{"id":5150,"date":"2011-08-13T22:21:40","date_gmt":"2011-08-14T02:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/?p=5150"},"modified":"2011-08-13T22:21:40","modified_gmt":"2011-08-14T02:21:40","slug":"odisha-governments-plan-for-buddhist-tourism-in-jajpur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/archives\/5150","title":{"rendered":"Odisha government&#8217;s plan for Buddhist tourism in Jajpur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following is an excerpt from <a href=\"http:\/\/dailypioneer.com\/360724\/Govt-targets-Buddhist-tourism-in-Jajpur.html\" target=\"_self\">a report&nbsp; Akshay Rout in Pioneer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>To attract more tourists to Langudi, Kaima, Neulipur, Tarapur and other  hills in Jajpur district, the State Government would spend Rs 14 crore  in four years, said Secretary of Tourism and Culture Department Ashok  Tripathy while he, along with other senior officials, visited these  Buddhist sites on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>For an archeological hotspot, Langudi  wears the tag of obscurity well. Located in Dharmasala tehsil, it is a  sleepy hamlet with a sparse population. But things could change, thanks  to the discovery of a Buddhist Stupa along with many images of different  postures of Lord Buddha. Langudi hit the headlines eight years ago when  several senior historians and archaeologists considered it as the  Puspagiri, as described the famous Chinese traveller Huein Tsang.  However, few tourists have since ventured into this remote hamlet for a  view of the artifacts. But the government would spend money to develop  the Buddhist site, said Tripathy.<\/p>\n<p>Targeting Buddhist tourism in  Jajpur, the Government is going to launch a Buddhist Circuit involving  primary pilgrimage places associated with the life and teachings of Lord  Buddha. Lalitagiri, Ratnagiri, Udayagiri, Langudi, Kaima and Neulipur  are the primary pilgrimage places along with numerous other sites, where  Buddha and the saints travelled, would be parts of the tourist  itinerary, Tripathy said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; The Government would build a 150-feet-high  Buddha statute at Neulapur hill and a 85-feet Buddha statute at Deuli  hill. A 50-feet-high Shiva statute would be built in the Gokarneswat  temple. A 500-meter-long ropeway would be connected from Deuli hill to  Kaima hill, he added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following is an excerpt from a report&nbsp; Akshay Rout in Pioneer. To attract more tourists to Langudi, Kaima, Neulipur, Tarapur and other hills in Jajpur district, the State Government would spend Rs 14 crore in four years, said Secretary of Tourism and Culture Department Ashok Tripathy while he, along with other senior officials, visited these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[717,9,747,381],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buddhist-site","category-district-jajpur","category-monuments","category-orissa-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}