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Buddhist pagoda in Lumbini, Nepal
World Peace Pagoda, also called Nipponzan Peace Pagoda, is a Buddhist monument in Lumbini, Nepal. It was designed and built by Japanese Buddhists at a cost about a million US dollars. The Pagoda acts as the starting point on the central axis of the Lumbini Master Plan, the other end being the Mayadevi Temple. The distance from the pagoda to the temple is about 3.2 km. The stairs in stupa lead to three different levels. The stupa is whitewashed and the floor is stone-paved. It has four large golden statues of Buddha facing four directions. Type: stupa. Coordinates: 27.4980 N, 83.2740 E. Sources: Wikipedia and Wikidata (Q100989576). License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (text), CC0 (data).
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