{"id":364,"date":"2013-11-26T10:27:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T10:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/11\/new-shrine-questions-buddhas-date-of-birth.html"},"modified":"2014-07-27T13:36:44","modified_gmt":"2014-07-27T18:36:44","slug":"new-shrine-questions-buddhas-date-of-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/11\/new-shrine-questions-buddhas-date-of-birth.html","title":{"rendered":"New Shrine Questions Buddha&#8217;s Date of Birth."},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.d.nationalgeographic.com\/players\/vplayer-feed\/?guid=9FEBDA47-AA03-958C-398D-7C48AA2534AD&amp;feed=cARxpXbCU3QT\" width=\"500\" height=\"230\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The Buddha may have been born earlier than most historians believe, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2013\/11\/131125-buddha-birth-nepal-archaeology-science-lumbini-religion-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">according to the National Geographic<\/a>. Archaeologists believe they have found evidence of a <a href='https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/library\/buddhism' target='_blank'>Buddhist<\/a> shrine dating to around 550 BCE. The shrine is in Nepal at the Lumbini pilgrimage center where the Buddha was supposedly born and is the oldest ever found.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s another article about the discovery <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/11\/25\/world\/asia\/buddha-birthplace-buddhist-shrine\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">from CNN<\/a>\u00a0and one<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-25088960\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> from the BBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Buddha may have been born earlier than most historians believe, according to the National Geographic. Archaeologists believe they have found evidence of a Buddhist shrine dating to around 550 BCE. 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