The National Commission for Minorities has passed a resolution expressing shock and deep pain on the assault in the holy places in Bodhgaya. In a resolution passed by the chairman, National Commission for Minorities Wajahat Habibullah and the four other members – Vinod Sharma, KN Daruwalla, Ajaib Singh and TN Shanoo in New Delhi on Wednesday, the NCM has said that Bodhgaya is not only revered among the Buddhists in India but across the world. The resolution says that NCM regards this ‘as among the most sacred sites for all Indians, whatever their denomination.
It is from this location that sprang the Lord Buddha’s message of karuna, a mainstay of India’s civilisation throughout the centuries through the teachings of Lord Mahavira Vardhaman, St Thomas the Apostle, Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliyah and Guru Nanak Devji, and revivified in our times by the Father of the Nation in his message of Ahimsa.’
It is from this location that sprang the Lord Buddha’s message of karuna, a mainstay of India’s civilisation throughout the centuries through the teachings of Lord Mahavira Vardhaman, St Thomas the Apostle, Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliyah and Guru Nanak Devji, and revivified in our times by the Father of the Nation in his message of Ahimsa.’