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    Kushinagar (redirect from Kusinagara)
    Kushinagar (Pali: Kusinārā; Sanskrit: Kuśinagara) is a town in the Kushinagar district in Uttar Pradesh, India. Located 53 kilometres (33 miles) east of...
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    these accounts are just the account of the Buddha's parinirvāṇa itself at Kuśinagara and the funerary rites following his death. He deems all other extended...
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    Mallakas defending the city of Kusinagara with war elephants, as depicted at Sanchi....
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    Parinirvana. Initially, the relics had been kept exclusively by the Mallakas of Kusinagara, where the Buddha died, but following the War of the relics, the relics...
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    vaulted chamber enshrining the colossal statue of the Nirvana Buddha at Kusinagara. As this statue was seen by Hwen Thsang in A.D. 637, the use of the arch...
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    about the Middle Way, the Four Noble Truths and Noble Eightfold Path. Kuśinagara: (now Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh, India) where Gautama Buddha died and...
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    edging the balconies and loggias of the fort-palace in the relief of Kusinagara in the War over the Buddha's Relics, South Gate, Stupa no. 1, Sanchi....
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    as an offering while he visited his mango grove in Pāvā on his way to Kuśīnagara. Shortly after having Cunda's meal, the Buddha suffered from fatal dysentery...
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    departure from the world) just three months in advance. Before leaving for Kusinagara, where he died, he left his alms-bowl (Bhiksha-Patra) here with the people...
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  • Early republics or gaṇasaṅgha, such as Mallakas, centered in the city of Kusinagara, and the Vajjika (or Vṛjika) League, centered in the city of Vaishali...
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    king from dying. Only then did he proceed to Kuśinagara. It turned out the Malla people from Kuśinagara had attempted to light the funeral pyre of the...
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    governments. Gaṇasaṅghas, such as the Mallakas, centered in the city of Kusinagara, and the Vajjika League, centered in the city of Vaishali, existed as...
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    depicted riding on an elephant and bearing the relics into the town of Kusinagara on his own head. The tree behind the throne in front of the city gate...
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  • workings. Among the larger Mahajanapadas, Mallas, centered in the city of Kusinagara, and the Vajji (or Vṛji) confederation, centered in the city of Vaishali...
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    parinirvana of Gautama Buddha was in the region of Rampurva: "I believe that Kusīnagara, where the Buddha died may be ultimately found to the North of Bettiah...
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    the Buddha's Relics at Sanchi (1st century BCE/CE). The Buddha died in Kusinagara, the capital of the Mallakas, who initially tried to keep all the relics...
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  • Mallakas defending the city of Kusinagara, as depicted at Sanchi. The leader of the Mallakas, under siege, by the seven gods, during the War of the Relics...
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    Rājagaha (Sanskrit: Rājagṛha) to the small town of Kusinārā (Sanskrit: Kuśinagara) before the Buddha died there. Before reaching Kusinārā, the Buddha spent...
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    Carved reliefs of Sanchi gateway Satavahana relief regarding the city of Kusinagara in the war over the Buddha's relics, South Gate, Stupa no. 1, Sanchi Bimbisara...
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    "republics" or gaṇasaṅgha, such as Mallakas, centered in the city of Kusinagara, and the Vajji (or Vṛji) League, centered in the city of Vaishali, existed...
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    Pāṭaliputta, Vesāli, Bhoganagara, and Pāvā, to their final destination at Kuśinagara. It was at Pāvā that Cunda, a resident of Pāvā, invited the group to a...
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    Vogel participated in excavations in Gandhara, the Punjab Hill States, Kusinagara and Mathura.[citation needed] In the early twentieth century, Vogel helped...
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    rendition of the narrative leading up to the Buddha's parinirvāṇa in Kuśinagara. One of several sūtras of genetic relation to the Journey Sūtra (T1(2);...
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  • visited Kapilavastu, Varanasi, Vaisali, Devavatara (Kapitha), Sravasti, and Kusinagara, and then lived for three years in the monastery at Nalanda before returning...
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    where Buddha was born; the Deer Park, where Buddha first preached, and Kusinagara, where Buddha entered Nirvana. Two thousand nine hundred and twenty years...
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