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Koliya, Nawalparasi District of Nepal; Swayambhunath, Kathmandu, Nepal; Boudhanath, Kathmandu, Nepal; Namo Buddha - Kavrepalanchok District (place where the Bodhisattva offered his body to a tigress.) Patan Durbar Square, Lalitpur, Nepal; Halesi-Maratika Caves (venerated site of Buddhist & Hindu pilgrimage), Khotang, District in Nepal
The Mahaparinirvan Express is a tourist train which was launched by the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) on 28 March 2007, to attract Buddhist pilgrims. [1] The train takes passengers on an eight-day, seven-night spiritual tour which visits Buddhist sites across North India and Nepal .
Gautama Buddha himself had identified the following four sites most worthy of pilgrimage for his followers, observing that these would produce a feeling of spiritual urgency: [1] Lumbini: birthplace of The Buddha as Prince Siddhartha Gautam (in Taulihawa, Lumbini, Nepal) is the most important religious site and place of pilgrimages for Buddhism ...
The Halesi-Maratika Caves (also the Haleshi Mahadev temple) are located next to the village of Mahadevasthan, in the Khotang District of eastern Nepal, 3,100 ft. – 4,734 ft. above sea level. The cave and temple are about 185 km south west of Mount Everest. The temple is a venerated pilgrimage site for Hindus, Buddhists and Kirat. [1]
The Thrangu Tashi Yangtse Monastery or Namo Buddha Monastery is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery about 40 km (by road) southeast of Nepal's capital city Kathmandu and 2.3km from Manegaun, a Tamang village. It lies at the top of the hill in Namobuddha Municipality. The monastery is a center for tourism.
It was built around 1650AD and is one of the popular Buddhist pilgrimage site in Kathmandu, Nepal. [1] [2] The stupa is also called Shree Gha-Shanti Ghat Bhajradhatu Mahachaitya [3] or Kathesimbhu stupa or Kashi Swayambhu. [4] The main stupa is surrounded by smaller chaityas inscriptions, statutes and an ancient cloister similar to Tibetan ...
Ramagrama stupa (Nepali: रामग्राम नगरपालिका, also Ramgram, Rāmgrām, Rāmagrāma) is a stupa located in Ramgram Municipality, in the Parasi District of Nepal. This Buddhist pilgrimage site containing relics of Gautama Buddha was constructed between the Mauryan and Gupta periods, according to research by Nepal ...
According to a holy book, which was once discovered long ago, the site of the temple was once a forked piece of stone, which spouted fire. This was quite significant when the rest of the world was covered with snow and before long there emerged a five-colored flame, which came to be the volcanic goddess.