Pokhara Peace Pagoda
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Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Thu 5 Apr 2018 22:57
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The World Peace Pagoda, Pokhara   We left our digs for the twenty minute walk
to the pagoda. Lovely views over the lake as we
rounded the corner and then terracing as we went down a fair
few steps.
 Another lot of steps and there it was. Just
a path to follow to reach the far side then up some more steps to the World Peace Pagoda, Pokhara.
  We took a breather whilst we did a spot of
ant watching.
  Through the
gate, up some steps and a native poinsettia.
  At the far corner from the entrance was
the Japanese Temple, just as we passed a lady monk
struck the drum and began chanting. We listened for a while before heading up to
the main level.
   A lovely picture, a chap we don’t know
and a colourful garden.
 After reading some profound words, we
turned..........
 The World Peace Pagoda here in Pokhara, also known as
Shanti Stupa was the first to be built in Nepal and
the world’s seventy-first to be built by Nipponzan-Myohoji.
115 feet in height and 344 feet in diameter, the white,
two-tiered stupa is set high above Lake Phewa (Fewa) at 1100 metres on the
Ananda Hill, the other side of the hill from our digs.
Bimbling around the second tier we passed four statues of the Buddha presented as a souvenirs from different countries: ‘Dharmacakra Mudra’ from Japan, ‘Bodh Gaya’ from Sri Lanka, ‘Kushinagar’ from Thailand and Lumbini from Nepal. Each statue represents important events related to the Buddha and were named according to where they took place. Dharmachakra is placed below the gajur (pinnacle) which signifies the wheel of life, dharma and the teachings of the Buddha. The top of the golden gajur holds the crystal stone from Sri Lanka which symbolises intellect and grace.
We
both posed with Buddha.
It
would help quite a bit if we understood what the plaque meant.....
Isipatana: At present it is named as Sarnath. It is situated near
the most ancient city of Varnasi. Here the perfectly self enlightened Buddha had
turned the wheel of the Dhamma giving his first sermon to the five gentle
ascetic Brahmin group. The obe of the third holiest sacred places of the worldly
people to arouse the highly emotional Dhamma urgency to generate powerful
meritorious feeling to get rid of worldly suffering.
This
symbol of the Buddha turning the wheel of the Dhamma as the first
sermon.
   We sat and enjoyed cloud and crowd
watching for a time.
 The sun made
for a pretty sky.
  We enjoyed
the valley views.
 Then we set
off on the return bimble to our
digs.
ALL IN ALL CLEAN LINES BUT TOO MUCH NOISE TO FEEL SPECIAL FABULOUS VIEWS FROM A PRETTY STUPA |
