Buddha was born in Orissa, not Nepal: Scholars.

While the controversy still persists on the birth place of Buddha and the historians are giving more contradictory views in the subject, a high-level Buddhist scholar team from Kolkata under the leadership of a renowned international scholar Prof Satyakam Sengupta on Tuesday strongly asserted that Lord Buddha was born in Orissa.
Speaking at a Press meet at Buddha Mandir Prof Sen Gupta said we have enough evidence to substantiate the claim that Orissa previously known as Kalinga was the real birth place of Buddha. Moreover, during the past two days visit to various places within the boundaries of golden triangle, that is Puri-Konark-Bhubaneswar, they have gathered more evidences in support of their claim and will present the findings in an international seminar to be held in Japan in the last week of March. The team will meet Japanese Culture Minister and apprise him of the fact. An accompanying Buddhist scholar who was born and brought up in Nepal Madhav Sharma said a comprehensive documentation of Buddhist sites, inscriptions and intense research must prove that Buddha was born in Orissa. The team has collected valuable research information and photographs from Kapileswar village area. They have also visited the excavated site at Kapileswar and photographed Buddhist sculptures inside the temple premises. Besides, they have made photo documentation of Bhaskareswar Siva Linga identified as part of an Ashokan Pillar, the Bell Capital and Lion Emblem along with Buddhist cultures of the State Museum. The team also documented relics of Lalitagiri, Ratnagiri, Udayagiri and Dhauli.