Nepal Requests Korea To Change The Name Of Buddha's Birth Place

Nepal’s Ambassador to Korea Kamal Prasad Koirala has written a letter to President Lee Myung-bak requesting him to change the erroneous information in South Korean textbooks regarding the birth of Lord Buddha.The four-page letter The Korea Times has obtained exclusively states that Lord Buddha was born in Lumbini and that Lumbini is a part of Nepal. “Most humbly I beg to bring to your kind notice the factual accuracy about the birthplace of Lord Buddha Shakyamuni which has been for many years and by many scholars has been (factually mistaken)....

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Indonesian Buddhist Population

According to the national censes conducted in 2010, the population of Indonesian stands at 237,641,326 and of this figure the number of Buddhist numbers 1,703,254 which is 0.72% of the total population. Facts about Buddhist in Indonesia- 1,500,475 reside in cities while 202,779 come from villages/rural areas- DKI Jakarta has the most number of Buddhist with (317,527) or 3.30% of the city's population- North Sumatera comes in 2nd place with 303,546 followed by Western Kalimantan and Banten with 237,741 and 131,222 respectively- Number of Buddhist...

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Rock Music In Upcoming Buddhist Festival

The youth rock Band Dhamma Wings is ready to electrify the audiences with their mystical performance at the Buddha Festival 2012. The contemporary trend of rock music will be blended with the Buddhist culture and heritage in a three-hour show in the four-day Buddha Festival at Nagpur.Nagpur Buddhist Centre ( NBC), a unit of Triratna Boudha Mahasanga is organizing the festival from January 26 at Deekshabhoomi, Nagpur. The attraction for this festival's archaic ambience would be a 50-feet high structure, which is conceptualized by artist and stage...

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Taiwan's New Buddha Memorial Hall

A Buddha memorial hall built by the Fo Guang Shan Monastery was unveiled December 25,2011 in the southern port city of Kaohsiung, attracting more than 20,000 visitors eager for a peek at one of the grandest Buddha halls in Taiwan.With funding entirely from the private sector, the five-story memorial hall was unveiled earlier in the day after nine years of construction.The 4,000 ping (13,240 square meter) establishment, which has eight stupas, 48...

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Buddhist Concert

Photos gallery of a Buddhist concert held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on December 21st 20...

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