{"id":13335,"date":"2021-09-20T13:48:52","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T13:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lediemchihue.com\/?p=13335"},"modified":"2021-09-20T13:48:54","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T13:48:54","slug":"buddha-buzz-india-to-host-its-first-global-buddhist-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lediemchihue.com\/?p=13335","title":{"rendered":"Buddha Buzz: India to Host Its First Global Buddhist Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"790\" height=\"327\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lediemchihue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/10.jpeg?resize=790%2C327&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lediemchihue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/10.jpeg?w=806&amp;ssl=1 806w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lediemchihue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/10.jpeg?resize=300%2C124&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lediemchihue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/10.jpeg?resize=768%2C318&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lediemchihue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/10.jpeg?resize=133%2C55&amp;ssl=1 133w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 790px) 100vw, 790px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> The Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) announced Tuesday that India will host its first-ever Global Buddhist Conference in November. The conference will be held from November 19 to 20 at the Nava Nalanda Mahavihara campus in Nalanda, in the northern state of Bihar,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dnaindia.com\/india\/report-india-to-hold-global-buddhist-conference-in-november-pm-modi-to-give-award-on-buddhist-studies-2911183\" target=\"_blank\">DNA India reports<\/a>. ICCR president Dr. Vinay Sahasrabuddhe explained that the conference will invite a community of academics to deliberate upon one theme every year, beginning with this year\u2019s theme of \u201cBuddhism in Literature.\u201d In the run-up to the event, four regional conferences in India\u2014in Dharamsala, Gangtok, Sarnath, and Telangana\u2014and four more abroad\u2014in Cambodia, Japan, South Korea, and Thailand\u2014will be held, with reports from each regional forum shared at the global conference. The ICCR\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aninews.in\/news\/national\/general-news\/india-to-hold-global-buddhist-conference-in-november-19-20-iccr20210914185856\/\" target=\"_blank\">also announced\u00a0<\/a>that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will present an award for the promotion of Buddhist studies on November 21 in New Delhi as part of the government\u2019s plan to promote India\u2019s Buddhist heritage. The award will be granted in recognition of the promotion of Buddhist studies internationally and comprises a cash reward of $20,000, a plaque, and a gold-plated medallion.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source:  <a href=\"https:\/\/tricycle.org\/trikedaily\/india-buddhist-conference\/\">India to Host Its First Global Buddhist Conference &#8211; Tricycle<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) announced Tuesday that India will host its first-ever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-letters-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lediemchihue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/10.jpeg?fit=806%2C334&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7bhGG-3t5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lediemchihue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lediemchihue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lediemchihue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lediemchihue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lediemchihue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lediemchihue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13337,"href":"https:\/\/lediemchihue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13335\/revisions\/13337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lediemchihue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lediemchihue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lediemchihue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lediemchihue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}