Ramabhar Stupa is a Buddhist pilgrimage site situated in Kushinagar district in Uttar Pradesh state. It is at this spot, that Lord Buddha attained Parinirvana. It is considered an international pilgrimage destination by Buddhists. Buddhists from Asian countries would love to visit this stupa, at least once in their lifetime.

Ramabhar Stupa Where Gautama Buddha Attained Parinirvana

Kushinagar is also known as Kushinagara. This stupa is believed to be built over a portion of the Lord Buddha’s ashes by the Malla people, at the exact spot where God Buddha was cremated.

To mark Buddha’s parinirvana, Great Emperor Ashoka built a stupa and pilgrimage site at Kushinagara.

The Hindu rulers who reigned from the fourth to the seventh century (belonging to the Gupta Dynasty), helped in enlarging this site; they built a temple with the statue of the reclining Buddha. This statue inside the Parinirvana Stupa, located behind the main Parinirvana Temple, is 6.10 meters long.

Then, the site was abandoned around 1200 CE, when Buddhist monks fled to the site, to escape from the invading Muslim army.

Alexander Cunningham, a British archaeologist, rediscovered the Kushinagaram site in the late 19th century  A. C. L. Carlleyle, Cunningham’s colleague, unearthed the one-and-a-half millennium-year-old Buddha statue in 1876.

Ramabhar Stupa or Ramabhar Stupa alias Mukutbandhan-Chaitya, is the cremation place of Lord Buddha. This cremation site is one and a half kilometers east of the main Nirvana Temple. It is situated on the Kushinagar – Deoria road.

How Do I Go to Ramabhar Stupa?

The nearest airport to this stupa is Kasia, around five kilometers from Kushinagar.

Lucknow, the capital of the state of Uttar Pradesh, is around 300 plus kilometers from the Kushinagar stupa site.