Puskarini or Holy Pond where the Buddha’s mother took the ritual dip prior to his birth and where he, too, had his first bath.

The early history of Lumbini is also documented in the accounts of the famous Chinese traveller, Fa Hien (4th century AD) and Hsuan Tsang (7th century AD) respectively.
The site and it’s environ is blessed with a rich, lush surrounding of flora and fauna.Bodh Gaya:Prince Gautama Siddhartha attained Nirvana (enlightenment) in Bodh Gaya, Bihar. He sat and meditated under a Bodhi tree (Ficusreligiosa) and after 49 hours got an insight to the answers he had sought. Over time, the place came to be known as Bodh Gaya. He then travelled to Sarnath where he began his teachings of Buddhism.
The common belief is that 250 years afterthe Buddha attained Enlightenment, Emperor Ashoka of the Maurya dynasty in India visited Bodh Gaya and is considered to be the founder of the original Mahabodhi temple.Bodh Gaya has been developed as an international place of pilgrimage since 1953 and attracts a continuous stream of pilgrims from all over the world every year.

Sarnath:After attaining enlightenment, Lord Buddha delivered his first sermon at Sarnath which is a small village in Uttar Pradesh, India, 13 kilometres north-east of Varanasi. It was here that Lord Buddha set the “Wheel of Dharma”Â in motion and formed the first Sangha to promote his thoughts.
Sarnath means “Lord of the Deer”Â and refers to an old Buddhist tale in a King intends to kill a doe when the Bodhisattva (deer) offers his life to the