First Buddha Stupa
in Ukraine
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Buddhist Order Nipponzan Myohoji
in Ukraine
The Project is initiated by Venerable Junsei Terasawa, Teacher of the Buddhist order Nipponzan Myohoji in the Ukraine, Russia and Central Asia.
Venerable Terasawa was one of the leaders of the non-violent movement for peace in Europe in the 1980's, which resulted in the end of the Cold war and the demolition of the Berlin wall.
By his initiative, first stupas, or Peace Pagodas, were constructed in Europe.
One of them is located in the centre of London by River Thames, the other - in the town of Milton Keynes (Great Britain).
In 1988, he became the first Buddhist monk who officially conducted a prayer in the Red Square and thereafter entrusted a particle of the Sacred Relics of the Buddha to President Mikhail Gorbachev during an International Summit in Kremlin.
Junsei Terasawa was one of the organisers of a peace camp on the border of Iraq and Saudi Arabia during the Persian Gulf war.
In the XX century, after the end of the Second World War, the Buddhist order of Nipponzan Myohoji headed by the Most Venerable Nichidatsu Fujii, its Founder and Preceptor, continued the tradition of erecting stupas world-wide, in pursuit of the aversion of a global catastrophe of a possible nuclear was and mutual annihilation.
The tradition of erecting stupas became one of the central pillars of national revival in India, after it gained independence under the guidance of Mahatma Gandhi.
When global transitions reached Soviet republics, Junsei Terasawa took part in the August-1991 revolution in Moscow and afterwards became Teacher of the first in the post-soviet history Budddhist community-sangha.
The active role of that sangha and its prayer accompanied by the sounds of drums in the mid of every turning momentum of that dramatically changing history.
Numerous peace-making actions during the first and second wars in Chechnya, Irak, Middle East, Pakistan to the Orange revolution in the Ukraine - became a divine symbol of positive changes happening in our consciousness.
Ukraine, which experienced the Chernobyl catastrophe, became the first country in history to volunteerly abandon nuclear weapons. The realisation of the Project of the Sacred Kourgan - Stupa of Peace will positively embody these virtues for the sake of a new world!
March Of Mothers Compassion in the Grozniy, Chechen republic, 1995
Peace Pagoda in London, 1985
Ven. Junsei Terasava
Most Ven. Nitidatsu Fujii
Pakhistan -India praying March for peace, Taxila, Pakhistan, 2002
Intereligious peace mission in Iraq, Samara, 2003
Kalinga Stupa, built by Nipponzan Myohoji
in Orissa, India
Initiator of the Project