This place is located in Varanasi, a city in the modern-day state of Uttar Pradesh in northern India.

Just before attaining enlightenment, he accepted a meal of milk-rice from his wife and grass for his seat from a yavapālaka named Soma.

[1] Over his relics was raised a stupa one league in height, each brick of which was worth one crore (ten million) rupees.

An anāgāmi devotee named Sorata travelled throughout the human world of Jambudvipa, requesting money from the people for the completion of the stupa.

[citation needed] The Great Jarung Kashor Stupa, that was built in the present day Boudhanath, Kathmandu, Nepal, is the renowned stupa constructed by a mother, known as Little Purna and Samvari, and her four sons as a support for the dharmakaya that enshrines relics of the Buddha Kassapa.

[5] It was completed in seven years, then consecrated by the sons who made aspirations to be reborn in Tibet in order to bring and propagate the Buddha's teachings within the northern lands.

[5] The Boudha Stupa was renovated in 2015 after the earthquake, and reconsecrated when the relics of the Shakyamuni Buddha, together with other auspicious substances, were added to the reliquary.