Place
Vaishali
Ancient Buddhist pilgrimage and archaeological site (Ashoka pillar, Stupa and Swastika Monastery) associated with significant events in Lord Buddha's life; in Bihar in India
- Also called Vesali (in Pali), Land of Ambapali (Amrapali)
A place,
and the traditions
recorded there.
Sites, not believers
Site history & evidence
What is documented here
Each kind of evidence on its own row, because they do not add up.
| Evidence | On record | What it shows |
|---|---|---|
| Site date | None recorded | The import holds no date for the site itself. |
| Location | Recorded to the site On the atlas | A coordinate for the place. It locates the site; it does not draw its extent. |
| Dated activity | None recorded | A pin is a place, not an event. What happened at Vaishali, and when, is a separate claim, and this import holds none: it carries site locations, not dated activity. |
Nearby
Places nearby
The nearest this collection holds, measured between recorded coordinates.
What this means
Computed from coordinates, not stated by any source. Nearness is geometry, not a connection: two sites a kilometre apart may never have shared a worshipper, a tradition or a century. Where either coordinate is recorded only to a district, the distance is rounded and says “about”.
-
41 km awayShitla Mata Temple, Patna
Hindu temple in India -
42 km awaySher Shah Suri Masjid
mosque in India -
45 km awayTakht Sri Patna Sahib
one of the 5 Thakts of Sikhism in Patna, Bihar, India -
47 km awayKesaria stupa
Buddhist stupa in Bihar, India -
65 km awayAranya Devi Temple, Arrah
Hindu temple dedicated to Goddess Adishakti in Arrah, Bihar -
78 km awayAhalya Sthan
temple in Bihar -
100 km awayNalanda Mahavihara
ancient Hindu-Buddhist monastery in present-day Bihar, India -
.JPG/330px-Gadhimai_Temple_(2).JPG)
112 km awayGadhimai
Hindu temple in Bara District, Nepal
Connections
How Vaishali connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Recorded events and days 4
What this means
Events Wikidata records in a subject’s history, and the day a festival is kept. Not a complete history, and the day a festival falls on is not when it began.
Does not imply that these are all the events in its history · that Wikidata ranks the events by importance
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- recorded event pillars of Ashoka
- recorded event Ratana Sutta Buddhist sutta found in the Pali Canon's Sutta Nipata (Sn 2.1) and Khuddakapatha (Khp 7)
- recorded event Second Buddhist council council, said to have taken place 70 years after the Buddha’s death, which resulted in the first schism in the Sangha between the Sthaviras and the Mahāsāṃghikas
-
recorded event Vimalakirti Sutra Mahayana sutra describing a lay Buddhist meditator who has attained a very high degree of enlightenment
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
5 statements on this record
- 5 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 1 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
Keep exploring
More places, tradition by tradition
The directory lists every one on record, most widely recorded first.
Where it stands,
and who kept it.