The web site for India’s Buddhist cultural centre. (Express picture by Yubaraj Ghimire)
The building of the ‘India International Center for Buddhist Culture & Heritage’ — to be undertaken by the International Buddhist Confederation (IBC), India, with monetary help from the Ministry of Culture — comes many years after most international nations, together with US, China, Canada, France, Germany and Thailand, amongst others, constructed their facilities in Lumbini as an instrument of selling Buddhist philosophy.
Modi’s go to and his laying the muse stone for the Buddhist Culture Center — estimated to value INR 1 billion and take three years to finish — will mark India’s first try to develop sturdy linkages with Nepal’s Buddhist heritage websites.
Sources in Kathmandu stated the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) will signal two Memoranda of Understanding with authorities in Nepal — one on establishing the Dr BR Ambedkar Chair for Studies on Buddhism at Lumbini University and one other on a Chair Professor at Kathmandu University.
India’s Ministry of Tourism has collaborated with Nepal to construct a trans-national Buddhist Tourist Circuit to hint the footsteps of Buddha, ranging from Lumbini and concluding at Kushinagar. An worldwide airport was just lately inaugurated at Kushinagar.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
