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Friday, August 22, 2025
Volume 16 . Issue 73
Archaeologists uncovered evidence of the world's earliest Buddhist shrine linking the life of the Buddha to a specific century.
A structure unearthed at the sacred Maya Devi Temple at Lumbini, Nepal -- a UNESCO World Heritage site long identified as the birthplace of the Buddha -- has been dated to the 6th century B.C.
A timber structure, found beneath a series of newer brick temples, with an open space in the center that links to the nativity story of the Buddha himself, the National Geographic Society reported Monday.
Previously the earliest archaeological evidence of Buddhist structures at Lumbini dated no earlier than the third century B.C., the time of the patronage of the Emperor Asoka, who promoted the spread of Buddhism from present-day Afghanistan to Bangladesh.
(With inputs from agencies)
Archaeologists uncovered evidence of the world's earliest Buddhist shrine linking the life of the Buddha to a specific century. A structure unearthed at the sacred Maya Devi Temple at Lumbini, Nepal -- a UNESCO World Heritage site long identified as the birthplace of the Buddha -- has been dated...
Archaeologists uncovered evidence of the world's earliest Buddhist shrine linking the life of the Buddha to a specific century.
A structure unearthed at the sacred Maya Devi Temple at Lumbini, Nepal -- a UNESCO World Heritage site long identified as the birthplace of the Buddha -- has been dated to the 6th century B.C.
A timber structure, found beneath a series of newer brick temples, with an open space in the center that links to the nativity story of the Buddha himself, the National Geographic Society reported Monday.
Previously the earliest archaeological evidence of Buddhist structures at Lumbini dated no earlier than the third century B.C., the time of the patronage of the Emperor Asoka, who promoted the spread of Buddhism from present-day Afghanistan to Bangladesh.
(With inputs from agencies)
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