World’s biggest Stupa at Gujarat: Narendra Modi plans
Gujarat turns into a pilgrim place for all the countries that follow Buddhism, CM Narendra Modi plans to build the World’s biggest stupa, over 100 km from the place Suzuki has chosen for the biggest Maruti plant in North Gujarat. Lord Buddha himself visited many places in Gujarat. This project site Dev ni Mori in Sabarkantha district at Ahmedabad-Delhi National Highway and this is the 5th place in the World where Buddha’s body relics have been found. Here you will get the details about World’s biggest Stupa at Gujarat.
Narendra Modi plans world’s Biggest Stupa Project:
- Project will cost Rs 1,000 crore
- Centred around a 351-ft high stupa
- Towering over a 151-ft statue of Lord Buddha
- Site Dev ni Mori in Sabarkantha district at Ahmedabad-Delhi National Highway
- 23 companies showed interest on this project
- 100 acres of land have been notified
Fifth place in the World where Buddha’s body relics have been found:
According to sources, Lord Buddha himself visited several places in Gujarat. Excavations of stupas and viharas suggest that Buddhism came to Gujarat during his lifetime itself. Chinese traveller Huen Tsang has mentioned about the several monasteries in the Vadnagar-Vijaynagar region and that almost 1,300 monks lived here.
Budda’s relics are at currently kept covered in a silk cloth in a gold-plated casket at the Archaeology department of MS University in Vadodara. Modi is mainly planning for Foreign tourists from the Buddhist world, also big business from South-East Asia economies like Japan and South Korea, etc. Gujarat has shortlisted two companies from China, a country Narendra Modi is visiting next week.
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