The most noted and the essential temple in the commence reveres the conventional area of Buddha’s introduction to the world. The Maya Devi temple is one of the significant attractions of Lumbini Surrounding the temple in the sacred garden, you can also see ancient ruins of stupas, the sacred pool and maroon- and saffron-robed monks congregating under a Bodhi tree adorned with prayer flags. .The later temple is a white building that ensures the correct spot of Buddha’s introduction to the world, indicated by a marker stone. The Bodhi tree is clearly the tree where Maya Devi rested in the shade while she was voyaging. It was there that she started giving birth and took a custom dunk in the adjacent lake, which is accepted to be where Buddha scrubbed down as well.
Around 563 BC, the Buddha Siddhartha Gautama is believed to have been born at the site of Lumbini. His mother, Maya Devi, was a Koliyan princess married to Suddhodana. In the Shakyas tradition, a tribe of rice-farmers near the India-Nepal border, the pregnant Queen Maya left Kapilavastu for her father’s kingdom to give birth. However, in Buddhist tradition, Buddha was born underneath a sal tree in Lumbini during the journey.
The original Maya Devi Temple was built during the Emperor Ashoka’s visit to Lumbini around 249 BC, using burnt bricks to safeguard the Nativity Sculpture and Marker Stone where Maya Devi had given birth. This temple was rediscovered in 1896 by General Khadga Shamsher and Dr. Anton Fuhrer, who also interpreted the Ashokan Pillar, recognising Lumbini as Buddha’s birthplace.
The mound of the original temple was excavated further by Sir Kaiser Shumsher, reconstructing the temple in 1939. The present Maya Devi Temple was built in 2003 by the Lumbini Development Trust.
