The ICOMOS AGA2025 will take place in Lumbini, the Birthplace of Lord Buddha, World Heritage property, in Nepal. The formal events of the AGA2025 will take place between 11 October 2025 and 19 October 2025.

Lumbini, the Birthplace of Lord Buddha, was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1997 under criteria (iii) and (vi). “Siddhartha Gautama, the Lord Buddha, was born in 623 B.C. in the famous gardens of Lumbini, which soon became a place of pilgrimage. Among the pilgrims was the Indian emperor Ashoka, who erected one of his commemorative pillars there. The site is now being developed as a Buddhist pilgrimage centre, where the archaeological remains associated with the birth of the Lord Buddha form a central feature”.