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Kushinâgar or Kusinâgar - Kusinārā in Faded - is a rural small town (13 860 inhabitants with the Recensement of 1991) of the state of the Uttar Pradesh, located at 52 kilometers of Gorakhpur and 148 km of Kapilavastu, in India of north. At sixth century BC, known also under the name of Kasia , it was the capital of the kingdom of the Malla.

History

The city is regarded as one of the four holy places of the Bouddhisme. Indeed, at this place, close to the river of Hiranyavati, Bouddha was incinerated after its death, by which it had reached the Parinirvana or complete Nirvâna. Excavations highlighted a certain number of Stûpa S and other buildings which go back to the period between third century BC and the 5th century, that of the prosperity of the city. According to the tradition, large a stupa always visible, known as Râmabhar, rises on the exact place of the cremation of Buddha. The emperor maurya Ashoka did many work of embellishment there.

The city, victim of a raid of the Shvetahûna towards the end of Ve century, was almost destroyed. The three Chinese Buddhist travellers most famous - Faxian, Xuanzang and Yi Jing - give an account of the visit that they made him. Thereafter, its historical role was erased under the Moslem domination and large the stupa was found taken in the forest.

In 1854, H.H. Wilson, officer of Company English of the Indies Eastern, emits suggestion that Kushinâgar and Kasia is only one and even city, which will be checked by Alexander Cunningham during its excavations of 1861 - 1862, by it will show that it is indeed the site of the cremation of Buddha.

Inheritance

Today, Kushinagar is a place of pilgrimage for the Buddhists of the whole world and of many Chinese, Japanese temples, Thai, srilankais were high there as in the other holy places of Buddhism.

See too

Lumbinî | Bodh-Gaya | Sârnâth

External bond

Official site of the district of Kushinagar

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