page_title: Vaishali (ancient city)
section_title: Notable Buddhist sites in Vaishali
hierarchical_section_title: Vaishali (ancient city) / Notable Buddhist sites in Vaishali
caption_attribution_description: お釈迦様の遺骨を最初に納めた８つのストゥーパの１つ。 (2005/01/24 Vaishali, Bihar, INDIA)
context_page_description: Vaishali or Vesali was a city in present-day Bihar, India, and is now an archaeological site. It is a part of the Tirhut Division.
  It was the capital city of the Vajjian Confederacy of, considered one of the first examples of a republic around the 6th century BCE. Gautama Buddha preached his last sermon before his death in c. 483 BCE, then in 383 BCE the Second Buddhist council was convened here by King Kalasoka, making it an important place in both Jain and Buddhist religions. It contains one of the best-preserved of the Pillars of Ashoka, topped by a single Asiatic lion.
  The city finds mention in the travel accounts of Chinese explorers, Faxian and Xuanzang, which were later used in 1861 by British archaeologist Alexander Cunningham to first identify Vaiśālī with the present village of Basarh in Vaishali District, Bihar.
caption: Buddha's ashes Stupa built by the Licchavis, Vaiśālī
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