Lumbini, Nepal - birthplace of the Buddha, early Dec, 2000





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Picture 1 A view in the Sacred Garden, Lumbini, Nepal
This park is on the grounds where the Buddha was born.
The Ashok pillar, erected about 3CE, marks the spot.


Picture 2 Tibetan prayer flags fly over the pool.


Picture 3 Chris walks around the pool


Picture 4 Chris, gazing at the Pillar


Picture 5 CJ chats with some Nepalese girls under the Bodhi tree


Picture 6 the Ashok Pillar, erected around 3CE


Picture 7 Chris lights incense at the Pillar


Picture 8 A beautiful lotus grows in a pool in Lumbini


Picture 9 A sign relates the early Chinese explorer's notes
on visiting Lumbini, hundreds of years ago.


Picture 10 the entranceway to the Chinese Buddhist Temple at Lumbini


Picture 11 Chinese temple in the complex


Picture 12 a shrine in one of the Chinese buildings here


Picture 13 The eternally burning flame here in Lumbini


Picture 14 CJ, as we walk to the various temples in the Lumbini
area


Picture 15 The entranceway to the Burmese temple


Picture 16 Stupa at the Burmese Temple


Picture 17 Two young pilgrims at the Shri Lanka temple


Picture 18 Chris kneels at an altar in one of the temples


Picture 19 head of the Buddha image here


Picture 20 The Thai Buddhist Monastary here in Lumbini


Picture 21 The temple at the Thai Monastary


Picture 22 the shrine inside the Thai temple


Picture 24 A resident Thai monk instructs students here at the monastary


Picture 25 Another temple here in the temple area


Picture 26 Young Nepali soldiers insist on a shot with CJ


Picture 27 The soon-to-be-huge Japanese Buddhist temple,
75 feet tall, under construction here in Dec 2000.


Picture 28 Chris likes cows.


Picture 29 our travel 'altar' of trinkets from our journey.

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