Consistent with the longstanding camaraderie between India and Bhutan, Ugyen Dorji, the House Minister of Bhutan, reacted to the Worldwide Buddhist Confederation internet hosting the first-ever two-day World Buddhist Summit in New Delhi.
Through the opening session, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed main Buddhist practitioners and specialists from around the globe.
What the Indian Prime Minister Mentioned
In his speech, centered round Buddhism and local weather change, the Indian Prime Minister additionally added that the Buddha preached abandoning warfare, defeat, and victory for everlasting peace. On local weather change, he stated: “The trail of Buddha is the trail of the longer term and the trail of sustainability. Had the world adopted Buddha’s teachings, it could not have confronted the issues of local weather change.”
“The World Buddhist Summit is being hosted at a time when India has accomplished 75 years of its independence and is celebrating the ‘Amrit Mahotsav’ of its independence. India additionally has big targets for its future in addition to new resolutions for world welfare on this ‘Amrit Kaal’. Right this moment, India has taken new initiatives on a number of points on the earth. And our largest inspiration behind these initiatives is Lord Buddha,” Modi added.
Organizers Communicate
Sharing particulars concerning the occasion, the organizers advised Newsweek: “The summit aimed to deal with vital world points and generate coverage suggestions by discussions between eminent students, Sangha leaders, and Dharma practitioners from numerous areas, primarily based on the common values of Buddha Dhamma.”
The 14th Dalai Lama arrived and addressed the summit on the second day. “A complete of 615 delegates from 30 international locations, together with 170 overseas delegates, participated within the occasion. The discussions centered round discovering Buddhist options to modern challenges. Total, the first-ever World Buddhist Summit in 2023 was thought-about a terrific success in each qualitative and quantitative phrases,” the organizers added.
A few of the famend delegates on the occasion included Prof. Dr. Robert A. F. Thurman, Dr. Lobsang Sangay, Dr. Damenda Porage, Prof. Chandima Wijebandara, and Prof. Victor Wee Eng Lye. Among the many overseas Sangha leaders had been Ani Namgyal Lhamo from Bhutan, The Padma Acharya Karma Rangdol from Bhutan, Dr. Yon Seng Yeath from Cambodia, Acarya Sumati Sunyo from Nepal, Ihalamillewe Rathanapala Nayake Thero from Sri Lanka, Domyung from South Korea, Dr. Pornchai Pinyapong from Thailand, and Dr. Thich Giac Dung from Vietnam.
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House Minister of Bhutan Reacts
Talking solely to Newsweek, Ugyen Dorji, Minister of House Affairs, Bhutan, reacted to the first-ever World Buddhist Summit organized by the Worldwide Buddhist Confederation (Buddhist umbrella physique serving as a typical platform for Buddhists worldwide) saying: “India is the birthplace of Buddhism, and it is just becoming that the primary World Buddhist Summit is being hosted in and by India.”
“Applications equivalent to this assist promote the Buddhist rules of compassion, peace, concord, and interdependence, which could provide a recent strategy to fixing world challenges like local weather change, warfare, and conflicts. The Buddhist lifestyle will survive so long as the rules stay related. I want to congratulate the IBC for organizing the first-ever World Buddhist summit. As a rustic that prides itself in being the final bastion of Mahayana Buddhism, we’re immensely joyful to know that India, our closest good friend, is organizing this summit,” the minister added.
The summit, which was organized across the theme “Responses to Up to date Challenges: Philosophy to Praxis,” was seen as a hit