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Kushinagar (Hindi: कुशीनगर, Kuśīnagar [ kʊʃi nʌɡʌr ː ] ), formerly Kusinara ( Pali: Kusinārā ) is a town in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

Kushinagar is located in northeastern Uttar Pradesh near the border with Nepal in the district Kushinagar, about 50 kilometers east of Gorakhpur and 220 kilometers north-east of Varanasi. By Kushinagar leads the National Highway 28, the nearest train stations are in Deoria (35 kilometers south ) and Gorakhpur. The town of Kushinagar 18,000 inhabitants ( 2001 census).

Meaning the place has reached primarily as one of the four main pilgrimage sites of Buddhism, because according to tradition Gautama Buddha died here, and according to Buddhist understanding Parinirvana.

In Kushinagar, there are the remains of several ancient stupas and monasteries as well as modern temples and monasteries, which were donated by Buddhists of Southeast and East Asia. The Nirvana Stupa dates from the reign of the Gupta ruler Kumaragupta I. ( 414-455 ). It was excavated in 1867 and restored in 1927 by Burmese Buddhists. The adjacent Nirvana Temple houses a six -meter-long gilded statue of the reclining Buddha. Ringsrum are the ruins of four monasteries.

Many remains of the former importance of the town exist as the center of the Malla kingdom and metropolis of the Mauryan Empire in resort. In the 5th century AD, the importance Kushinagars however, fell, and over the centuries became the place into oblivion. Only in the 19th century was rediscovered and repopulated.

The body, have been laid out to the Buddha before his cremation should

Parinirvana Temple

Buddha statue in the Parinirvana Temple