Vishwa Shanti Stupa, Wardha
Vishwa Shanti Stupa in Wardha district, Maharashtra, near Gitai Mandir, is a large stupa of white color. Statues of Buddha are mounted on stupa in four directions. It also has a small Japanese Buddhist temple with a large park. There is a temple near the stupa where prayers are done for universal peace. Opened in 1993,[1] it is one of around 80 Peace Pagodas which have been built around the world.[2] These were a dream of Fujii guruji, inspired by Gandhi, as a reaction to the atomic bombing of Japan, the first, and more well known Vishwa Shanti stupa, being built on Ratnagiri Hill in Rajgir.[3]
- ↑ M. V. Kamath, 'Gandhi's Coolie: Life & Times of Ramkrishna Bajaj, p. 354, Allied Publishers, 1988 ISBN 8170234875.
- ↑ J.A. Kempf, Silicon Valley Monk: From Metaphysics to Reality on the Buddhist Path, Dharma Gates Publishing, 2014 ISBN 0990895106.
- ↑ Aruna Deshpande, Buddhist India Rediscovered, Jaico Publishing House, 2013 ISBN 8184952473.
- Siby K. Joseph, Bharat Mahodaya (eds), Essays in Conflict Resolution, Institute of Gandhian Studies, 2007.
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