Modern · Buddhist · India

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.

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Sources

Wikipedia

coordinates: wikipedia-2026-08-27 · sources retrieved 2026-08-26 · dynasty page: Modern