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Ven. Jyotipal Maha Thera dead

The most venerable Sangharaja Jyotipal Maha Thera, religious head of Bangladeshi Buddhists, passed away yesterday afternoon at a Mumbai, clinic, India, at the age of 91, reports BSS.

Bangladesh National Centre of Asian Buddhist Conference for Peace (ABCP) sources confirming the death told the agency last this evening that Maha Thera was suffering from old-age complications. The Maha Thera was born on January 5 of 1911 under Laksham police station of Comilla district. He was former President of Bangladesh Bouddha Kristi Prochar Sangha and founder Chairman of Asian Buddhist Conference for Peace (ABCP), Bangladesh centre.

Venerable Jyotipal participated in the Liberation War of Bangladesh. He visited Thailand, Sri Lanka and Japan in August 1971 to seek support from Asian Buddhists for the country's Liberation War.

He also participated in many international Buddhist conferences in Nepal, Malaysia, Mongolia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Korea and the USA.

He was awarded Asian Buddhist Peace Medal in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the cause of world peace by the ABCP in its general conference in Mongolia in 1979.

The United Nations honoured him as the World Citizen in 1995. The government of Myanmar has awarded him the high religious title " Aggmahasaddha Jytika Ddhaj" in March 2001. (Courtesy: buddhistnews.tv)

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