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Deekshabhoomi
दीक्षाभूमी
Nagpur, Maharashtra · 21.1282°, 79.0669°
Navayana Buddhist memorial stupaModernmodelled on the Great Stupa at Sanchi
Sacred since
1978 CE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
stupa built 1978–2001
Modern
History & significance
The Nagpur site where B. R. Ambedkar and some 400,000 followers embraced Buddhism on 14 October 1956, the largest mass religious conversion on record; its hollow stupa is central to Ambedkarite Buddhism and draws millions of pilgrims.