Category: Sarnath

Guide to Sarnath Buddhist Complex

By kevinstandagehotography on April 22, 2020 • ( 12 Comments )

Historical Context Sarnath is one of the four most important Buddhist pilgrimage sites in the world, the other three being Lumbani (where Buddha was born), Bodhgaya (where Buddha attained enlightenment), and Kusinagar (where Buddha died). Siddhartha Gautama was born to a royal family of the Shakya dynasty sometime […]

Sarnath Archaeological Museum

By kevinstandagehotography on April 20, 2020 • ( 8 Comments )

The Archaeological Museum at Sarnath is the ASI’s oldest site museum, and is one of the most important in India. Plans to build a museum to house, study and display the antiquities found at Sarnath was initiated in 1905 by Sir John Marshall, the then Director General of […]