Buddha Jayanti 2024 V.S.
A commemorative postage stamp on Gautama Buddha‘s 2511th birthday :
Issued by Nepal
Issued on May 23, 1967
Issued by :
His Majesty’s Government
Postal Services Department
Nepal Philatelic Bureau
Kathmandu, Nepal
Designed by : S. D. Asanta
Type : Stamp, Postal Used
Denomination : 75 Paisa
Colour : Orange and red purple
Size : Pictorial square 2.19 cms. x 2.19 cms.
Perforation : 13 x 13
Paper : Unwatermarked adhesive stamp paper on reels
Number : 5,00000 (½ million)
Sheet : 54 stamps per sheet
Printing Process : Photogravure
Printed in : Nepal, at Jore Ganesh Press Pvt. Ltd., Balaju, Kathmandu
Name : Ramachandra
Born on Ayodhya, Kosala [now in Uttar Pradesh, India]
About :
- Born in Holy Lumbini Zone in Western Nepal in the sixth century B.C. Siddhartha Gautam, over the millennia has been identified as a faith – Buddhism. To-day Buddhism is accepted to be not only a great religion, but also, in its essential beliefs, a universal human ideal cherishable by Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike.
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