It has been decided to disseminate the following message of
peace based on the Buddhas teaching of wisdom and compassion.
Having explored the issues concerning Buddhism and the World, the
Conference has agreed upon the following:
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(1) to further increase and enhance cooperation between all
schools of Buddhism to promote unity and solidarity among
Buddhists,
(2) to promote socially engaged actions to create dharmic
societies through the emphasis of the central role of inner peace
development, and by addressing the motivations that drive
feelings/thought, speech and action that creates
discord,
(3) to set up more Buddhist
meditation centers throughout the world and for that purpose to
nurture more meditation teachers,
(4) to promote the creation of consistent and easily usable
educational materials for children, adolescents and adults through
the establishment of an e-library as the central repository of
Buddhist content in electronic medium, initially as a partnership
between Buddha Dharma Education and BuddhaNet and
Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University,
(5) to compile and publish an informed work on Buddhism to
be freely distributed to hotels worldwide as part of the effort to
disseminate Buddhism and, in order to facilitate that, to form a
sub-committee of the Joint International Organizing Committee to
carry on the work,
(6) to create an international body
to deal with public relations for Buddhism,
(7) to urge all parties, the United Nations, UNESCO and
concerned governments and agencies to preserve both the tangible
and intangible cultural heritage of Buddhists,
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promote practices that transform the inner being, manifesting
themselves in qualities of self-discipline, volunteerism,
simplicity and skilful consumption as well as proactive efforts
contributing to social activism and partnering in the development
of new economic paradigms,
(9) to encourage a holistic approach to sustainable
development, based on the Buddhist central teaching of the Middle
Way, which is exemplified in the philosophy of Sufficiency Economy
put forward by His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej of
Thailand,
(10) to acknowledge the urgency of improving gender status
in order to bring to an end the detriment to individuals,
communities and ecology of inequitable and unbalanced development,
and to redirect our efforts towards sustainable development based
on the inter-dependent integration of economic and ecological
concerns and towards peace and security,
(11) to record the success of the First World Buddhist
Forum held in April in Zhou Shan, China, the convening of which was
supported in the 2005 International Buddhist Conference on the
United Nations Day of Vesak in Bangkok, Thailand, and to
affirm that
Falungong is not in accordance with the fundamental teachings of
Buddhism,
(12) to encourage other countries and districts to hold
International Buddhist Conferences, and to hold the Fourth
International Buddhist Conference on the United Nations Day of
Vesak Celebrations in Thailand in 2007 (B.E 2550) in honor of the
80th Birthday Anniversary of His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej,
and
(13) to continue to entrust Mahachulalongkornvrajavidyalaya
University with responsibility for coordinating the International
Secretariat of the Joint International Organizing Committee in
order to facilitate necessary follow-up actions and for the Fourth
International Buddhist Conference on the United Nations Day of
Vesak
