Lumbini (Nepal), where the Buddha was born.

One of the four important Buddhist holy sites, the Lumbini Garden, where the Buddha was born, is considered one of the most important pilgrimage sites of Buddhists all over the world.

Lumbini is located at the foot of the Himalayas, in the Rupandehi region in southwestern Nepal, bordering India. As mentioned in the sutras, queen Ma Da, the wife of Suddhodana, ruler of the small kingdom of the Sakya clan, Gotama, northern India, Dreaming of seeing a six-foot white elephant follow the flow of light that entered her body, causing her to conceive. According to the ancient Indian, near the date of birth, Queen asked permission of the King to return home to give birth. When going to Ngu Uyen Ngoc Uyen garden of the Indian emperor Giap, about 15 km from Kapilavastu, she stopped for rest. When walking around the garden, the queen suddenly saw a beautiful white vanilla flowers hatched on a nearby tree trunk nearby, she raised her left hand to pick but then, The fetus suddenly starts to move and the prince is born right from her left armpit. As soon as he was born, the prince walked seven steps, each with a lotus lifting his feet, his left hand pointing to the sky, his right hand to the ground, saying:

Heavenly place

Duy Duy unique

Essentially sentient beings

Buddhist life.

Mean:

In heaven on earth

Only me is unique

All sentient beings

It is Buddhist.

The Prince was born to make King Sri Soudhothana very happy, the king invited the priests to see the Prince to the Prince. All said, Prince has all 32 good general, no one in the world, then later if the king will become a great emperor to become a monk will become a great master. So the king named the Prince Siddhartha, who also crowned the Crown Prince. After Prince Siddhartha was born seven days, Queen Ma Da, his mother died. He was given by the king to his aunt Maha Pajapati Gotami, who taught, according to the queen's message.

The stone pillars set up by King Asa

The inscription on King Asoka's pillar

During the time of the Buddha, Lumbini was a beautiful garden covered with blue and shade, between Kapilavastu and Yingkou. About 249 BC, King Asoka had visited Lumbini, setting up four stone pillars here, marking the birthplace of the Buddha. In 1986, a British archaeologist named Cuningham unearthed a pillar in the four pillars buried by Asoka. On the stone pillar read: "Piyadasi (Asoka) in the reign of the twentieth year has personally come here to worship. Shakyamuni Buddha was born here, four stone pillars were erected to mark the birth of the Buddha. Lumbini Village, where the Buddha was born with a tax reduction and enjoyed eight parts. "

The Lumbini Garden was recognized by UNESCO as World Cultural Heritage in 1997.

Mayadevi Temple

The exact location where the Buddha was born

Today, the Lumbini garden is located in a large area surrounded by monasteries, divided into two monasteries, the Eastern Monastery and the Western Monastery; the East is a Theravada Buddhist monastery; The West is the monastery of Mahayana Buddhism and Vajrayana. Lumbini gardens are now home to the relics of the ancient monasteries, the sacred bodhi tree, the ancient bathing pond, Asoka's stone pillars and the Mayadevi temple exactly where the Buddha was born. END=NAM MO SHAKYAMOUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.THE MIND OF ENLIGHTENMENT.VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN LOTUS MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.23/7/2017.