Do you know the four most important Buddhist pilgrimage sites? Here’s s Four Places of Buddhist Pilgrimage in India from Prabhat Tandon. Here’s a great slideshare about each site.
And here’s a summary from the Victoria and Albert Museum.
- Lumbini – the Buddha’s birthplace
- Bodhgaya – where the Buddha sat in deep meditation beneath a pipal (bodhi) tree until he achieved enlightenment
- Sarnath – a deer park where the Buddha gave his first sermon and set the wheel of law into motion
- Kusinagara – where the Buddha passed away (parinirvana)