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Lumbini to be turned into Buddhist ‘Mecca.’

Before stepping down, Nepal’s Maoist government was in a development deal to turn the town of Lumbini into a Buddhist ‘Mecca’ for pilgrimage and Buddhist education. Lumbini is the purported birthplace of the Buddha in Nepal, and the closeness with which the former Maoist government under Prachanda was with China perhaps caused international relations problems […]

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