An archaeological site displaces communities in the district in which the Buddha was born
Indian Prime Moinister Narendra Modi and his Nepali counterpart Sher Bahadur Deuba visit Lumbini to mark Buddha Jayanti on 16 May. All photos:…
A gory battle scene from the Mahabharata depicted in a Nepali painting from the 1800s. Photo: harekrsna.com Even eleven years after it was first…
It is easy to be disappointed by Lumbini. Scruffy, dusty and unbearably hot this time of year, it looks from the outside like a desolate…
When the Burmese Buddhist Secretary-General of the United Nations, U Thant, visited Nepal in 1967 he flew to Lumbini for a pilgrimage and said:…
Earth movers are at work trying to make up for lost time in completing what will be the Gautam Buddha International Airport . The…
