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MUMBAI: Terror-hit Mumbai now has a message of peace for the world. The Global Vipassana Pagoda, the largest stone dome in the world built without supporting pillars, was inaugurated by President Pratibha Patil on Sunday on the outskirts of Mumbai. The President drew on the teachings of non-violence and compassion of the Buddha. Speaking on the occasion, Ms. Patil said people created distinctions in their minds and believed them to be true. Today it was the perceived differences that were dividing people. “A whole ideology of hatred, executed with the instruments of violence and terrorism, is being spread,” she said. “In this, many innocent lives are being lost… .” “Violence and terror will have to be negated and defeated to bring peace in the world,” she said. Messages from Congress president Sonia Gandhi and the Dalai Lama were read out. The 325-foot-high stone monument rises above the mangroves off Gorai in north Mumbai and is accessible by a short boat ride. It is a centre of meditation and its capacious hall can seat at least 8,000 persons.
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