tallest statue of Lord Buddha will be installed at Sarnath, the world-famous sacred place for Buddhists.The 80 ft tall bust will be installed at Thai Buddha Vihar premises in Sarnath possibly by next year. The construction, which is going on in full swing, is on the verge of completion.Sarnath, a sacred place and prime tourist attraction as part of Buddhist circuit, would advance more tourism after...
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Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, will visit Gulbarga for two days from December 19. He will deliver spiritual discourses at the Siddarth Buddha Vihar on the outskirts of the city. Sources toldhere on Tuesday that the Dalai Lama, who consecrated the idol of Lord Buddha here and performed religious rituals in January this year, had expressed the desire to visit the Buddha Vihar once again. Senior...
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Buddha unveils twin strategies to tackle MaoistsBuddha unveils twin strategies to tackle Maoists...
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of the world’s tallest Buddha statues will soon be unveiled at Sarnath, the pilgrimage centre near Varanasi where he had delivered his first sermon.The Thai government-funded 100-foot sandstone structure, at a Thai monastery in Sarnath, is similar to Afghanistan’s two Bamiyan statues, which were the world’s tallest Buddha images till they were destroyed by the Taliban in March 2001.The Sarnath bust...
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leaves in his paintings have a story to tell, an emotion to convey and a mood to recall. The profusion of leaves in all his paintings is deliberate; but artist Suresh Buddha says his works and the leaves that adorn them stem from a feeling of oneness with nature and is not just a manifestation of a distinct style that he has painstakingly strove to perfect.Buddha’s paintings in four series — Foliage,...
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Speaking at the Seagull Bookstore on Friday evening, Gombrich charmed the small gathering of academics, students and fellow enthusiasts with a witty account of how and why he went about writing the book.Even after spending almost four decades studying, teaching and writing on Buddhism, Gombrich remains something of a radical academic. He admits, with a touch of wry humour, that his work will probably...
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looking at oil paintings featuring Lord Buddha at an exhibition organised by Guvvala Kennedy in Rajahmundry...
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PATNA:Ongoing work on the Buddha Memorial Park in Patna will be completed by mid-2010.This was announced by chief minister Nitish Kumar while inaugurating the 40thanniversary of Vishwa Shanti Stupa atop Ratnagiri Hills in Rajgir on Sundayevening.The park is coming up on a Fraser Road plot where onceBankipore Jail was located. The state government has planned to put the casketcontaining ashes of Lord...
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VARANASI:Sarnath, the place where Buddha preached his first sermon centuries ago afterattaining enlightenment in Bodh Gaya, reverberated with Buddhist chants andreligious activities during the 78th anniversary celebrations of Mulagandha KutiVihara, organised by the Maha Bodhi Society of India onMonday.Buddhist monks and other followers of Buddhism from differentparts of the country and abroad took...
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BEIJING:Mahatma Gandhi was a great visionary who taught the world many lessons. But histhoughts provide no answer to certain issues like international trade and globalenvironment problems, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen told a conference here onWednesday."Mahatma raised a different set of issues," he said whilereplying to a question asked at a conference on environment in Beijing aboutwhether Gandhian...
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