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President presents peace lamp to Buddhist monk
The Himalaya Times, Apr 19, 2013
"The peace lamp would hopefully help allay the magnitude of conflict surfaced between North Korea and South Korea"
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- President Dr Ram Baran Yadav has presented a perennial holy peace lamp (Akhanda Dip) to South Korean Buddhist monk on Friday.
<< THT Online/File Photo
President Dr Ram Baran Yadav
President Dr Yadav handed over the lamp to Buddhist religious preacher Hejen of Dosunsa Monastery based in South Korea at the Presidential House in Sheetal Niwas.
A 80-member delegation of Buddhist monks headed by Hejen had arrived in Nepal from the monastery on the management of Nepal South Korea Lumbini Peace Lamp Expedition Citizen Main Function Committee.
The committee had brought the peace lamp to Kathmandu from Lumbini on Thursday. The lamp festival is set to take place in Korea to mark the Buddha Jayanti by illuminating lamps taken from Lumbini, the birth place of Buddha.
Minister for Foreign Affairs Madhav Prasad Ghimire and Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Ram Kumar Shrestha also expressed their view at the programme.
The peace lamp would hopefully help allay the magnitude of conflict surfaced between North Korea and South Korea, said Buddhist preacher Hejen.
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