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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.
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).
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.
The Buddha's living nirvana, achieved during enlightenment, at death transforms to nirvana without human residue. Self possessed, without psychological pain, untroubled by the thoughts of death, the Buddha identifies four places of future pilgrimage: the sites of his birth, enlightenment, first sermon, and death.
When the Buddha was asked why he had chosen Kushinagar to pass away, he replied that there were three reasons. The first one was that Kushinagar was the proper venue for teaching the Maha-Sudassana Sutra.
Oct 21, 2021 · Today’s Kushinagar is identified with Kushinara, capital of the ancient Malla republic, which was one of the 16 mahajanapadas of the 6th-4th centuries BC. The area went on to be part of the kingdoms of the Mauryas, Shungas, Kushanas, Guptas, Harshavardhana, and the Palas.
May 31, 2020 · Kushinagar sits in the modern-day district of the same name in the extreme north-east of Uttar Pradesh, less than 150 km from Lumbini, now in Nepal. At the time of the Buddha’s death, Kushinagar was called Kushavati and was the capital of the tribal kingdom of the Mallas.
