Although a somewhat unlikely location in the English of Willen Lake North in Milton Keynes, is the location of the first peace pagoda to be built in the Western world.
A peace pagoda is a Buddhist monument built as a symbol of world peace, and is meant to promote unity among all the peoples of the world regardless of race, creed, or border. Peace pagodas have been built all across Asia, often in places that seem to need the most healing such as the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki where American atomic bombs took the lives of more than 150,000 people at the end of World War II. There are now more than 80 peace pagodas across Europe, Asia, and the United States, but the first of the Western temples was built in the town of Milton Keynes in England.
The peace pagoda at Willen Lake was completed in September 1980, with an inauguration ceremony that was attended by religious leaders and world peace activists from across the globe. The ceremony was lead by Nichidatsu Fujii, founder and teacher of the Order of Nipponzan Myohoji, the Buddhist sect that built the structure near to their temple headquarters.
Surrounding both the temple and the peace pagoda are 1,000 cedar and cherry trees, planted in remembrance of all victims of all wars. At the top of the hill between the pagoda and the temple stands the One World Tree which has prayers, messages of hope and small ornaments attached to it as memorials for loved ones lost.
Frequent Traveler University in San Diego next March, which I posted about this morning, sold out in under 3 hours. But that doesn’t mean you can’t go. Here’s the Milepoint thread for FTU Advanced in San Diego. There are a handful of tickets held back, I’m told, and they’re right here. There are no doubt […]
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US Airways Dividend Miles has been adding several footnotes to their award chart lately, some of which make sense, and some of which don't. They're also not always consistently enforced, so that only makes them more complicated to some.
One of the recent updates which left me puzzled was the following footnote on US Airways' award chart:
"Awards booked on Japan Airlines are valid for the next 90 days starting from the following day of the Award Ticket issuance. Reservations for domestic JAL Award Flights within Japan must be made no earlier than 0930 Japan time, two months prior to travel."
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News and notes from around the interweb: The worst airline passengers in the history of travel. The TSA ‘forgot’ to do secondary screening of a passenger whose name is on the terrorism watch list. So they made up for it by screening him on arrival, after he had flown. (HT: Toqueville) Lucky asks if he […]
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