Lumbinī (Sanskrit: लुम्बिनी, "the lovely") is a Buddhist pilgrimage site in theRupandehi district of Nepal.It is the place
where Queen Mayadevi gave birth to Siddhartha Gautama.Siddhartha
Gautama lived roughly between 623 and 543 BCE and
he founded Buddhism as Gautama
Buddha. Lumbini is one of four magnets for pilgrimage that sprang up
in places pivotal to the life of the Buddha, the others being at Kushinagar, Bodh Gaya and Sarnath.
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