Lumbini Peace Pagoda
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Wed 11 Apr 2018 22:57
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Lumbini Peace
Pagoda
 Standing at the Eternal Flame looking
toward the Peace Pagoda. Sun getting hotter all the
time, we decided to take a tuk tuk, which, in itself was an adventure.
   The Peace
Pagoda as we got nearer.
  The beautiful lily
pond was a lovely surprise.
   The information
stone reads (mistakes and all): Lumbini Peace Pagoda. This Peace
Pagoda has been built by Nipponzan Myohoji. Buddhist order founder by the Most
Ven’ Nichidatsu Fuji of Japan through contribution of devotees in Nepal and
Japan. The construction of the peace pagoda all over the world was initiated by
the Most Ven’ Fujii Guriji after feeling the tragic scene of atomic bome in
Hiroshima and Nagasaki of Japan at the end of World War II.
The Peace Pagoda is erected
according to the teaching of the Lotus Sutra to disseminate love and peace and
to create the pure land on the eart.
Lord Budda’s relics have been
enshrined on the foundation stone and at top of the Peace
pagoda
Technical date
Designed by Dr. M. Ohoka
Japan
Structural plan by Manohar
Rajbhandar and associates, Kathmandu
Overall height: 41
m
Base Diameter: 59
m
Dome Diameter: 20
m
Building
Materials
Over all concrete Structure with
brick and moter decoration. Buddha Statue and Kota: Made of bronze plated with
gold. Heian Bijutsu, Japan.
Cement: 900
m/ton
T/S Reinforcement: 411
m/ton
Marble Stone: 27000 s/ft (from
Rajasthan, India)
Construction period: 7
years
Nipponzan Myohoji Lumbini
Dojo
   The shrines on the first
tier.
 Looking from the back of the pagoda,
an area protected for wildlife.
 Looking from the
front, we see our tuk tuk man waiting for us despite not asking him to.
Just visible at the far end of the path is the entrance to Buddha’s
birthplace.
 Looking to the
right, there are plans to build five luxury hotels somewhere just beyond
the ‘to be finished’ lookout tower and a refuge capable of bedding down a
thousand pilgrims........
 Bear under the
main Buddha shrine.
 So pleased we visited the Peace Pagoda.
 ALL IN ALL PEACEFUL TO SEE ON
OUR OWN
SIMILAR TO POKHARA WITH A LOVELY VIEW TOWARD THE
TEMPLE |