[Buddha-l] This year's Mahakumbhmela

[Jo]

Happens every 144 years. Last time it happened Gen. Grant was President. 
Although it is not a Buddhist mela, Zuangzhang is said to have visited it,
so there's the Buddhist ref. for this list. 
One wonders if it was going on in the Buddha's time-I sort of doubt it. This
is one of the better articles I've seen on this vast pilgrimage-written by a
Muslim novelist.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2013/03/04/carnival-of-the-soul-at-ind
ia-s-maha-kumbh-mela.html 
 or
 http://tinyurl.com/a7royu4  

Joanna