Useful Links

LUMBINI

World Heritage:

Lumbini, the Birthplace of the Lord Buddha

https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/666/


Publications:

The Sacred Garden of Lumbini Perceptions of Buddha’s birthplace

https://fid4sa-repository.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/3410/1/Lumbini.pdf

Lumbini: the birthplace of Lord Buddha in Nepal, completing the Kenzo Tange Master Plan

https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000220846

Several books that can be viewed or downloaded from the LDT website:

https://lumbinidevtrust.gov.np/page/2_667fd7c6d4959


Website:

Information on Lumbini on the Lumbini Development Trust website

https://lumbinidevtrust.gov.np/page/2_667f837e0eee3

On UNESCO/JFIT excavations led by Durham University

https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/earliest-buddhist-shrine-south-asia-discovered-lumbini-buddhas-birthplace-nepal

https://www.durham.ac.uk/departments/academic/archaeology/research/archaeology-research-projects/lumbini/

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/earliest-buddhist-shrine-excavating-the-birthplace-of-the-buddha-lumbini-nepal/90338647E132E7B20420CCC9C847E237