World Young Buddhist Monks hold annual symposium

Ridma DISSANAYAKE

A Thai monk presenting a Buddha statue which had been made according to the Thai Murthy Culture to Prime Minister D. M. Jayaratne. Lands and Land Development Minister Janaka Bandara Tennakoon, local and foreign monks also participated in the symposium.

The eighth annual international symposium of the World Young Buddhist Monks Organization was held at the T.B. Tennakoon Memorial Hall in Galewela, Dambulla recently.

The inauguration ceremony was held under the patronage of Prime Minister and Buddhist Affairs Minister D.M. Jayaratne and Lands and Land Development Minister Janaka Bandara Tennakoon.

Around 800 monks from Sri Lanka and 50 countries participated in the inauguration ceremony.

The first symposium of the World Young Buddhist Monks Organization had been held in Kathmandu, Nepal. This organization was formed to create an attitudinal development among young monks around the world, strengthening the cooperation and relationships among them and to solve matters facing young monks as well.