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The '''Eight Holy Places''' are the eight most important places related to life of the [[Buddha]]. They are, | The '''Eight Holy Places''' (Skt. ''aṣṭhamahāsthāna'', Tib. གནས་ཆེན་བརྒྱད་, ''né chen gyé'', [[Wyl.]] ''gnas chen brgyad'') are the eight most important places related to life of the [[Buddha]]. They are, | ||
# | # [[Lumbini|Lumbini garden]], [[Kapilavastu]] | ||
# | # [[Bodhgaya]] | ||
# | # [[Sarnath]], [[Deer Park]] | ||
# | # [[Jetavana]], [[Shravasti]] | ||
# | # [[Sankisa]] | ||
# | # [[Rajagriha]] | ||
# | # [[Vaishali]] | ||
#. | # [[Kushinagara]] | ||
==Further Reading== | |||
*Jeremy Russell, ''The Eight Places of Buddhist Pilgrimage''. New Delhi: Mahayana Publications. 1981. | |||
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Revision as of 20:16, 7 February 2018
The Eight Holy Places (Skt. aṣṭhamahāsthāna, Tib. གནས་ཆེན་བརྒྱད་, né chen gyé, Wyl. gnas chen brgyad) are the eight most important places related to life of the Buddha. They are,
- Lumbini garden, Kapilavastu
- Bodhgaya
- Sarnath, Deer Park
- Jetavana, Shravasti
- Sankisa
- Rajagriha
- Vaishali
- Kushinagara
Further Reading
- Jeremy Russell, The Eight Places of Buddhist Pilgrimage. New Delhi: Mahayana Publications. 1981.