{"id":133865,"date":"2023-04-20T15:22:05","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T22:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=133865"},"modified":"2023-04-20T15:22:05","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T22:22:05","slug":"global-buddhist-summit-in-new-delhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/04\/20\/global-buddhist-summit-in-new-delhi\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Buddhist Summit in New Delhi"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Senaka Weeraratna<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Today a Global Buddhist Summit was inaugurated in New Delhi by the Indian Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the News is heart warming especially to Buddhists a content analysis of the Agenda of this Summit Conference is not.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>International Buddhist Conferences usually fail to address the problems of Buddhist minorities in the rest of the World. In fact these issues are deliberately avoided.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While all Buddhist Countries officially grant recognition to the three major Monotheistic religions i. e., Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, there is no proper reciprocating.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Europe, only three Countries recognize Buddhism officially as a Religion, namely, Russia, Austria and Italy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not Britain. Not France. Not Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In fact, both Buddhism and Hinduism are unrecognized officially as Religions in most parts of the world especially in the Western and West Asian countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These Buddhist Summit Conferences will lose their credibility before long if they show that they lack the spine and backbone to fight and champion&nbsp; Buddhist Rights and give&nbsp; voice to true Grievances of Buddhist Minorities in various parts of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is time to go beyond Buddhist Fellowship. There are other issues of equal importance that deserve close attention.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Buddhist voices must be heard at Global level and in UN affiliated institutions, and the formation of a League of Buddhist Nations is long overdue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Senaka Weeraratna<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Global Buddhist Summit begins in New Delhi, Dalai Lama likely to attend | English News | WION\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3UqFm-bkJ8U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.dailymirror.lk\/article\/Official-recognition-of-Buddhism-in-non-Buddhist-countries-122080.html\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senaka Weeraratna Today a Global Buddhist Summit was inaugurated in New Delhi by the Indian Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi. While the News is heart warming especially to Buddhists a content analysis of the Agenda of this Summit Conference is not.&nbsp; International Buddhist Conferences usually fail to address the problems of Buddhist minorities in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-senaka-weeraratna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}