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Mayadevi Temple

Lumbini in Nepal houses the Maya Devi Temple, regarded as the Buddha’s birthplace. It is one of the oldest Buddhist pilgrimage sites in Nepal, believed to have been established between the 6th century and BCE. In the third century BCE, the site was declared sacred by Emperor Ashoka, who built a temple made of burnt bricks to shrine the relics. In 2013, during rescue excavation, older remains of a tree shrine and preliminary archaeological evidence for the pre-Mauryan age were also found, which indicates the origination of the first temple right after the death of Buddha.

The site has undergone several restorations, with a notable one being done by Keshar Shumsher in 1939, which involved excavation as well. Lumbini Development Trust reconstructed the current temple in 2003