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photongo: Tibetan and Nepali novice Buddhist monks visit the spot where the Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, is believed to have been born at the Maya Devi Temple in Lumbini, Nepal. The Enlightened One is believed to have been born in May 563 BC. More Info (from Lonely
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photongo: Worshippers touch the water in the sacred Maya Devi pond in Lumbini, Nepal. The pond is believed to be where Maya Devi bathed before giving birth to Buddha.
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photongo: A visiting Theraveda monk from Thailand squeezes through a gap in the trunk of a bodhi tree in Lumbini, Nepal. The bodhi tree is near the spot where the Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, is believed to have been born in May 563 BC. Legend has it that only kind