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    Lumbini: Birthplace of the Buddha

    Sep 01, 2019 3 minutes
    by Christine Graf

    The Nepali city of Lumbini is one of the holiest places in the world to 500 million Buddhists. It was where Siddhartha Gautama was born. He is better known as the Buddha, which means “the enlightened/awakened one.”

    Lord Buddha founded Buddhism, a religion followed by ten percent of Nepal’s population. Most Buddhists live in east and southeast Asia. Followers of Buddhism do not worship a god or supreme being. Instead, they focus on finding wisdom, inner peace, and personal spiritual development.

    Lumbini was officially

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