Ven. Bhikkhu Sanghasena India BUILDING A HARMONIOUS SOCIETY Venerable Bhikkhu Sanghasena was born in the Himalayan region of Ladakh, India. He become a disciple of a renowned scholar and celebrated Buddhist monk, Venerable Acharya Buddharakkhita Mahathera, the abbot of the Mahabodhi Society, Bangalore, South India. In 1986, Venerable Sanghasena founded the Mahabodhi International Meditation Centre (MIMC) in Ladakh. The Gandhi Peace Foundation, India honored him with its prestigious "World Peace Award for the Year 2004" in recognition of his work for world peace and interfaith service and inter-religious harmony. In 1999, his name was included in the prestigious book "Marquis' Who's Who". "Marquis Who's who" believes that men and women around the globe whose achievements influence the people of today are worthy of permanent record. Venerable Sanghasena was recognized as the "Man of the Year 2002" by The American Biographical Institute, Inc. The Dharma Buddhist University of Malaysia, conferred their Honourary Degree of the Doctorate of Philosophy to Venerable Sanghasena in the year 2009. Recently on the occasion of "World Management Congress" Ven. Sanghasena was awarded with the "Lifetime Achievement Award" in the area of spirituality and religious studies, which was jointly constituted and awarded by International Association of Educators for World Peace IAEWP ( Affiliated to United Nations), based in USA, the Global Open University Nagaland, Confederation of Indian Universities, the Educational Standards and Testing Council of India and Clean up the Earth held at India International Centre, New Delhi on 30-31st of December, 2010. He urges everyone to promote spiritual and cultural values, literacy, environmental protection, non-violence, inter-religious harmony and co-existence, global villages and world peace. He actively supports the elevation of the status of all women, poverty stricken people and raises his voice against destructive armaments, destruction of the environment and ecology, human injustice, consumerism, economic imbalance and racism.