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T H E
FOUR HOLY PLACES OF
BUDDHISM

AN ADDRESS BY PERCEVAL LANDON TO THE
WEN YU HUI, LADIES NIGHT, 4 FEBRUARY 1926
"Ever since the Buddha entered into Nirvana, the four great sites have been....handed down by unbroken tradition-the place where the Buddha was born; the place where he became a Lo-han; the place where he preached the Faith; and the place where he passed away."
                                           Fa-hsien (406. A.D.)

I
The Place of the Birth
RUMMINDEI     (In Nepal)
Kapilavastu, the Capital of Prince Suddhodana, the father of Gautama The Lumbini Gardens, in the village of Paderiya about ten miles east of Kapilavastu, where Maya, on her way to her father's house at Devadaha, gave birth to Gautama. The pillar set up by the Emperor Asoka 2176 years ago Its rediscovery in 1896. The inscription. An early sculpture representing the Birth. The present condition of the site.

II
The Place of Enlightenment
BUDDHGAYA     (in Bihar)
The Diamond Throne. Asoka's temple and the Railing. The present temple and the "Bodhi Tree". The copy outside Peking known as WuT'aSze. The Struggle with Mara and the Attainment. The Lamaic mass said there by the Tashi Lama in 1905.

III
The Place of the First Teaching
SARNATH     (near Benares)
The best-known of the "Places". The great Stupa and the Lion Capital of Asoka. Ruins of the Vihara. The first Teaching, or "TUrning of the Wheel of the Law".

IV
The Place of Death
KASIA     (in Oudh)
The ancient Kusinara. A lost village, 32 miles east of Gorakhpur. The Stupa and the Recumbent Buddha. The mourning Yasodhara. The story of the Maha-pari-nirvana.