🇳🇵 Nepal · Temple complex
Lumbini Sacred Garden
Shakya to Maurya to Gupta to modern pilgrimage · Shakya (Maya Devi) / Maurya / Buddhist
Birthplace of Siddhartha Gautama, Buddha Shakyamuni (623 BCE tradition), marked by Ashoka's 249 BCE Rummindei pillar with Brahmi inscription 'Buddha Sakyamuni was born here...' — oldest epigraphic…
