Here’s a good review of Lumbini Garden, Nepal.
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The Lumbini Garden was the Buddha’s birthplace. In Sanskrit, Lumbini means ‘the lovely’. It was the family home of his mother, Mayadevi, and she returned here from Kapilavastu (25 km east of Lumbini) to give birth to Siddhartha Gautama, later the Buddha (‘Enlightened One’). The site was described by the Chinese pilgrim Fa Xian and re-discovered in 1896. In 1997 it became a UNESCO World Heritage Site and there is a master plan for a monastic zone by the famous Japanese modernist architect Kenzo Tange. Like the same designer’s plan for the Peace Park in Hiroshima, it seems to have been inspired by the Neo-Baroque. There is a long avenue and a circular canal. But the sacred pool remains a place of exceptional calm.
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Here’s an interesting landmark in Japan, the Atom Bomb Dome!
At the beginning of the Hiroshima
area economically, Hiroshima responded to the need for a central facility
through which to expand trade routes. Plans were drawn up for a commercial
exhibition hall on the banks of the Motoyasu River. Construction was completed
in April 1915, and the new building was named the Hiroshima Prefectural
Commercial Exhibition HMI. It was formally opened to the public in August that
year. In 1921 the name was changed to the Hiroshima Prefectural Products
Exhibition Hall, and again in 1933 to the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial
Promotion Hall. During the war, as Japan’s economic fortunes worsened, the hall
was commandeered for such governmental, quasi-governmental and rationing offices
as the Chugoku-Shikoku Public Works Office, the Hiroshima District Lumber
Control Corporation and others. |
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