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Kushinagar (Pali: Kusinārā; Sanskrit: Kuśinagara) is a town in the Kushinagar district in Uttar Pradesh, India. Located 53 kilometres (33 miles) east of Gorakhpur on National Highway 27 , Kushinagar is an important and popular Buddhist pilgrimage site , where Buddhists believe Gautama Buddha died and attained parinirvana .
Kushinagar (also known as Kusinagar, Kusinara, Kasia and Kasia Bazar) is the name of town in northern India where the Buddhists believe that Gautama Buddha passed into Parinirvana. Kushinagar is one of the four main pilgrimage sites for Buddhist pilgrims.
Kusinārā (pali) or Kushinagar, Kusinagara is a town in the Kushinagar district of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is in the Northeast area of India. This is the place where Lord Buddha chose for his Maha-parinibbana or Final Release from the round of samsara (the continuous round of births and deaths).
Oct 21, 2021 · Among the most important of Buddhist pilgrimages, Kushinagar was where The Buddha attained Mahaparinirvana (ultimate salvation) in c. 483 BC.
Kushinagar is the place where Buddha Shakyamuni entered ‟Mahaparinirvana”, the ‟great transcendence of suffering”. When he reached his eighty-first year, the Buddha gave teaching at the Vulture’s Peak of Rajgir, and went north with his nephew to Nalanda and then Vaishali, a place where he often stayed and where he had given teachings ...
Feb 9, 2024 · Kushinagar is the place where Gautam Buddha chose to die and attend mahaparinirvan — the Sanskrit term which means nirvana after death. Today, Kushinagar is a small sleepy hamlet in Uttar Pradesh, not far from the Nepal border.
Kushinagar is the site of the Buddha’s parinirvana and was chosen for specific reasons. The main reasons include: (1) it was the proper venue for the preaching of the Maha-sudassana suttanta , (2) to admit Subhadda, who was living there, to the Sangha before his death and (3) the availability of the Brahmin Drona who would solve the problem ...
