Buddha was born as Siddhartha Gautama in Lumbini, Nepal approximately 2,500 years ago. Buddha, Known as the Lord of Asia, was born in Lumbini, Nepal during the full moon day in the month of Baisakh in 623 BC. He was born under a sal (Shorea robusta) tree when Mayadevi was going to her maternal town on the occasion of delivery Yeah Nepal is the country with the highest mountain Everest. Paali is the language spoken by Buddha. palitext/subpages/lan_lite.htm His techings , proverbs, Tripitak , quotations are all found in Nepalese language presently. I give you more information on Lumbini here: its important-- In December 1980, a team of scholars from U.S.A. and Nepal, under the leadership of Dr. J.H. Hutchison, of which other members were Dr. James Munthe, Mrs. Dr. K. Munthe, Dr. R.M. West and Mr. Vishnu Dāńgol, T.U., fossil remains of Ramapithecus were found in a place near Butwal on the bank of the river Tināu attached to the rocks cliff. A piece of the upper left jaw which is 1 cm. in width and more than 1 cm. in length is kept in the Natural Museum in Kathmandu. It was dated approximately eleven million years old on the basis of palaeomagnetic dating method. This hominoid finding is own as the oldest in Asia and the second oldest in the world. Its life style and civilization was similar to the Kenyapithecus and Brahmapithecus of Asia. Having been great forest area the pre-historic men used to live by hunting and gathering wild fruits in the neighborhood of Lumbini.
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