Europe's largest Buddhist centre to be built in Germany

Europe's major Buddhist centre has got the progress for a site at a previous military composite outside Cologne, it was confirmed Friday.

The complex will house upto 60-80 monks plus upto 200 guests.

Already there are 20 Buddhist monks and nuns alive on the site in Waldbroel, 50 km east of Cologne.

The 10-million euro($14-million)plan, by the European Institute of Applied Buddhism, is to present seminars and courses, teaching policies to deal with concern such as divergence, anger or grief.

The centre is expected to open in 2015.

The European Institute of Applied Buddhism was place by a Buddhist monk, Thich Nhat Hanh, who was exiled from Vietnam in 1966. Along with the Dalai Lama, he is one of the most familiar contemporary Buddhists and has tens of thousands of followers.

The World's Ancient Buddhist Scriptures presents in Thailand


The World's oldest Buddhist Scriptures are revealed for the first time in Thailand at the Phutthamonthon Buddhist Park in Nakhon Pathom region from 8 November 2010 to 5 February 2011. Norway participated an important role in freshly moving the scriptures to safety from Taleban assaults ten years ago. The pubic present in Thailand takes place in reputation of the seventh cycle birthday of His dignity the King on the 5th of December next year. The scriptures are the world's most earliest Tripitaka scriptures for more than 2,000 years old. Some divisions of the ancient scriptures have crumbled. More than 10,000 pieces will be on show at the exhibition.

Buddha's teachings were first confirmed on palm leaves for the period of the first century BC. The scriptures were printed with "Prommi" characters that were used during Buddha's time and serve up as evidence that the scriptures are the world's oldest.

The scriptures were bared in caves in Afghanistan by Bamiyan people who runaway from Taliban attacks and took protection in caves from 1993 to 1995. The Bamiyan people then obtain the scriptures to Pakistan to save them from annihilation by the extremist Muslim Taliban government. Norway and Britain then secretly moved the scriptures out of Pakistan from 1997 to 2000. They brought out 5,000 complete scriptures and 8,000 pieces of broken scriptures inscribed on palm leaves, bark, leather and brass plates.

Phra Thammasitthinayok, Deputy Prime Minister Sanan Kachornprasart and more than 30 Buddhist monks and Thai representatives had brought the scriptures from Norway back for display in Thailand for the first time. Although the deputy abbot spent more than a year seeking the scriptures for an exhibition in Thailand, he finally succeeded as a result of a government-to-government deal.