Some friends and elders will be forever missed. Visited late Shri Mahadevbhai Desai’s family in Navsari. A selfless activist, thinker, educationist, Mahadevbhai contributed to many fields, especially to the library and reading movement (Vanche Gujarat). Paid my heartfelt tributes to him and recalled the many hours we spent discussing library movements, books, readings.
Was very happy to welcome Venerable Shih Jianyin, Secretary General of the World Buddhist Bhikkhuni Association and an eminent and widely respected Buddhist teacher from Taiwan. She is also Secretary General of the Taiwan Buddhist Association, among other responsibilities. Venerable Jianyin has been visiting India, especially the Buddhist pilgrimage sites …