Chandigarh, une cité Le Corbusier
Chandigarh est la première ville nouvelle de l’Inde indépendante, à la fois territoire indien et capitale...
Bihar
Bodhgaya
At the age of 29, Siddharta Gautama, Prince of Kapilavastu, abandoned his material and worldly life to find the truth of existence. Under a ficus tree, Siddharta Gautama became the ‘Buddha’, ‘the one who knows’ or ‘the one who is awake’. Buddhism, or the philosophy of the middle way, thus began in Bodhgaya, in the state of Bihar. It now has more than 300 million followers from all over the world. Bodhgaya along with Kushinagar, Lumbini and Sarnath is one of the four holiest Buddhist pilgrimages…
KNOW MORE ABOUT ITNalanda University
Nalanda, a World Heritage Site was one of the first universities in the world which remained active for approximately 800 years, from the fifth to the twelfth century AD. It had up to 2,000 teachers and 10,000 students …
KNOW MORE +Vaishali
Vaishali is one of the sixteen kingdoms of ancient India. It is said that the Buddha visited Vaishali several times and it was not far from there, in Kolhua, that he delivered his last sermon and announced his Mahaparinirvana (his death). To commemorate this event, the Buddhist emperor Ashoka had Kolkua built ‘the lion pillar’, one of the many so-called ‘Ashoka pillars’ …
KNOW MORE +Kesariya
Kesariya is said to be where the Buddha spent his last days before his nirvana. He would also have given here, one of his most important speeches, the “Kalama Sutta” which advocates logical reasoning and questioning opposing blind faith and dogmatism…
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