The Prime Minister will be travelling to Lumbini in Nepal to participate in a ceremony to lay the foundation stone for an \u201c<\/span>India International Center for Buddhist Culture & Heritage\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n Located in: <\/b>Lumbini, Nepal<\/span><\/p>\n Constructed by: <\/b>International Buddhist Confederation (IBC) with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture, Government of India<\/span><\/p>\n Significance<\/b>: This Buddhist Centre will be the first \u2018Net Zero Emission\u2019 building in Nepal.<\/span><\/p>\n Lumbini is a Buddhist pilgrimage site in Nepal.\u00a0<\/span>It is the place where, according to Buddhist tradition, Queen Mahamayadevi gave birth to Siddhartha Gautama at around 563 BCE.<\/span><\/p>\n Lumbini was made a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1997.<\/span><\/p>\n Note<\/b>: He later <\/span>attained enlightenment in Bodhgaya in Bihar and came to be known as Buddha, preached his first sermon at Sarnath and attained Nirvana in Kushinagar in Uttar Pradesh.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It was formed in 2013 as an international Buddhist umbrella body to serve as a common platform for Buddhists worldwide.<\/span><\/p>\n Headquarters: <\/b>New Delhi.<\/span><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>The post is based on the article<\/span> \u201cPM to launch Buddhist Centre work\u201d<\/b> published<\/span> in <\/span>The Hindu <\/b>on<\/span> 16th May 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? The Prime Minister will be travelling to Lumbini in Nepal to participate in a ceremony to lay the foundation stone for an \u201cIndia International Center for Buddhist Culture & Heritage\u201d. What is the \u201cIndia International Center for Buddhist Culture & Heritage\u201d? Located in: Lumbini, Nepal Constructed by: International Buddhist Confederation (IBC)… Continue reading PM to launch Buddhist Centre work<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-184718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700786310,"cached_date":1704880224},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is the \u201cIndia International Center for Buddhist Culture & Heritage\u201d?<\/b><\/h5>\n
What is Lumbini?<\/b><\/h5>\n
What is the International<\/b> Buddhist Confederation (IBC)?<\/b><\/h5>\n