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| The Times of India reports :- |
| Nav Nalanda Mahavihara to honour Thich Nhat |
| PATNA: A 300 strong Buddhist team led by internationally renowned French of Vietnamese origin Thich Nhat Hanh will be reaching Bihar on Friday on a Nav Nalanda Mahavihara, a deemed university (unit of the Union ministry of culture), will honour Hanh with a doctorate degree on October 27. Governor R L Bhatia, who is the chancellor of the Mahavihara, will honour him by giving a citation and degree along with another scholar Burmese Ashin Yanishar on October 27 at Nalanda, said Mahavihara director Ravindra Panth. Yanishar is the chancellor of Shitugo International Academy, Sanging in Mynamar. Mahavihara will be celebrating its week-long founder's day from October 21-28 in which Hanh would be honoured on the convocation day on October 27. The Bihar tourism department, in collaboration with state culture department, has organised a special event "Bihar's Indic Spiritual and Cultural Heritage Festival" on the occasion of Diwali festival (October 28) at Nalanda. "National level artists will perform at the open air theatre of the ordanance factory on October 28. The local folk songs and ballet would be one of the highlights of the culture programme," said director, Bihar tourism, Jyoti Kalash. "It would be a very good opportunity to showcase the richness of our culture before the foreign audience which would serve as a catalyst to boost future tourism from these parts of the world to Bihar," he told TOI. The department of tourism has decided to host a special dinner in honour of the visiting guests at Nalanda. Bihar's principal secretary, department tourism, Rashmi Verma recently reviewed the arrangements being made in this regard. 82-year-old Hanh is a monk, poet, teacher and peace maker whose unique 'mindfulness' meditative techniques in daily living have benefited Buddhist practitioners around the world. He served as the chair of the Buddhist peace delegation at the time of the Paris peace talks during the Vietnam war and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Dr Martin Luther King junior in 1967. He is the author of over 50 books in English. At present, he lives in southern France with his community of nuns, monks and lay practitioners. Ahimsa Trust, a Delhi-based non-profit organisation, is co-ordinating with the visiting Buddhist team under the leadership of its director, Shantum Seth. The trust has been working with the support of the United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Volunteers, Australian Aid and from individual donors and the royalty of books of Hanh. | |
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