About this place
Place of the Buddha’s parinirvana — the final of the four great life sites.
Pilgrims visit the Mahaparinirvana Temple and Ramabhar Stupa, completing the classical life-circuit.
Where you'll find it
Contemplating
On these routes
Pilgrimage circuits that include this place.
Buddhist
Buddhist Circuit (India & Nepal)
Expanded pilgrimage through Magadha and the Gangetic plain — the four great sites plus early teaching centers.
India & Nepal
Buddhist
Eight Great Places of the Buddha
The classical Attha-mahathanani — four life sites plus four miracle places of early Buddhist pilgrimage.
India & Nepal
Buddhist
Four Great Sites of the Buddha
The classical life-circuit named in the Pali canon: birth, awakening, first teaching, and parinirvana.
India & Nepal
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Other centers and temples in the same tradition.
