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Peace Pagoda

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A Peace Pagoda is a Buddhist stupa; a monument to inspire peace, designed to provide a focus for people of all races and creeds, and to help unite them in their search for world peace. [1]

84 relations: Ampara, Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Bandarawela, Battersea Park, Bhubaneswar, Birmingham, Brisbane, Buddhism, Canada, Chiba Prefecture, Comiso, Dalai Lama, Darjeeling, Dhamma Talaka Pagoda, Franklin County, Massachusetts, Galle, Garoza, Ozolnieki Municipality, Gautama Buddha, Great Smoky Mountains, Greater London Council, Hiroshima, Humayun's Tomb, India, Indraprastha Park, Jammu and Kashmir, Japan, Japan Center (San Francisco), Japantown, San Francisco, Jeju Island, Kumamoto, Ladakh, Ladywood, Leh, London, Lotus Sutra, Lumbini, Mahatma Gandhi, Milton Keynes, Monastery, Munich, Nagasaki, Narita, Chiba, NATO, NDTV, Nepal, New Delhi, Nichidatsu Fujii, Nipponzan-Myōhōji-Daisanga, Osaka, Ozolnieki Municipality, ..., Petersburgh, New York, Rajgir, Rajgir hills, Relic, Rewata Dhamma, River Thames, Salgale Parish, San Francisco, San Francisco Peace Pagoda, Sapporo, September 11 attacks, Shizuoka Prefecture, Sinhalese language, South Bank Parklands, Sri Lanka, St. Norbert, Winnipeg, Steel, Stupa, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, Unawatuna, United Kingdom, United States, Vaishali (ancient city), Valle de Bravo, Vienna, Walapane, Western world, Willen, Winnipeg, World Expo 88, World peace, World War II, Yoshio Taniguchi, 14th Dalai Lama. Expand index (34 more) »

Ampara

Ampara (අම්පාර, அம்பாறை) is the main town of Ampara District, governed by an Urban Council.

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Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

During the final stage of World War II, the United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively.

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Bandarawela

Bandarawela (Sinhala: බණ්ඩාරවෙල, pronounced; Tamil: பண்டாரவளை) is the second largest town in the Badulla District which is away from Badulla.

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Battersea Park

Battersea Park is a 200-acre (83-hectare) green space at Battersea in the London Borough of Wandsworth in London.

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Bhubaneswar

Bhubaneswar, also spelt as Bhubaneshwar or Bhuvanēśvar, is the capital of the Indian state of Odisha.

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Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England, with an estimated population of 1,101,360, making it the second most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Brisbane

Brisbane is the capital of and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland, and the third most populous city in Australia.

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Buddhism

Buddhism is the world's fourth-largest religion with over 520 million followers, or over 7% of the global population, known as Buddhists.

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Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

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Chiba Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region, and the Greater Tokyo Area.

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Comiso

Comiso (Còmisu), is an Italian comune of the Province of Ragusa in Sicily.

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Dalai Lama

Dalai Lama (Standard Tibetan: ཏཱ་ལའི་བླ་མ་, Tā la'i bla ma) is a title given to spiritual leaders of the Tibetan people.

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Darjeeling

Darjeeling is a town and a municipality in the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Dhamma Talaka Pagoda

Dhamma Talaka Peace Pagoda was opened in Birmingham UK in 1998 and is the only such building in traditional Burmese style in the Western hemisphere.

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Franklin County, Massachusetts

Franklin County is a nongovernmental county located in the U.S. state of Massachusetts.

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Galle

Galle (ගාල්ල; காலி) is a major city in Sri Lanka, situated on the southwestern tip, 119 km from Colombo.

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Garoza, Ozolnieki Municipality

Garoza is a village in Latvia, Ozolnieki Municipality.

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Gautama Buddha

Gautama Buddha (c. 563/480 – c. 483/400 BCE), also known as Siddhārtha Gautama, Shakyamuni Buddha, or simply the Buddha, after the title of Buddha, was an ascetic (śramaṇa) and sage, on whose teachings Buddhism was founded.

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Great Smoky Mountains

The Great Smoky Mountains are a mountain range rising along the Tennessee–North Carolina border in the southeastern United States.

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Greater London Council

The Greater London Council (GLC) was the top-tier local government administrative body for Greater London from 1965 to 1986.

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Hiroshima

is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture and the largest city in the Chūgoku region of western Honshu - the largest island of Japan.

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Humayun's Tomb

Humayun's tomb (Maqbaera e Humayun) is the tomb of the Mughal Emperor Humayun in Delhi, India.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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Indraprastha Park

The Millennium Indraprastha Park is a park on the Outer Ring Road in the east of Delhi, India.

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Jammu and Kashmir

Jammu and Kashmir (ænd) is a state in northern India, often denoted by its acronym, J&K.

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Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

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Japan Center (San Francisco)

The Japan Center is a shopping center in the Japantown neighborhood of San Francisco, California.

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Japantown, San Francisco

(also known as J-Town or historically as Japanese Town, or "Nihonmachi" ("Japan town", in Japanese)) is a neighborhood in the Western Addition district of San Francisco, California.

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Jeju Island

Jeju Island (Hangul: 제주도, Jejudo; previously Cheju-do) is the largest island off the coast of the Korean Peninsula, and the main island of Jeju Province of South Korea.

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Kumamoto

is the capital city of Kumamoto Prefecture on the island of Kyushu, Japan.

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Ladakh

Ladakh ("land of high passes") is a region in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir that currently extends from the Kunlun mountain range to the main Great Himalayas to the south, inhabited by people of Indo-Aryan and Tibetan descent.

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Ladywood

Ladywood is an inner-city district next to central Birmingham.

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Leh

Leh is a town in the Leh district of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Lotus Sutra

The Lotus Sūtra (Sanskrit: सद्धर्मपुण्डरीक सूत्र, literally "Sūtra on the White Lotus of the Sublime Dharma") is one of the most popular and influential Mahayana sutras, and the basis on which the Tiantai, Tendai, Cheontae, and Nichiren schools of Buddhism were established.

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Lumbini

Lumbinī (Nepali and Sanskrit: लुम्बिनी, "the lovely") is a Buddhist pilgrimage site in the Rupandehi District of Province No. 5 in Nepal.

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Mahatma Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was an Indian activist who was the leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule.

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Milton Keynes

Milton Keynes, locally abbreviated to MK, is a large townAlthough Milton Keynes was specified to be a city in scale and the term "city" is used locally (inter alia to avoid confusion with its constituent towns), formally this title cannot be used.

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Monastery

A monastery is a building or complex of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone (hermits).

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Munich

Munich (München; Minga) is the capital and the most populated city in the German state of Bavaria, on the banks of the River Isar north of the Bavarian Alps.

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Nagasaki

() is the capital and the largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu in Japan.

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Narita, Chiba

is a city in Chiba Prefecture, Japan.

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NATO

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO; Organisation du Traité de l'Atlantique Nord; OTAN), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 29 North American and European countries.

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NDTV

New Delhi Television Limited (NDTV) is an Indian television media company founded in 1988 by Radhika Roy, a journalist.

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Nepal

Nepal (नेपाल), officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal (सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल), is a landlocked country in South Asia located mainly in the Himalayas but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain.

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New Delhi

New Delhi is an urban district of Delhi which serves as the capital of India and seat of all three branches of Government of India.

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Nichidatsu Fujii

was a Japanese Buddhist monk, and founder of the Nipponzan-Myōhōji order of Buddhism.

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Nipponzan-Myōhōji-Daisanga

, often referred to as just Nipponzan Myohoji or the Japan Buddha Sangha, is a Japanese new religious movement founded in 1917 by Nichidatsu Fujii, emerging from Nichiren Buddhism.

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Osaka

() is a designated city in the Kansai region of Japan.

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Ozolnieki Municipality

Ozolnieki Municipality (Ozolnieku novads) is a municipality in Zemgale, Latvia.

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Petersburgh, New York

Petersburgh is a town located in the northeast section of Rensselaer County, New York, United States.

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Rajgir

Rajgir (originally known as Girivraj) is a city and a notified area in Nalanda district in the Indian state of Bihar.

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Rajgir hills

The Rajgir hills, also known as "Rajhara" hills, lie near the city of Rajgir in central regions of the Indian state of Bihar.It is surrounded by five hills named Ratnagiri, Vipalachal, Vaibhagiri, Songiri and Udaygiri.

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Relic

In religion, a relic usually consists of the physical remains of a saint or the personal effects of the saint or venerated person preserved for purposes of veneration as a tangible memorial.

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Rewata Dhamma

Sayadaw U Rewata Dhamma (4 December 1929, Thamangone – 26 May 2004, Birmingham) was a prominent Theravada Buddhist monk and noted Abhidhamma scholar from Myanmar (Burma).

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River Thames

The River Thames is a river that flows through southern England, most notably through London.

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Salgale Parish

Salgale parish (Salgales pagasts; known until 2011 as Sidrabene parish) is an administrative unit of the Ozolnieki Municipality, Latvia.

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San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

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San Francisco Peace Pagoda

The San Francisco Peace Pagoda is a five-tiered concrete stupa between Post and Geary Streets at Buchanan in San Francisco's Nihonmachi (Japantown).

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Sapporo

is the fifth largest city of Japan by population, and the largest city on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido.

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September 11 attacks

The September 11, 2001 attacks (also referred to as 9/11) were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001.

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Shizuoka Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu.

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Sinhalese language

Sinhalese, known natively as Sinhala (සිංහල; siṁhala), is the native language of the Sinhalese people, who make up the largest ethnic group in Sri Lanka, numbering about 16 million.

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South Bank Parklands

The South Bank Parklands are located at South Bank in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka (Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකා; Tamil: இலங்கை Ilaṅkai), officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean to the southwest of the Bay of Bengal and to the southeast of the Arabian Sea.

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St. Norbert, Winnipeg

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Steel

Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon and other elements.

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Stupa

A stupa (Sanskrit: "heap") is a mound-like or hemispherical structure containing relics (śarīra - typically the remains of Buddhist monks or nuns) that is used as a place of meditation.

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Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche (Tib. o thog bstan 'dzin dbang rgyal) is a teacher (lama) of the Bon Tibetan religious tradition.

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Unawatuna

Unawatuna is a coastal town in Galle district of Sri Lanka.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Vaishali (ancient city)

Vaishali or Vesali was a city in present-day Bihar, India, and is now an archaeological site.

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Valle de Bravo

Valle de Bravo is a town and municipality located in State of Mexico, Mexico.

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Vienna

Vienna (Wien) is the federal capital and largest city of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria.

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Walapane

is located in Nuwara Eliya District of Sri Lanka.

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Western world

The Western world refers to various nations depending on the context, most often including at least part of Europe and the Americas.

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Willen

Willen is a district of Milton Keynes, England and is also one of the ancient villages of Buckinghamshire to have been included in the designated area of the New City in 1967.

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Winnipeg

Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada.

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World Expo 88

World Expo 88, also known as Expo 88, was a specialised Expo held in Brisbane, the state capital of Queensland, Australia, during a six-month period between Saturday, 30 April 1988 and Sunday, 30 October 1988, inclusive.

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World peace

World peace, or peace on Earth, is the concept of an ideal state of happiness, freedom and peace within and among all people and nations on earth.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Yoshio Taniguchi

Yoshio Taniguchi (谷口 吉生, Taniguchi Yoshio; born 1937) is a Japanese architect best known for his redesign of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City which was reopened November 20, 2004.

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14th Dalai Lama

The 14th Dalai Lama (religious name: Tenzin Gyatso, shortened from Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso; born Lhamo Thondup, 6 July 1935) is the current Dalai Lama.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_Pagoda

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