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London Buddhist Vihara launches centenary celebrations for next year with week-long Vesak commemorations
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Buddhist monks from Sri Saddhatissa International Buddhist Centre; Saddhaloka Temple; Amaravati Buddhist Monastery; Wat Buddhadipa Monastery; Three Wheels Shin Buddhist Temple; Qing Liang Buddhist Temple and London Peace Pagoda
London Buddhist Vihara launched their centenary celebrations for next year (2026) with a week-long commemoration of Vesak last weekend attended by all the leading Buddhist monasteries in the United Kingdom, diplomats, past pupils associations and over 200 observing ‘sil’ on Vesak Day.
Most Venerable Bogoda Seelawimala Thera, Head Monk of the London Buddhist Vihara welcomed the Indian High Commissioner Vikram K. Doraiswami and diplomats from Thailand, Nepal and Myanmar and the Acting High Commissioner for Sri Lanka Manorie Mallikaratchy while Venerable Thawalama Bandula Thero read out a message from the Anagarika Dharmapala Trust in Sri Lanka.
Monks from both, the Theravada and Mahayana schools included those from the Sri Saddhatissa International Buddhist Centre; Saddaloka Vihara; Amaravati Buddhist Monastery; Wat Buddhadipa Monastery; Three Wheels Shin Buddhist Temple; Qing Liang Buddhist Temple and the London Peace Pagoda joined resident monks of the London Buddhist Vihara in chanting sutras.
A performance of Bakthi Ghee by teachers and students of the Dhamma School was part of the Vesak Day proceedings. From Monday onwards past pupils associations of Sri Lankan schools organised events to mark Vesak in the United Kingdom.
India’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Vikram Kumar Doraiswami, opened a plaque at the London Buddhist Vihara commemorating the Resolution moved at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in 1999 by Sri Lanka’s former Foreign Minister the late Lakshman Kadirgamar calling upon the UN to declare Vesak an international day of observance. The Resolution was unanimously adopted the same year by UNGA. With High Commissioner Doraiswami is Most Venerable Bogoda Seelawimala Thera, Head Monk of the London Buddhist Vihara and Chief Sangha Nayake of Great Britain
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