Special Officer of the Buddhavanam Project in Telangana Mallepalli Laxmaiah on Monday called on Sri Lanka Minister for Buddhasasana, Religious and Cultural Affairs Vidura Vikramanayake in Colombo.
Mr. Laxmaiah invited the Minister to visit the Buddhavanam Project near Nagarjunasagar Project and explained the unique features of the Buddhist theme park developed by the Telangana Government. He informed about the new project being taken up in the name of “The 2,500 years journey of Buddhism” in one segment of the project in which the spread of Buddhism in South-East Asian Countries would be depicted in separate cave-like structures for each country.
The Special Officer invited the Sri Lankan Minister to grace the occasion of laying the foundation stone for the new project scheduled on October 14. According to a press release issued by the Buddhavanam Project office here, while agreeing to the invitation, Mr. Vikramanayake suggested entering a memorandum of understanding between Government of Telangana and Sri Lanka to establish a Sri Lanka-Telangana Friendship Centre at Hyderabad.
