The South Asian Buddhist Forum was developed at Baurinagar Buddhist Maha Vihara, Maharashtra State of India on January 07.

More than 25,000 individuals participated in this two-day occasion, whilst Ven.

Athuraliye Rathana Thero was selected as the President of the South Asian Buddhist Forum.

During the conference, a special convention consisting of 09 points has actually also been declared.

At this convention, it was agreed to develop prototypes of the Buddhist viewpoint of life, relocation towards zero-emission energy, and devote to the production of a green world.

It also promised to work for promoting the cooperative system and fair trade in the world in order to produce social justice.

Appropriately, a South Asian Buddhist Council will be established consisting of South Asian representatives, who accept the relevant goals of the convention, in order to accomplish the relevant objectives.

A bilingual website that uses content in both Hindi and English languages will be launched in order to accomplish those goals, while a dialogue needed to determine the common spiritual identity of the three main branches of Buddhism is slated to be started through a quarterly publication.

It has actually also been gone over to hold a Buddhist conference in each state of India and Buddhist countries representing this conference, while relationships will be built with Buddhist leaders in all the other Buddhist nations which do not represent the conference and to connect those countries to the international Buddhist community.

They will also work towards establishing arts and literature that brings about the spiritual awakening and consistency of human beings and to promote and promote the existing Buddhist arts, in order to attain the goals agreed upon at this convention.