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Buddhist Pilgrimage site about Kushinagar

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Kushinagar  place of nirvana Kushinagar or Kusinara is a town and a Nagar Panchayat in the Kushinagar district of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh located around NH-28 and is 52 km east of Gorakhpur city. The Government of Uttar Pradesh has proposed Kushinagar-Sarnath Buddha Expressway to connect Buddhist pilgrimage towns. The expressway will be around 200 km long and wil reduce the distance from both towns from Seven hours to one and half hours. The expressway will also promote easy accessibility from other East UP towns to proposed AIIMS near Gorakhpur. It is an important Buddhist pilgrimage site, where Buddhists believe Gautama Buddha attained Parinirvana after his death. Outside India, it is an International  Buddhist Pilgrimage site . The followers of Buddhism, especially from Asian countries, wish to visit this place at least once in their lifetime the place of nirvana Gautam Buddha Kushinagar                                     

Hotel & Guest House

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The Royal Residency provides a comfortable setting while in Kushinagar. It also features room service, a shopping mall and meeting rooms. A laundry service and a dry cleaning service are just some of the convenient services at the hotel. Those staying at The Royal Residency can enjoy a unique dining experience at the on-site restaurant, conveniently based for those who want to stay nearby when looking for a bite to eat. The hotel is under a 45-minute drive from Gorakhpur Airport. Our team have visited and selected this as one of our recommended hotels in Kushinagar.  At Kushinagar, Lord Buddha breathed his last and was cremated. Hearty hospitality has always been one of the finest traditions of Indian Culture. In Ancient and Medieval India, a person’s hospitality defined high nobility and character. Fortunately these traditions are still alive, and a very few special places epitomize them like no other place can. Lotus Nikko Hotels redefine the standard of comfort and hospitality. It i

restaurants in Kushinagar

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Kushinagar is the place where Buddha left his mortal body Buddha was born, received enlightenment and expired on the full moon day in the month of Baishak, (Baishak / Buddha Poornima. Kushinagar is great pilgrim center for all  Buddhist pilgrims. Many Buddhist countries have built their monasteries at Kushinagar. Everything is changing with the time in this real world. But a city which remains its heritage, culture, value, Buddhism, and tastes of the traditional famous foods at the moment in time, even becomes more popular with the passage of the time. There are many  restauran ts in Kushinagar  and they served good food at your budget and also local eating points on the roadside So this time, I am going through some of the best foods and most famous food joints of Kushi Nagar what/where you can eat/taste there. However, Kushi Nagar is fully packed with a lot of famous restaurants located in top class hotels and posh areas. Still, I’ll share here top traditional, most demanded and main

Meditation park

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Considered to be one of the most ancient cities in Uttar Pradesh, it is believed that Lord Buddha attained salvation or the Mahaparnirvana in Kushinagar. The archaeologists excavated the remnants of that period in Kushinagar in Uttar Pradesh in India. Besides these there are beautiful gardens in Kushinagar.  Famous for Lord Buddha, the monuments and gardens in Kushinagar are also equally beautiful and attract tourists from all over. Indianholiday.com offers online information on Meditation Park, Kushinagar and other tourist attractions

Notable People From Kushinagar

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Sachchidananda Vatsyayan ‘Agyeya’ (सच्चिदानंद हीरानंद वात्स्यायन ‘अज्ञेय’) was a notable Indian Hindi Writer. Ram Nagina Mishra was a former Loksabha M.P. from Kushinagar. Baleshwar Yadav was a former Loksabha M.P. from Kushinagar. Rajesh Pandey is a member of 16th Loksabha from Kushi Nagar (Lok Sabha constituency) and also served as a Member of Legislative Council in Uttar Pradesh. R. P. N. Singh was a former member of parliament from Kushi Nagar (Lok Sabha constituency) from Indian National Congress. He also served as Minister of State for Road and Transport, Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas in Dr. Manmohan Singh Cabinet. He was also a member of many parliamentary committees.

Geography Of Kushinagar

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Kushinagar is situated at 53 km east from Gorakhpur on the National Highway -28, lies between latitude 26° 45´ N and 83° 24´ E. Gorakhpur is the main railway terminus for Kushinagar while air strip of U.P. Civil Aviation is available in Kasia, 5 km. from Kushinagar.

Gautam Buddha Death Place and Parinirvana

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In 1896, Waddell suggested that the site of the death and parinirvana of Gautama Buddha was in the region of Rampurva. However, according to Maha-parinirvana Sutta, the Buddha made his journey to Kushinagar, died there and wherein he was cremated. Modern scholarship, based on archaeological evidence, believes that the Buddha died in Kushinagar, close to the modern Kasia (Uttar Pradesh). Ashoka built a stupa and Gautam Buddha pilgrimage site to mark Buddha’s Death place and parinirvana in Kushinagara. The Hindu kings of Gupta dynasty period (4th to 7th century CE) helped greatly enlarge the Nirvana stupa and Kushinagar site, building a temple with reclining Buddha. This site was abandoned by Buddhist monks around 1200 CE, who flee to escape the invading Muslim army, after which the site decayed over the Islamic rule in India that followed. The British archaeologist Alexander Cunningham rediscovered Kushinagara in late 19th-century and his colleague A. C. L. Carlleyle unearthed the 1,500