Kalinga War Memorial : Peace Pagoda at Dhauligiri Hill

This is the Shanti Stupa (or Peace Pagoda) at the Dhauligiri hills in Bhubaneswar, India. It was here at Dhauligiri that emperor Ashok laid down the weapons of violence and accepted a life of Ahimsa in the form of Buddhism after the Kalinga war. This Buddhist structure was built jointly in 1972 by the Japan Buddha Sangh and the Kalinga Nippon Buddha Sangh.