Moscow, July 28 : Russian Buddhists are to join Sunday night the world Buddhist meditation marathon aimed to increase compassion in the world, the Moscow Buddhist Center has informed Interfax on Friday.
‘We would like to create a positive energy field beneficial to all people’, Oksana Misiura, a representative of the Center, said to the agency.
She also said some people would even take a leave of absence from their work to join the global meditation.
‘It is simply that a very good feeling arises when you do something meaningful together. Besides, this event will foster the community of idealists throughout the world’, she said.
The meditation marathon will start on July 30 at the German city of Kassel, when the participants of a European Buddhist gathering to be held there will begin reading the compassion mantra Om Mani Peme Hung.
The participants in the marathon will read this mantra for three days and nights in a row, relieving one another and counting the total number of the mantra repetitions. In total, over 100 million mantras are expected to be read throughout the world.
The marathon will be held in 45 countries and will involve 470 Buddhist centers. In Russia, 55 cities and settlements will participate.
The Buddha of Boundless Compassion meditation was generated by the Karma Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism and has been observed invariably since the 11th century.
