Kathmandu: About 300 monks, who are members of the South Korea-based Sun Hye Peace Academy, have built a park in Lumbini, the birth place of Lord Buddha situated in western Nepal as a symbol of friendship between the countries.

The work on the 80 x 80 mere park inside the Lumbini garden complex is almost complete and Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala is scheduled to inaugurate it in the third week of May coinciding with Buddha Jayanti, the state-run daily The Rising Nepal reported today.

The organisation's members who visited Nepal from February 23 to 27 to offer worship at Lumbini, decided to construct the park following Koirala's request, it said.

"About 300 Buddhist monks from Korea prayed at Lumbini and the pilgrimage led by Sun Mok Hye Ja visited 108 temples at that time as part of their worshipping programme for the purpose of world peace," said Choi Go Dam, president of Korean Culture and Language Centre.

The organisation is planning another pilgrimage to Nepal between May 15 and 22 with the participation of over 100 Korean monks.
Source : PTI