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Homepage here.
From their press-page:
"Maitreya" comes from the Sanskrit word "maitri' which means love in the sense of compassion and responsibility. As it's focus, Maitreya Project is building a magnificent 500ft / 152m bronze statue of the world's next Buddha, Maitreya, in northern India. The Project is based on the premise that inner peace and outer peace share a cause and effect relationship. The statue will remind everyone of the need for loving-kindness, cultivating inner peace as well as peace within the family, the community and the world.
The Project will benefit the people of India through its economic impact and social programmes, which includes health care and education of international standard.
The statue has been designed to last for at least 1,000 years - a unique and demanding requirement for modern architects and engineers - to enable the Project's spiritual and social work to thrive for at least a millennium.
Cool. Thoughts, anyone? Sounds like a pretty nifty idea, though I don't know how feasible it'll be, or how long it'll take. A new centre for pilgrims? Would you go? If so, why? Or why not? Perhaps this thread could be expanded to discuss pilgrims: why do people go on these journeys? Have you been on one? What's to discover? What DID you discover.
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