17/11/2015
Culture of Peace Nepal, is born
The unveiling of Peace Marker Nepal, the recent state of development of the ideas behind the Worldwide Peace Marker Project collective since the publication of the “General Theory for a culture of World Peace” by the project’s director Tiité Baquero.
The current state of violence in the world serves as a contrasting backdrop, to reveal a most magnificent sight, as the presence of an emerging “Culture of world Peace” is born as palpable as the violent world in which it is being born. The enclosed photographs provide a glimpse into the beauty and the simplicity of a significant moment in history.
On November 15, 2015 at 4:00 p.m. At the Bikalpa Art Center in Kathmandu, Nepal, Artist Govinda Azad unveiled Peace Marker Nepal, thereby planting the seed that will sprout into a “Culture of Peace Nepal” to which he is the founder and the Ambassador of the “Culture of Peace Nepal” to the rest of the world.
As with all new cultures, “Culture of Peace Nepal” is born shrouded in the culture of its native surroundings. Let me explain:
The lamp of universal light was ignited on top of the dark cloth of darkness, to invoke the enlightenment of peace to enter the ceremony and touch the Peace Marker with its light.
The Peace Marker was covered by a white cloth symbolizing the abstract purity of peace, then was removed to reveal the physical presence of peace, humbly, as a mere point of peace, as a seed from the tree of a culture of World Peace that is yet to be seen.
The peace Marker wore a “Khada” or scarf for the ceremony, to conform with Tibetan tradition to show proper respect for the guests and to acknowledge them as witnesses to the birth of “Culture of Peace Nepal.”
The Peace Marker rests on a plinth or pedestal sculpted by Narendra Bhandari to look like the sacred Mount Everest, allowing the Peace Marker to become one with the Nepalese soil so that the culture of peace that grows there will be uniquely Nepalese. Thereby securing its identity before “Culture Of Peace Nepal” joins the 198 other national cultures around the world, that forms the Culture of World Peace.
Therefore, Nepalese artist Govinda Azad as the principal founder of the emerging culture of peace Nepal, is from this day on an ambassador for the “Culture of Peace Nepal” representing Nepal’s 27 million people to the larger community of 197 other countries and their unique culture of peace comprising over 7 billion people to the creation of a Culture of World peace which will include the 10 million or so number of animal and plant species with which we, humanity, inhabit the Earth.
It is my heart felt desire that the birth of this long awaited culture of peace in Nepal will serve as a building block, upon which, the people of Nepal should begin to restore the love and respect for life, which certainly lives at the core of a culture of peace.
I extend my undying gratitude to all of the people whose efforts have made this historical event possibleLove and Peace
Tiité
