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Article: Preservation of Buddha's birthplace provokes disputes at 28th WorldHeritage Committee
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- July 7, 2004
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Preservation of Buddha's birthplace provokes disputes at 28th
World Heritage Committee
SUZHOU, July 7 (Xinhua) -- Whether to build constructions to
protect the birthplace of Sakyamuni, founder of Buddhism, or just to
keep it in its original state aroused furious disputes among
representatives attending the 28th session of the World Heritage
Committee being held in Suzhou, east China's Jiangsu Province.
Located in southern Nepal, Lumbini is a famous Buddhist holy land
as Queen Maya Devi gave birth there to Siddhartha Gautam, later
Sakyamuni, in the sixth century B.C. here. Now the central focus at
Lumbini is the two-floor Maya Devi temple.
Lumbini was listed as a World Cultural Heritage ...