Chandigarh [India]/ Bangkok [Thailand], March 20: Lauding Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visionary leadership for transforming India into a global superpower in the past 10 years, Thai-Indian Community said besides emerging as strong voice of the Indo-Pacific region, PM Modi has further stre
Thailand Ambassador to India, Pattarat Hongtong, has thanked the Indian government for the exposition of sacred relics of Lord Buddha in Thailand, and said that this would attract more Thai people to visit India and reconnect with their roots.
Relics of Lord Buddha and those of his two main disciples, Arahant Sariputta and Maha Moggallana, were brought back to India from Thailand on Tuesday in the presence of Union Minister Meenakashi Lekhi and Buddhist religious heads.
The members of the Buddhist community expressed gratitude for PM Modi's gesture of sending relics of the Buddha and his two disciples to be temporarily enshrined in Thailand from February to March 2024.
People waited to pay respects to the sacred relics of Lord Buddha and his two disciples on Monday in Thailand's Krabi on the last day of their exposition/enshrinement.
Devotees reached Wat Maha Wanaram in Ubon Ratchathani to offer prayers to the holy relics on the last day of exposition, before the relics travel to Krabi.
Thousands of devotees paid respects to the holy relics of Lord Buddha and his two disciples at Wat Maha Wanaram in Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand, on Sunday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday commended the profound spiritual connection between India and Thailand as nearly a million devotees gathered in Bangkok from February 23 to March 3, to pay homage to the sacred relics of Lord Buddha and his disciples.