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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AtulaSiriwardane" data-source="post: 4070396" data-attributes="member: 120286">Global Vipassana Pagoda      <img src="http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/2477/front001av2sa3.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />                          From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia                                                                           <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pagoda_Mumbai.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d8/Pagoda_Mumbai.jpg/250px-Pagoda_Mumbai.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>   Building   Type Meditation Hall   Architectural style Burmese   Structural system Stone dome, with self-supporting interlocking stones   Location Mumbai, India   Construction   Started 2001   Completed 2008   Design team   Architect Chandubhai Sompura   Structural engineer ?   The Global Vipassana Pagoda is a notable monument in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumbai" target="_blank">Mumbai</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India" target="_blank">India</a>. This monument was inaugurated by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratibha_Patil" target="_blank">Pratibha Patil</a>, the President of India on February 8, 2009.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Pagoda#cite_note-0" target="_blank">[1]</a> It is located in the north of Mumbai in an area called Gorai and is built on donated land on a peninsula between <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorai" target="_blank">Gorai</a> creek and the Arabian Sea. The Global Pagoda is built out of gratitude to the Buddha, his teaching and the community of monks practicing his teaching. Its traditional Burmese design is an expression of gratitude towards the country of Myanmar for preserving the practice of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vipassana" target="_blank">Vipassana</a>. The shape of the pagoda is a copy of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shwedagon_Pagoda" target="_blank">Shwedagon Pagoda</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangon" target="_blank">Yangon</a>, Myanmar. It is being built combining ancient Indian and modern technology to enable it to last for at least 2000 years.[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" target="_blank">citation needed</a>]     Description The center of the Global Pagoda contains the world's largest stone dome built without any supporting pillars. The height of the building is 96.12 meters, which is twice the size of the previously largest hollow stone monument in the world, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gol_Gumbaz" target="_blank">Gol Gumbaz</a> Dome in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bijapur" target="_blank">Bijapur</a>, India. External diameter of the largest section of the dome is 97.46m and the shorter sections is 94.82m. Internal diamter of the dome is 85.15m.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Pagoda#cite_note-1" target="_blank">[2]</a> The inside of the pagoda is hollow and serves as a very large meditation hall with an area covering more than 6000 m2 (65,000 ft2). The massive inner dome seats over 8000 people enabling them to practice the non-sectarian Vipassana meditation as taught by Mr <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.N._Goenka" target="_blank">S.N. Goenka</a> and now being practiced in over 100 countries. An inaugural one-day meditation course was held at the pagoda on December 21 2008, with Mr S.N. Goenka in attendance as the teacher. The aim of the pagoda complex is, among others, to express gratitude to Gautama Buddha for dispensing for what followers believe is a universal teaching for the eradication of suffering, to educate the public about the life and teaching of the Buddha, and to provide a place for the practice of meditation. 10-day vipassana meditation courses are held free of charge at the meditation centre that is part of the Global Pagoda complex.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Pagoda#cite_note-2" target="_blank">[3]</a>   Construction history  Timeline<img src="http://img365.imageshack.us/img365/4392/76120540tu2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />  <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pagoda_Meditators.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5e/Pagoda_Meditators.jpg/350px-Pagoda_Meditators.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>  <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pagoda_Meditators.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://en.wikipedia.org/skins-1.5/common/images/magnify-clip.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> Meditators seated inside the Global Pagoda dome.   Planning for the construction of the Global Pagoda began in 1997, while actual building work started in 2001. The pagoda consists of three sub-domes. The first and lagest dome was completed in October 2006 when bone relics of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gautama_Buddha" target="_blank">Gautama Buddha</a> were enshrined in the central locking stone of the dome on October 29 2006, making it the world's largest structure containing relics of the Buddha. The relics were originally found in the stupa at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanchi" target="_blank">Sanchi</a>. They have been donated by the Mahabodhi Society of India and the prime minister of Sri Lanka to be kept at the Global Pagoda.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Pagoda#cite_note-3" target="_blank">[4]</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Pagoda#cite_note-4" target="_blank">[5]</a> The second and third domes sit atop the first dome. Construction of the third dome was structurally completed on November 21 2008. The Global Pagoda complex is still under construction with plans to include a museum depicting the life and teaching of Gautama Buddha that is expected to draw one hundred thousand visitors annually. The Global Pagoda's educational displays will communicate the Buddha's universal teaching as a path towards real happiness. The Global Pagoda complex will consist of the following structures: <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Pagoda dome containing relics of Buddha (complete)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Vipassana meditation centre Dhamma Pattana (complete)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Museum depicting life of the Buddha</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Two smaller pagodas on the north and south side (north pagoda complete)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Library and study rooms</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Circumambulation path around the dome</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Administration building (complete)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Underground parkade</li> </ul> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="http://www.dhamma.org/" target="_blank">www.dhamma.org: Vipassana Meditation</a></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="http://www.globalpagoda.org/" target="_blank">globalpagoda.org: Official Site</a></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="http://www.pariyatti.org/podcasts/archives/2006/09/great_global_pa.html" target="_blank">Great Global Pagoda</a> 16-minute film documenting the vision for the Global Pagoda</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="http://www.pariyatti.com/book_142878.html" target="_blank">The Global Pagoda: Monument of Gratitude</a> Book commemorating the Pagoda's construction, from Pariyatti Press</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/HJ25Df03.html" target="_blank">Asia's spectacular monument of gratitude</a> 2006 Asia Times article</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="http://www.indiaprwire.com/pressrelease/leisure-travel/2009011918224.htm" target="_blank">India's President to inaugurate Global Vipassana Pagoda</a> Press release</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="http://www.hindu.com/2009/01/29/stories/2009012952322000.htm" target="_blank">Indigenous tribute to the Buddha</a> Online news artcile in The Hindu</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/news/culture-places-news/india-pagoda-apvin.html" target="_blank">World's Largest Stone Dome Rises</a> National Geographic video on the construction of the Pagoda</li> </ul></blockquote>

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