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Lumbini-Kapilvastu Day Movement

As part of the World Peace Movement, Nepalese people living in different parts of the world in 2009 decided to commemorate Lumbini and Kapilavastu, the birthplace of Gautam Buddha, by observing Kapilvastu Day as a global holiday in order to spread the Buddha’s peace and nonviolence messages all over the world. The Buddha is revered as a Messenger of Peace. He is also known as the Light of Asia who is actually the Light of the world as his message of peace and nonviolence has become more relevant as the world is facing the problems of violence today. The world today has become more violent than ever before. Therefore, we have decided to spread the messages of the Buddha all over the world by observing Kapilvastu Day every year. Originally, on December 1, 1896, Dr Anton Führer, a German archaeologist, had

discovered the Buddha’s birthplace when he found the Asoka Pillar at Lumbini. Even

though this site was first discovered by Khadga Shamsher Rana before Führer had

reached the site but Führer is credited for this discovery as he brought it into light and made it known to the international community.

The Asoka Pillar is the most important evidence that Buddha was born in Lumbini. Therefore, it was decided to observe December 1 as Kapilavastu Day. The historic Kapilavastu, located close to Lumbini, is considered to be another holy pilgrimage for the Buddhists since it was the place where the Buddha grew up and which he later renounced seeking to understand the cause of human sufferings. The result of years of excavations and researches by numerous national and international teams has been that Tilaurakot is the historic Kapilvastu which UNESCO should certify as another World Heritage, next to Lumbini.

After celebrating the Kapilvastu Day as the Global Day for the first time in history on December 1, 2009, we discussed on how to keep the program going ahead. Hence a 21 member committee has been formed as the Kapilvastu Day Movement Global Committee under Engr. Ram Kumar Shrestha’s leadership. The committee is constituted as follows:

1. Ram Kumar Shrestha Global Coordinator, UK 2. Abi Sharma Coordinator, Canada 3. Baburaja Maharjan Coordinator, Newzealand 4. Bhanu Poudyal Special Coordinator, Canada 5. Binay Shah Coordinator, Hongkong 6. Chandra Rai Coordinator, Canada 7. Dr. Hari Kumar Shrestha Coordinator, Taiwan 8. Hari Nepali Coordinator, Qatar 9. Laxman Devkota Coordinator,, Portugal 10. Laxman Puri Coordinator, Nepal 11. Mrs Laxmi Simkhada Coordinator, USA 12. Dr. Madhu K. Shrestha Coordinator, Russia

13. Nilkantha Tiwari Coordiantor, Nepal 14. Raj Shrestha Coordinator, Nepal 15. Om Gurung Coordinator, Japan 16. Ramhari Shrestha Coordinator, UK 17. Santosh Neupane Coordinator, Belgium 18. Miss Sanu Ghimire Coordinator, Australia 19. Shailesh Shrestha Coordinator, USA 20. Shambhu Kattel Coordinator, USA 21. Sujan Neupane Coordinator, Australia

To make the movement more effective and to simplify the decision making process of the committee a nine member Secretariat has been formed and the secretariat members shall be the regional coordinators of corresponding regions as follows:

1. Engr. Ram Kumar Shrestha (UK)

2. Baburaja Maharjan (Australia, Newzealand and surrounding countries),

3. Hari Nepal (Middle East),

4. Binay Shah and Om Gurung (Japan, Hongkong, China and surrounding countries),

5. Shailesh Shrestha (USA and South America),

6. Chandra Rai (Canada)

7. Dr. Madhu K. Shrestha (Europe).

8. Raj Shrestha (SAARC)

The Global Coordinator shall be the Chief in the secretariat which shall be located in London.

Bhanu Poudyal shall be designated as the Special Coordinator, to inform those who are misinformed particularly on Lumbini, and the birth place of the Buddha.

To smoothly spread the Movement’s Peace Mission at national and International levels an eight member Advisory Board shall be formed with the following members: 1. Mr. Agni Frank Eickermann (writer, Founder of Spiritual Teachers Training, Alpha Chi Consultants, and "Path into Light", Speaker: Spirituality, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Feng Shui, Management solutions, Golden Age, USA), 2. Ani Choyuing Dolma 3. Dr. Arzu Rana-Deuba (CA member and MP), 4. HE Deepak Khadaka (Consulate General, NSW, Australia), 5. Ms Domo Geshe Rinpoche (Spiritual Director, White Conch Dharma Center, USA), 6. Prof. Dr. Kavitaram Shrestha (writer and founder of Aswikrit Movement), 7. Mr. Rajendra Shrestha (former minister), and 8. HE Dr. Rishi Adhikari (Nepali Ambassador to Malaysia)

The Movement appointed two senior artists as its Cultural Ambassadors:

1. Manoj Gajurel 2. HE Prem Raja Mahat

Smaller Earth Ambassador Sunita Basnet is appointed as Global Ambassador The Movement expects coordination and cooperation in attaining its objectives from Nepal government, intellectuals, journalists and all peace movement committed institutions from different part of the world and committed to give its hands to all peace loving institutions.

Major Activities and Achievements: 1. Correction by Google: After giving pressure through lots of Facebook Groups,

Google corrected its wrong information on Buddha’s birth place. Before this Google was showing UP, India as Buddha’s birth place.

After our voice Google corrected its mistake. Now it shows Nepal as Birthplace of the Buddha. Before this it was showing India as Birthplace of the Buddha.

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3. Pressure to Fareed Zakaria: Fareed Zakaria, the Editor of Newsweek International and the host of CNN’s Fareed Zakaria’s GPS, in his book “The Post-American World” introduced Buddha as an Indian. Kapilvastu Day Movement mobilized people in different ways to give him pressure to apologize and correct his mistake.

4. Pressure to PBS: PBS is made up of more than 350 local public noncommercial

TV stations and reaches more than 115 million people each month through on-air

and online content, and, increasingly, in other platforms. PBS content is available

on air through its local stations and, for many programs, online, in the form of

podcasts, blogs, video clips, and full episodes.

PBS was going to release a documentary “The Buddha” on 7th of April, 2010

exploring the life of Prince Siddhartha, today know as the Buddha, whose

spiritual quest for enlightenment gave birth to Buddhism. The problem with the

documentary was that that was with misinformation about Buddha. Kapilvastu

Day Movement mobilized people to make correction in the misinformation before

to release the documentary.

5. Petition on Informing the World about the True Birth Place of the Buddha:

Petition on Informing the World about the True Birth Place of the Buddha was

started to collect signature on 14th of July, 2010 – immediately after forming the

first phase of Global Committee. It was the preparation to submit petition to the

Prime Minister.

6. Petition submission to the Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal: Petition

was submitted to the Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal on 12th of August,

2010. Dr. Arzu Deuba Rana, former minister Rajendra Shrestha, MP Dip Kumar

Upadhyaya, Prof. Dr. Kavitaram Shrestha, from Global Committee Laxman Puri

(Nepal), Raj Shrestha (Nepal), Om Gurung (Japan) and Santosh Neupane

(Belgium) were in the team.

Major issues raised in the petition: 1. Emphasis to deal with Indian government on Fake Lumbini issue 2. Using diplomatic missions to sort out misinformation in course books of many

countries on Buddha birth place.

7. Book published: A research oriented novel based on the life of Buddha “MAHAVINISKRAMANKA ASWIKRIT PAILA” written by Dr. Prof. Kavitaram Shrestha, was published by the Movement..

8. Role in Correcting Misinformation in British Museum: After detail news in Kantipur on October 29 and 2nd of November 2011 and news in Nepalipatra British Museum on its Facebook page at 3:46 pm on 4th of Novemebr, 2011 notified: “In light of recent comments about the Buddha’s birthplace, we would like to reassure you that the Museum does not state that the Buddha was born in India. We state that the Buddha was born into a small kingdom that flourished in north-eastern India in about 500 BC. The kingdom covered a reasonably wide area in the northern plains, along with several others of the time. When the Buddha’s mother was expecting, the family decided that she should proceed north to the hills to give birth. This she did, but gave birth along the way, in Lumbini at foot of the Himalayas. The site of Lumbini is in Nepal about 20 miles from the modern border with the Republic of India. If you are aware of an instance where the incorrect information is written or posted please let us know where so we can look into it. You are welcome to leave comments about this subject on the main wall but please note that comments about this subject on unrelated posts will be deleted as they are off topic. Please see further information about commenting in the info tab.”

After British Museum notice Kapilvastu Day Movement made news and

circulated through Facebook big groups and emails requesting to leave their

comments on British Museum page to give pressure to mention Lumbini, Nepal

as Buddha’s birth place. When there were more than 1,100 comments British

Museum at 11.05 am on 7th of November notified with the decision to mention

Lumbini, Nepal as Buddha’s birth place:

“In the spirit of clarity, the British Museum wants to be unambiguous and accurate on this issue – the Buddha was born in Lumbini which is in Nepal. The Museum is always seeking to find the clearest way to put past history into understandable statements in the Museum, on our website and in our online records. Thank you for your feedback. Please be assured this is an important issue to the Museum and has been passed on to our curatorial team to establish where further clarity in the Museum and online may be required.”

British Museum

9. Honoring journalist Nabin Pokharel: Nabin Pokharel, the Editor of

Nepalipatra, created favorable environment to correct misinformation on Buddha

birth place in British Museum due to his detail news in Kantipur and Nepalipatra

attracting attention of Museum and other concern bodies. As every year 6,000

thousands visitors from all over the world visit the Museum, the decision to

correct the information is Great achievement. Kapilvastu Day Movement,

therefore, honored him while celebrating 3rd Kapilvastu Day in UK.

Ambassador Dr. Suresh Raj Chalisee and MP Bhante Ananda Path giving the certificate jointly

NRN UK President Kul Acharya honoring journalist Nabin Pokharel

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12 Blog/Site Head Information: After requesting and encouraging journalists and bloggers to keep Buddha birth place information in their blog and web site headers, some have agreed to do so and this could also have positive result and solidarity with the Movement objectives:

13 Financial Support to World Cyclist: In a program jointly organized with Gurung Samaj, Kent, UK Kapilvastu Day Movement handed over 151 GBP cheque to World Cyclist requesting to spread Movement message on Buddha birth place among people all over the world.

National Committees:

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4. Canada (23rd of November, 2010) Chandra Rai Brampton, National Coordinator

19 Coordinators: Dr. Govinda Dahal (Ottawa), Dr. Toya Baral (Ottawa),

Angsharkey Sherpa (Montreal), Muga Dhan Rajbhandari (Montreal), Dr.Tulsi

Dharel (Toronto), Govinda Singh Rawat (Toronto), Anup Neupane (Toronto),

Durga Adhikari (Toronto), Rajan Shrestha (Toronto), Mahesh Pradhan (North

York), Jhalak Paudyal (North York), Govinda Siwakoti (Mississauga), Mike KC

(Mississauga), Raj Kumar Rai (Brampton), Angbaru Sherpa (Brampton), Subash

Bk (Brampton), Krishna Timsina (Brampton), Bhanu Paudyal (Vancouver), Abi

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5. New Zealand (25th of November, 2010):

Baburaja Maharjan (Auckland) National Coordinator

18 Coordinators: Ashok Kumar Shrestha (Waimate), Bhuban Paudel (Auckland),

Chakra Thapa (Queenstown), Dr. Dilli Prasad Banjade (Palmorston North), Dr.

Narayani Tiwari (Mrs) (Chirstchurch), Dr. Obi Khanal (Whangarei), Mrs Elina

Bajracharya (Invercargill), Mrs. Hasina Rajkarnikar (Paihia), Ms. Jyoti Desar

(Auckland), Kesh Gurung (Te Puke), Pradeep Lohani (Auckland), Mrs. Rabina

Maharjan Balfour (Gore), Mrs. Rambha Maharjan (Dunedin), Ramesh Shrestha

(Rotorua), Santosh Acharya (Auckland), Shankar Shrestha (Auckland), Shreedhar

Basnet (Auckland), and Shreejan Pandey (Wellington)

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। 11. Combodia (11 January, 2012) National Coordinator: Khadananda Pokhrel

Coordinators: Lal Singh Khadka, Deep Paudyal, Raj Kumar Sharma, Mahesh

Bhandari, Shiva Parajuli, Gaman Singh Gurung and Gopal Khadka

12 Germany

National Coordinator: Kamal Bhattrai

Coordinators: Shailendra Malla, Sushil KC, Jyoti Chandra Shrestha and

Sanjeev Thapa

13 Vietnam

National Coordinator: Sujan Udaya

Coordinators: udaya_sujal@hotmail.com, Lovunited@gmail.com

Lumbini Torism Promotion Forum

Rupak Raj Acharya – General Coordinator

Coordinators:

Suman Kumar Sigdel,

Haribol Satyal,

Sushil KC,

Keshab Mani Pathak

Rajan Pokharel,

Suman Shrestha

Mina Pandey

Nilesh Adghikari

Sanchar Samooha (Midea Forum for the Campaign) :

1. Nilkantha tiwari, Aikyabaddhata, General Coordinater

Coordinators:

2. Krandan Chapagain, Nepal 1 TV,

3. Ganessh Pande, Mountain TV,

4. Balaram Thapa, Mool Prabah,

5. Mina Pande, Ujyalo FM,

6. Shivaraj Gautam, International Media Coordinator

7. Basu Satyal, Avenues

8. Saroj, Nepal TV

9. Nirmal Aryal, ABC TV

10. Surendra Suvedi, Himalay Times

11. Devendra Khapung, Nepal Prishtha Bhumi

12. Suman Sigdel, Nayan Patrika,

13. Mrigendra Bikram Thapa, Light of Asia

14. Suman Shrestha, Namaste FM

National Ambassadors:

Alpha Shrestha, National Green Ambassador, she was also appointed as

Green Ambassador by the President of Nepal.

Kishor Kunkel, National Scout Student Ambassador,

Nilesh Adhikari, National Tourism Ambassador,

Sabita Bhatta, National Girl Student Ambassador, Precious National College,

Maihpi, Kathmandu.

Shree Kumar Shrestha, National Teacher Ambassador

SOME MORE MOVEMENT ACTIVITIES HIGHIGHTS

UK

1. 3rd Kapilvastu day celebration

Ambassador HE Dr.Suresh Chanda Chalise speaking on 3rd Kapilvastu Day Program

Ambassador Dr. Suresh Chandra Chalse and MP Bhante Ananda Path honouring certificate to

journalist Nabi Pokharel

NRN UK President Kul Acharya honring journalist Nabin Pokharel

2nd Kapivastu Day Celebration

2555th Buddha jayati

2600th Sambdha Jayanti:

Apponting Senior tist manoj Gajurel as Cultural Ambassador:

Qatar (Second Kapilvastu Day Celebration)

Kapivastu Day Movement Middle East Coordinator Hari Nepali handing over

Movement booklet to the Ambassador Dr Suryanath Mishra

Australia

Celebrating First Kapilvastu Day

Kapilvastu Day Movement Australia Coordinator Sujan Neupane handing over

Movement Booklet to New South Wales Consulate General Deepak Khadka

Canada

MP Bhante Ananda Path with Kapilvastu Day Movement Team

Nepal Swara Shikshya School Celebrating Kapilvastu Day

Taiwan

Kapilvastu Day Movement Posters

Advisory Board Member:

Domo Geshe Rinpoche Dr. Arzu Rana Deuba Agni Frank Eickermann

Dr. Kavitaram Shrestha Dr. Rishi Adhikari Rajendra Shrestha

HE Deepak K Khadka Ani Choyuing Dolma

Cultural Ambassadors:

:

HE Prem Raja Mahat Manoj Gajurel

Global Committee Members:

Ram Kumar Shrestha Sanu Ghimire Laxmi Simkhada

Abi Sharma Baburaja Maharjan Bhanu Poudyal

Binay Shah Hari Nepali Dr. Hari K. Shrestha

Laxman Puri Om Gurung Raj Shrestha

Ram H. Shrestha Shailesh Shrestha Shambhu Kattel

Chandra Rai Santosh Neupane Sujan Neupane

Dr. Madhu K Shrestha Nilkantha Tiwari

SAARC Advisor:

Kedar Shakya

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful. Buddha

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. Buddha

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him. Buddha

All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else. Buddha

A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden. Buddha.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. Buddha

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him. Buddha