NEVADA: Reno Buddhist Center in Nevada welcomed the New Year in a unique service at midnight with ringing of bells and recitation of Gayatri Mantra.
Matthew Fisher led the service and talked about “108 Impediments”; while Carole Ann Maupin lead the congregants in the song “Auld Lang Syne”; Shelley Fisher, Cathy Riordan and Matthew Fisher chanted “Shoshinge” while attendees lined up to offer incense and ring the bell; and homages were paid to Buddha-Dhamma-Sangha.
In a remarkable interfaith gesture greeting the New Year, Rajan Zed president of Universal Society of Hinduism, recited Gayatri Mantra, considered the most sacred mantra of Hinduism, which is from Rig-Veda, oldest existing scripture of the mankind.
India Post News Service
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