Word: lumbini
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...named Siddhartha Gautama attained enlightenment 2 1/2 millenniums ago and became the Buddha. Today Buddhism is a religion associated with East Asia--with Thailand, China or Japan--where most of the world's Buddhists live. Yet Buddhism began in India at that very spot. The Buddha was born in Lumbini, Nepal, lived in eastern India, attained enlightenment in Bodh Gaya and then wandered the nearby country, preaching and making his first converts. For hundreds of years after his death, as Buddhism spread, pilgrims came from as far away as China and Central Asia to see the places where the master...
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