{"id":23331,"date":"2018-03-24T02:18:14","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T20:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=23331"},"modified":"2018-03-24T02:18:14","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T20:48:14","slug":"buddhism-not-all-about-monks-and-monasteries-deru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/03\/24\/buddhism-not-all-about-monks-and-monasteries-deru\/","title":{"rendered":"Buddhism not all about monks and monasteries: Deru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>BOMDILA, Mar 23:<\/strong> &#8220;Buddhism is not about monks, monasteries, gongs and trumpets only; it encompasses and symbolizes peace and welfare of all living beings,&#8221; opined local legislator Japu Deru.<br \/>\nDeru, who inaugurated the much-awaited Buddhist cultural-cum-conference hall at the Buddha Park here on Friday, said Buddhism as a whole could play a vital role in nation-building.<br \/>\nThe cultural-cum-conference hall should be the cradle of all welfare activities and other pioneering works for the people of the district, irrespective of their religious affiliations, he said.<br \/>\nAcknowledging the role played by the Bomdila Buddhist Society (BBS) in completion of the much-awaited cultural centre, West Kameng Deputy Commissioner Sonal Swaroop said every effort should be made to keep the centre in pristine form.<br \/>\n&#8220;This is an asset of the district and we must maintain it properly,&#8221; she said.<br \/>\nEarlier, BBS president Dorjee Phuntso expressed hope that the cultural-cum-conference hall would facilitate &#8220;planning, shaping and execution of all the issues that would be taken up for the welfare of the people.&#8221;<br \/>\nAmong others, SSB DIG S Kumar, ZPC C Lamu, administrative officers, HoDs, public leaders, monks, BBS office bearers, and engineers of the WRD, who executed the work, attended the inaugural function. (DIPRO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOMDILA, Mar 23: &#8220;Buddhism is not about monks, monasteries, gongs and trumpets only; it encompasses and symbolizes peace and welfare of all living beings,&#8221; opined local legislator Japu Deru. Deru, who inaugurated the much-awaited Buddhist cultural-cum-conference hall at the Buddha Park here on Friday, said Buddhism as a whole could play a vital role in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}