{"id":2542,"date":"2015-10-26T10:00:46","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T04:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/?p=2542"},"modified":"2015-10-26T10:00:46","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T04:30:46","slug":"matha-kuar-shrine-kushinagar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/matha-kuar-shrine-kushinagar\/","title":{"rendered":"Matha Kuar Shrine, Kushinagar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matha Kuar Shrine<\/strong> – by the side of the road\u00a0is \u00a0a\u00a0colossal\u00a0statue of Buddha locally called Matha<\/strong> Kuar<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0The statue measures 3.05 meter in\u00a0height\u00a0and this carved out one block of blue stone of Gaya region to represent Gautam \u00a0Buddha<\/strong> seated under the Bodhi Tree<\/strong> in a pose known as the Bhumsparsva Mudra<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0which symbolically expresses the supreme moment in the \u00a0Gautam’s<\/strong> \u00a0life just before his enlightenment to \u00a0become the Buddha<\/strong> , when He called upon the earth to bear witness to the\u00a0pities\u00a0performed by him in his previous birth.
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Blue Stone Lord Buddha statue Bhumi Sparsh Mudra<\/p><\/div>
\nDuring Buddha’s lifetime, Kushinara<\/strong> ( Kushinagar), as it was then called, was a small town in the kingdom of the Mallas<\/strong>, surrounded by a thick forest cover. It remained forgotten until the late nineteenth century, when archaeologists rediscovered the site, and began excavations.
\nThe inscription at the base of statue is dates back to the 10th or 11th Century A.D.\u00a0The name of the Stupa implies the \u201cdead prince\u201d<\/strong>.\u00a0The statue was found by the Archaeologist Carlleyle<\/strong> in late 1870s, as broken pieces, after the statue \u00a0being restored the temple was built by Myanmar pilgrims in 1927 to shelter the statue.
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Information on Stone Plate<\/p><\/div>
\nThis place is\u00a0\u00a0is also believed to be the one where Lord Buddha delivered his last sermon.
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Matha Kuar Shrine – by the side of the road\u00a0is \u00a0a\u00a0colossal\u00a0statue of Buddha locally called Matha Kuar.\u00a0\u00a0The statue measures 3.05 meter in\u00a0height\u00a0and this carved out one block of blue stone of Gaya region to represent Gautam \u00a0Buddha seated under the Bodhi Tree in a pose known as the Bhumsparsva Mudra \u00a0\u00a0which symbolically expresses the supreme … →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,19,21,1],"tags":[149,338,339,354,357,397,834,1106,1461,1584,1805,1807,2736,2859],"class_list":["post-2542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-buddhist-monuments","category-pilgrimage","category-religious-belief","category-uncategorized","tag-archaeologist-carlleyle","tag-bhumi-sparsh-mudra","tag-bhumsparsva-mudra","tag-blue-stone-lord-buddha","tag-bodhi-tree","tag-buddha","tag-gautam-buddha","tag-india","tag-kushinara","tag-lord-buddha","tag-matha-kuar","tag-matha-kuar-shrine","tag-stupa","tag-the-mallas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promarktravels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}