Triratna News
Triratna News

Wise men disagree on site of nativity

By Munisha on Mon, 6 Jan, 2014 - 00:35

Wise men disagree on site of nativity

By Munisha on Mon, 6 Jan, 2014 - 00:35At the end of November, a team of British and Nepali archaeologists announced that they had uncovered remains of the “earliest ever Buddhist shrine”, establishing the site of the Buddha’s birthplace in present-day Nepal. Though the story gained a lot of publicity, some found it unconvincing.

The team reported in the UK online archaeological journal Antiquity that they had unearthed a 6th century BC timber structure buried within the Maya Devi Temple in the town...
Western Buddhist Review
Western Buddhist Review

The Tree Shrine at Lumbini

By Dhivan Thomas Jones on Tue, 3 Dec, 2013 - 10:34

The Tree Shrine at Lumbini

By Dhivan Thomas Jones on Tue, 3 Dec, 2013 - 10:34This is more of an ‘editor’s blog’ than an article or review - I’m using the resources available here on The Buddhist Centre Online a bit more. Dhivan (editor, Western Buddhist Review).

There was some fascinating news last Tuesday 26 November – that archaelogists have uncovered a shrine from the 6th c. bce at Lumbini, the site of the Buddha’s birth. (Here’s a link to the BBC version). It’s not often that archaeology, let...