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 Vesāli
was the capital of the tribal republic of Vajji and the scene of many
important events in the Buddha's life. The second Buddhist council
was held there about a hundred years after the Buddha's passing.
Today the ruins of Vesāli are spread over a wide area and the most
important of these are a huge stone pillar with a lion capital, a
large stūpa next to it and another stūpa
nearby thought by archaeologists to be the very one erected over the
Vajjian's one-eighth share of the Buddha's ashes. Vesāli is 40
kilometres north of Patna, the capital of the modern Indian state of
Bihar.
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