A large footprint embedded atop a 2,234 meter mountain, Sri Pada, is
believed by Buddhists to have been made by Lord Buddha on his second
visit to Sri Lanka in 523 BC.

This site, which draws tens of thousands of pilgrims each year, is one of several sacred places associated with Lord Buddha. Born into a royal family in India, Siddhartha Gautama was deeply disturbed by the sufferings of those around him. He rejected his comfortable life and wandered for many years, searching for a way of life that would help alleviate the suffering of mankind. Finally, after a period of meditation under a Ficus religiosa or bo tree, he attained enlightenment, becoming known as the Buddha or Enlightened One. He traveled throughout India and visited Sri Lanka on three occasions, spreading the doctrine (Dharma) that is the foundation of one of the world’s major faiths, and the faith of the majority of Sri Lankans.

Lord Buddha’s first visit to Sri Lanka in 528 BC was to try to avert a war between two rival factions of a clan. While Lord Buddha was still alive, a dagoba — believed to contain locks of his hair — was built on the site where he is said to have levitated, terrifying and instantly converting the primitive local Veddhas to the Buddhist faith.

This ancient dagoba or dome-shaped stupa at Mahiyangana , east of Kandy, has been added to for more than two thousand years, and is revered as one of the holiest Buddhist sites in the country. Lord Buddha returned to Sri Lanka five years later, again in an attempt to prevent a war. Today, a bell-shaped dagoba marks the site on the small island of Nainativu , west of Jaffna. Near the dagoba is a robust tree, the cutting of which is supposed to have been brought with Lord Buddha. After leaving the mountain peak of Sri Pada where, according to legend, he left his footprint, Lord Buddha is said to have meditated at a spot near the east coast, a remote region between Batticaloa and the beautiful Arugam Bay. The Digavapi dagoba was built here in the 2nd century BC. Another sacred relic, a tooth of Lord Buddha, is enshrined at Sri Dalada Maligawa or the Temple of the Tooth, in Kandy .

Source http://people.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1516117.cms

I thought we have had enough of this discussion in Sajha....

India or Nepal ? history ?????????? whats the truth ? Why nepal is silent ? why india is crying? where wa buddha born ?

I have read nepal and i do believe that what abt u ?

This question does not make any sense to me(inane) because in those days there was no India, or for that matter Nepal. in those days the indian subcontinent was a collection of states with no real unity. only in the mauryan days(asoka) was the subcontinent as united as it is today.

hey buddy u fuc*k in*g right.

knt is very right.

Then there was no India or Nepal, Siddartha Gautam was born in Kapilvastu and any tourist who is geniunly interested in visiting the birthplace of lord buddha will know this fact. However, since Siddartha Gautam achieved the enlightenment or "Nirvana" in India, Indian can be proud to say that Buddha was born, or even more precisely Buddism was born, in Inda, but to me it really does not matter.

On the other hand, I believe, Nepal Tourism Board should have objections to such assertions since a publity of Buddha's being born in India my hamper the the tourism industry of Nepal.

I have had similar discussions with my professor of Eastern religion class where I had to learn Buddha as being “born in India but now in "present day Nepal". I don't think that does justice to us because.....yea at that time neither Nepal nor India was united. So, how can these Indians simply claim Buddha being born there? It was really sad because Nepal was mentioned only once for a second and never after that. Even when they talked about Hinduism ......everything was basically based on India and only India....Nepal is the only Hindu country...yet not once ..the professor mentioned about Nepal. But i guess its more appropriate for them to tell Nepal having the history entied more to Nepalese history perhaps...yet it seems so obvious ..when we have heard cases where Indians have claimed Mount Everest to be in India....Also, I have noticed that when we talk of music.....Nepal also has its own tunes of flutes and so does Pakistan or other Indian subcontinents of other instruments…but then they generalize it as “Indian Music”. How unfair is that? Is it just because of India being the most powerful country?? I am not trying to begin yet another India- Nepal war….but you know jus trying to come down to the nitty-gritty…..I jus feel that in so many ways….our identity is overshadowed by the Indians. Well, at least that’s how I have felt from my experience……..

I agree too, I mean there were no countries during that time. I have such discussions with my teachers everytime; and somewhere in one of my books it was very clearly written that Gautam Buddha was born in India!! I had to explain to them that Lumbini if they have ever heard of that place is in Nepal and that is where all the remaining of his palace and everything is.

Why is there so much patriotism on unnecessary thing? It doesn't matter where,live the life taught by Buddha, that's the message.
History is always written by the powerful civilization. Let us be more powerful and then we can overtune the fact, till then SHUT up.
There's so many things we claim as Nepali without relying on the fact like DAANDI BEYO, the national game of our culture is common to many other nations too like Cambodia. And if you say they copied from us, read a little about Ankor civilization. You'll be surprised. Another one MUNCHURA, the so called national instrument is called Jews' Harp and had existed before us. Basically we have nothing of originality except corruption, stupidity, leg pulling (that should be our national game instead).
So Buddha was born in India for now till we can muscle India someday and make him ours.

Excerpt from http://www.crystalinks.com/buddha.html:-
"Buddha was born around 565 B.C. in Lumbini Park in the city of Kapilavastu in the ancient northern India, today's Nepal. "
Why don't they understand that at that time, it was called Bharat Barsha not India as India didn't exist at that time.

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why does it matter?
if you were to understand budhha's message, you would realize that people are unhappy because they cling to impermanent things like national boundaries

to remind sb above:
It is more of supporting the truth...rather than patriotism....if u wanna name it...then its good either way. History should not be based on fake assumptions and should not be biased either. Its for many generations to follow. So, on that note....I guess its better India does not literally claim Buddha being "solely" from India and blatantly rejecting the facts entied to Nepalese hisotry.

I dont care if buddha was born in nepal, india , srilanka , hospital or nushing home. india may rant but the fact is people from all around the world comes to nepal to see his birthplace, thats what matters to nepal.

Buddha was born in Nepal because Google says so, end of the argument :-)

Yes Buddha was born in a place called india which is a Southern state of NEPAL

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nice, birbhadre !!!!

"BUDDHA WAS BORN IN INDIA" HAS BEEN A CLICHE AND I HAVE STOPPED FEELING BAD ABOUT IT, NO MORE.

ONCE THIS INDIAN MOFO WAS CLAIMING THAT BUDDHA WAS BORN IN INDIA, I TRIED TO CONVINCE HIM BUT TO NO AVAIL. WE WERE IN A RESTAURANT AND I GOT SO MAD AT HIM THAT I THREW WATER FROM MY GLASS INTO HIS FACE. HE STOPPED TALKING WITH ME FOREVER AND THAT'S HOW I THOUGHT I SHOULD DEAL WITH MOFOS WHO SAY BUDDHA WAS BORN IN FU__CKING INDIA. KICK THEIR ASSES


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this is intresting, no matter where buddha was born, either in india or in nepal, majority of citizens of both country hardly follow any teachings and principals of buddha, so why even argue, when you cant accept anything that really matters but all we want is a name associated to us.

Buddha was born in Kapilbasthu, nepal but maybe Kapilbasthu was India's part(not sure) that time but who cares where he was born? hes a god, what you should care is following him and his deeds...

"The Buddha - Siddhartha Gautam was born into the Shakya royal family in Lumbini in south Nepal"

Shakyaaaaaaaa? whaaaaat newar??? :O hes somehow related to newar k! hehe