from the third century B.C. The pillar’s inscription states that Emperor Ashoka visited this site of Buddha’s birth. Scholars say the more modern Maya Devi Temple at Lumbini ...

Until now, the earliest Buddhist temples have been attributed to Emperor Ashoka, who in the 3 rd century BC spread Buddhism across the region, as evidenced by his Pillar and brick built temple in ...

Mahaastavir added that as Ashoka had set up the Ashoka pillar in Lumbini, there should not be a debate over the birthplace of Buddha. Charumati Buddha Bihar Chief Monk Tapashi Dhamma said Ashoka had ...

This fragment comes from one of the pillars erected throughout India by the Emperor Ashoka around 240 BC. The type of writing used for the inscription is known as 'Brahmi' and forms the basis for ...

Next to the temple is the Ashoka Pillar, erected by Indian Emperor Ashoka in tribute to Buddha while on pilgrimage to Lumbini in 249 BC. Today the site includes several monasteries, gardens ...

the only relic stupa not opened by Emperor Ashoka in the third century BCE, and Tilaurakot-Kapilavastu, the archaeological remains of the ancient Shakya Kingdom. As an ensemble, these sites are ...