page_title: Delhi Ridge
section_title: Buddha Jayanti Park
hierarchical_section_title: Delhi Ridge / Central Ridge / Buddha Jayanti Park
caption_attribution_description: The Buddha statue in Buddha Jayanti Park.
context_page_description: Delhi Ridge, sometimes simply called The Ridge, is a ridge in the National Capital Territory of Delhi in India. It lies in the Northern Aravalli leopard wildlife corridor. The ridge is a northern extension of the ancient Aravalli Range, some 1.5 billion years old. The ridge consists of quartzite rocks and extends from the Southeast at Tughlaqabad, near the Bhatti mines, branching out in places and tapering off in the north near Wazirabad on the west bank of the river Yamuna, covering a distance of about 35 kilometres.
  The Delhi Ridge acts as the green lungs for the city and protects Delhi from the hot winds of the deserts of Rajasthan to the west. It is also responsible for earning Delhi the tag of the world's second most bird-rich capital city, after Kenya's Nairobi.
context_section_description: The Buddha Jayanti Smarak Park is situated in the central part of the Delhi ridge in New Delhi, India. It occupies a stretch of almost a kilometre on the eastern side of Vandemataram Marg, also known as Upper Ridge Road.It was created on the occasion of the 2500th anniversary of Gautama Buddha's enlightenment by Indian architect M. M. Rana. A sapling of the Bodhi Tree from Sri Lanka was planted here  by the then Prime Minister of India Shri. Lal Bahadur Shastri on 25 October 1964.
  On an artificial island in the park stands pavilion with a gilded Buddha statue in it. It was dedicated by the 14th Dalai Lama in October 1993. Each year in May on Vaisakha Full moon day the Buddha Jayanti festival is celebrated here.
caption: Buddha statue in the Buddha Jayanti Park
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