Arrange the following places associated with the Buddha in chronological order.
A. Sarnath
B. Bodh Gaya
C. Kusinagar
D. Lumbini
E. Sanchi
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → D, B, A, C, E
(D) Lumbini — where the Buddha was born.
(B) Bodh Gaya — where he attained enlightenment.
(A) Sarnath — where he gave his first sermon.
(C) Kusinagar — where he attained nibbana.
(E) Sanchi — not a place of the Buddha’s own life. Asoka distributed portions of the Buddha’s relics and ordered stupas to be built over them, and by the second century BCE a number of stupas, including the one at Sanchi, had been built.
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