Japanese Peace Pagoda (Bandarawela)
The Peace Pagoda , also known as Japan Sama Cetiya (Sinhala: බණ්ඩාරවෙල ජපන් සාම චෛත්යය), is a Japanese-styled Stupa situated near Bandarawela town in Badulla District, Sri Lanka. It is one of the five Japan Peace Pagodas in the country. A Peace Pagoda is a Buddhist stupa erected to inspire peace and most of the peace pagodas in the world built since World War II (1939-1945), have been built under the guidance of the Japanese Buddhist monk Nichidatsu Fujii (1885-1985), the founder of the Nipponzan-Myōhōji Buddhist Order. He constructed 80 of these pagodas around the world after World War II, including at Hiroshima and Nagasaki (McIntosh et al., 2019). By declaring Bandarawela a Peace City, the Peace Pagoda was constructed at the present site on 27 February 1982. See also #) Peace Pagoda, Ampara #) Peace Pagoda, Rumassala #) Peace Pagoda, Sri Pada #) Peace Pagoda, Walapane Attribution 1) Bandarawela Peace Pagoda by Gayancliyanage is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 . References 1) McIntosh, I.S., Hadda…
