On Nepal visit, PM Narendra Modi offers prayers at Maya Devi temple in Lumbini
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PM Modi and Nepalese PM Sher Bahadur Deuba Monday participated in the foundation stone-laying ceremony of the India International Centre for Buddhist Culture & Heritage in Lumbini. The construction of the Buddhist Centre comes decades after most foreign nations, including US, China, Canada, France, Germany and Thailand, among others, built their centres in Lumbini as an instrument of promoting Buddhist philosophy.