Visits the Buddha's parinirvana site
· Mahaparinirvana Temple area, Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh, India
Wikimedia Commons · Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 · file The Ashokavadana states that Upagupta took Ashoka to Kusinagari, where the emperor honored the place associated with the Buddha's final nirvana. The event is preserved in later Buddhist literature. Its assignment to 249 BCE is conventional rather than independently epigraphically dated.
