Where Did Jesus Die? — Page 200
? 200 buried, but was cremated. Modern research has discovered the place where Buddha died. He died and was cremated at Kusinagara (in Oude) at the age of 80, in the year 543 B. C. , his relics distributed among a number of contending claimants, and monumen- tal tombs erected to preserve them. 1 Dr. T. W. David writes: Pre-eminent among these is the discovery by Mr. William Peppe on the Birdpur estate adjoining the boundary between English and Nepalese territory, of the stupa of cairn erected by the Sakia Clan over their share of the ashes from the cremation pyre of the Buddha. 2 Dr. Herman Oldenberg writes: Buddha died in Kusinara. Towards the sunrise the nobles of Kusinara burned Buddha’s body before the city gates with all the honours that are shown to the relics of univer- sal monarchs. 3 It is evident, therefore, that Buddha, who died at Kusinagara or Kusinara, and was cremated, cannot be the occupant of the 1. Chambers Encyc. Revised Edition, Buddhism. London, 1880. 2. Encyc. Britt. edition Buddhism. 3. Oldenberg: Buddha, p. 203.