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Return to Transcripts main page NEWS STREAM Migrants Share Their Stories Of Crossing Mediterranean Sea; Saudi Arabia Ends Air Campaign In Yemen; Flooding in Australia Kill Four; The Electronic Recycling Centers of China; Activists Raise Awareness of Delhi Air Pollution. Aired 8:00-9:00a ET Aired April 22, 2015 - 8:00 ET THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. On April 25, an informal meeting was held at The Marriott, one of the recently commenced luxurious property in Kathmandu in which the gathering saw the participation from various stakeholders and visionaries who could contribute in establishing a state of the art Buddhist museum in Lumbini. As the ‘Reimagining A Museum’ initiative, the team put forward their plans and invitations to collaborate and support the scheme, where pilgrims, visitors and locals could be divulged to Buddha’s life long journey and his teachings. Located inside the Sacred Garden Area of the birthplace of the Buddha, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Phase one of the Lumbini Museum will be built in a heritage building previously designed by Pritzker Prize-winning Japanese Architect Kenzo Tange. This showpiece will now be re-imagined by Taiwanese Architect Kris Yao and his team to present a unique cultural and spiritual experience in Lumbini. The work is expected to be finished by October 2020. On the other hand, Phase two will start the construction of a new building compatible with Kenzo Tange’s vision and the surrounding environment. Embracing the design plans for the Lumbini Museum, different dignitaries at the gathering featured the requirement for a progressively complete and enlightening experience in Lumbini and the need for it to be viewed as a centre for harmony, resilience and peace. Working in close coordination with authorities from the Lumbini Development Trust, the Department of Archaeology and Nepal's Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, the core team incorporates global award-winning Chief Architect Kris Yao; Chief Interpretive Planner Albert Paravi Wongchirachai, one of the organisers of Thailand's National Design Center; Museum Exhibition and Facilities Planner Charles Sutyla who has worked on When the Burmese Buddhist Secretary-General of the United Nations, U Thant, visited Nepal in 1967 he flew to Lumbini for a pilgrimage and said: “This is the most important day of my life.” Then, he wept. Many years later, he said he was touched by the visit to the sacred site, and even his grandson Thant Myint-U tells us in an interview (below) that his grandfather was ‘incredibly moved’ in Lumbini. U Thant might have been spiritually stirred to be at the birthplace of the Buddha, but he was also distressed by the condition of the desolate and featureless spot near the Nepal-India border. Read also: The right path Back in Kathmandu, he met King Mahendra and discussed restoring Lumbini’s sanctity. And on return to New York, U Thant set up a UN committee to turn the nativity site into an international centre for peace. Both UNDP and UNESCO got involved and the Japanese architect famous for designing the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, Kenzō Tange, was hired to draw up a master plan. Tange visited Lumbini, and his firm submitted the design in 1978. The project to preserve Lumbini and landscape the sacred garden and surrounding park was to have been finished by 1985, but Tange died in 2005 without seeing the completion of his master plan. The choice of Kenzō Tange for the design was influenced by his stature in post-war Japan. While he was part of the ‘Metabolist’ movement of Japanese architects, his work did not incorporate any obviously traditional Japanese, or even Asian, elements. Neither was he a devout Buddhist. Metabolists sought to experiment with structures that were inspired by biological processes of growth and aggregation. In fact, Tange joined architecture school after seeing the work of the Swiss-French architect and urban planner Le Corbusier, and he admired the functionality of Soviet architecture of the 1930s. This penchant for
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Matthew, and what do you think it is that they've discussed?
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that they have about the ongoing Russian campaign in Syria. I mean, NATO has come out within the past hour or so and condemned the ongoing military
operation there by Russia saying that it targets civilians and opposition groups inside Syria and calling on Russia to work more towards targeting
simply Islamic State and not the other opposition groups that are opposed to Bashar al-Assad, Russia's long-standing ally.
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FRED PLEITGEN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, the Iranians for a very long time, Kristie, have been criticizing the Saudi-led
campaign. They've, in fact, been blasting it, accusing the Saudis of what they call genocide.
The Saudis, of course, for their part, Re-imagining a museum
This national pride initiative seeks to make Lumbini a universal centre for Buddhist pilgrimage
U Thant, Kenzō Tange and the Buddha's birthplace