“In Buddha we find, perhaps for the first time in the history of humanity, that all-embracing love for man which was to be the mainspring of human behaviour and which was to form one of the pivots of his aspiration for self-realisation. The secret of Buddha’s appeal, the great success of this appeal to Humanity has lain here. Buddha, of course, was in the first instance an Indian sage, and he inherited the accumulated wisdom of his forbears…”
(Suniti Kumar Chatterjee, Buddha and Humanity, paper read at the Buddha Jayanti Symposium, New Delhi, November 1956)
At the Ananda Bodhi Society of India – Sri Lanka Buddha Vihara – Shravasti, had darshan of the sacred Relics of Lord Buddha. Paid respects to veteran monk Bhadant Shraddhalok Mahasthavir,
saw the fascinating mural-paintings depicting Bhagavan Buddha’s sojourn at Shravast…