Kushinagar

Kushinagar is the place where Buddha breathed his last and attained parinirvana on the full moon day of the Vaishakha month.

                                                               Mahaparinirvana temple
The Mahaparinirvana temple is most famous in Kushinagar as it has a 6 meters long reclining statue of Buddha lying on his right side facing the west representing the image of Buddha leaving his soul or attaining Nirvana. 

                                              Statue of Buddha inside Mahaparinirvana temple