UTTAR PRADESH in India—the land where Lord Buddha grew up and discarded His worldly treasures to go in search of enlightenment, where He delivered His first sermon and performed great miracles, where He preached the philosophy of the eightfold path and finally embraced liberation from the cycle of life and death!
A visit to the Buddhist Circuit in Uttar Pradesh, India, is the trip of a lifetime.
Though Buddhism is not widespread in India, the sacred places related to the life of the Buddha are important destinations for pilgrims, and continue to draw the faithful and the inquisitive from all over the world.
The most significant destinations in the Uttar
