Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire - Peace Pagoda - local postcard c.1980s

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  Peace Pagoda, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
• Publisher:  Central Milton Keynes Womens Institute / Buckinghamshire Federation of Women's Institutes
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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A Peace Pagoda is a Buddhist stupa; a monument to inspire peace, designed to provide a focus for people of all races and creeds, and to help unite them in their search for world peace. Most (though not all) peace pagodas built since World War II have been built under the guidance of Nichidatsu Fujii (1885–1985), a Buddhist monk from Japan and founder of the Nipponzan-Myohoji Buddhist Order. Fujii was greatly inspired by his meeting with Mahatma Gandhi in 1931 and decided to devote his life to promoting non-violence. In 1947, he began constructing Peace Pagodas as shrines to World peace.^[1]

Peace Pagodas were built as a symbol of peace in Japanese cities including Hiroshima and Nagasaki where the atomic bombs took the lives of over 150,000 people, almost all of whom were civilian, at the end of World War II. By 2000, eighty Peace Pagodas had been built around the world in Europe, Asia, and the United States.

The Nipponzan-Myohoji monks of the New England Peace Pagoda were awarded the Courage of Conscience award June 5, 1998 in Sherborn, Massachusetts.^[2]

Milton Keynes (ⁱ/?m?lt?n 'ki?nz/ mil-t?n-KEENZ), sometimes abbreviated MK, is a large town in Buckinghamshire, about 45 mi (72 km) north-west of London. It is the administrative centre of the Borough of Milton Keynes. It was formally designated as a new town on 23 January 1967^{[citation needed]}, with the design brief to become a 'city' in scale.

At designation, its 89 km² (34 sq mi) area incorporated the existing towns of Bletchley, Wolverton and Stony Stratford along with another fifteen villages and farmland in between. It took its name from the existing village of Milton Keynes, a few miles east of the planned centre.

At the 2011 census the population of the Milton Keynes urban area, including the adjacent Newport Pagnell and Woburn Sands, was 229,941,^[1] and that of the wider borough, which has been a unitary authority independent of Buckinghamshire County Council since 1997, was 248,800,^[2] (compared with a population for the Borough equivalent area of around 53,000 for the same area in 1961),^[3] with almost all the approx 196,000 population increase since 2001 arising in the urban area.

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