Middle Land

The Middle Land (Majjhima Desa) was the Template:Wiki name for the north-central region of India, the valley of the Ganges and Template:Wiki Rivers, where the Buddha was born and where Buddhism began. In the scriptures, the Middle Land is said to extend in the Template:Wiki to the town of Kajaṅgala, in the Template:Wiki to the Salaḷavatī River, in the Template:Wiki to the town of Setakaṇṇika, in the Template:Wiki to the village of Thūṇa, and its northern borders were marked by the Usīraddhaja Mountains (Vin.I,196). Few of these landmarks can be identified today, but the Middle Land corresponded to the Template:Wiki Indian states of Template:Wiki and Template:Wiki and the lowlands of Nepal. The Buddha believed that it was a Template:Wiki advantage to be reborn in the Middle Land, as indeed it probably was at that time, it Template:Wiki the main centre of the subcontinent’s newly emerging Template:Wiki (A.IV,225).

The Buddha’s 45 years of travelling and wandering took him through an area of about 235,000 square kilometres, making him the most widely travelled of all the great religious teachers. The area in which Template:Wiki taught, by contrast, is about 900 square kilometres. The furthest Template:Wiki the Buddha went which can still be identified is Kankjol (Kajaṅgala, A.V,54) 18 kilometers Template:Wiki of Rajmahal, and the westernmost place is Template:Wiki, 135 kilometers Template:Wiki of Delhi. These two places are nearly 1000 kilometers apart. Popular legends in Sri Lanka and Thailand say the Buddha visited those countries and Nepalese Buddhists believe he visited the Template:Wiki. There is no mention of such visits in the Tipiṭaka and no Template:Wiki that the Buddha ever travelled beyond the Middle Land. See Travels. Template:R www.buddhisma2z.com