Pilgrimage in India

  Today, after more than twothousandsixhundred years, people still visit the holy places where he was born, where he attained enlightenment, where he delivered his first sermon and where he passed away. People pay respect to the Buddha at these places. We read in the “Dialogues of the Buddha”( Mahå-Parinibbåna sutta, Ch V, 140) that the Buddha, in the night of his passing away....