Apart from Vihar, Monastery, Chaitya and Gonpo, now 'Flame of Hope' has also been added for visiting here. Wishing for world peace, the light of hope was lit in the old Rajkiya Vihar (Nepal Temple) in Lumbini by a mixture of lamps brought from 15 places in 9 different countries.

This lamp has been named the light of hope in the royal vihara located east of Mayadevi Temple, the birthplace of Buddha.

The lamp is lit here from a mixture of lamps collected from various places in the Netherlands, Japan, America, Italy, France, Israel, India, Nepal and Palestine. "The 16th lamp has been lit by combining 15 lamps in Lumbini. It always gives light,'' said Bhikshu Sagar Dhamma, 'Such lamps are rare in the world.' Likewise, lamps have been collected and lit from Hiroshima, Nagasaki, the fountain of world peace, the place of peace, and the birth place of Jesus Christ. In this way, 69-year-old Japanese monk Rekyu Indo did the job of collecting lamps and lighting them in Lumbini.

Under a 300-year-old Peepal tree on the south side of the Vihar, an unbroken lamp is lit facing north. According to Buddhist traditions, the lamp was lit by Therabadi, Mahayani and Chinese monks after reciting Mangal . Japanese monk Indo said that he came up with the idea of ​​working for peace, even if it was small, while traveling abroad as an expert and instructor of the Japanese therapy treatment method Zen Shiatsu.

'In 2014, it was very painful to see that both legs of a 3-year-old girl were damaged by a bomb in Palestine. After that, I thought that some campaign should be conducted for peace,' he said.

He said that the devastation of the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in his own country and the suffering he saw in Palestine gave him the energy to spread the message of peace. After that, he embarked on a campaign of peace, initially in 2015, Nagasaki-Hiroshima-Kyoto-Tokyo, which was devastated by the atomic bomb, went on a peace bicycle tour.

He said that he spent two weeks preaching about peace and completed a 1,300-kilometer bicycle journey. He started collecting peace lamps from Nagasaki, Japan in 2019. Lumbini includes the Peace Lamp of Hiroshima, the nuclear flame burning in Hoshino, Japan, the Peace Light of Bethlehem from the Church of the Nativity where Jesus Christ is believed to have been born, the Flame of Commitment from Olympia to Nagasaki, and the Outer Flame of Yad Basem Jerusalem.

The lamp of the Center in the United States founded in the name of Martin Luther King, the leader of the non-violent movement against apartheid and inequality in the United States and the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, the lamp of the apparition cave in Lourdes, France, which is considered sacred, the Kukai lamp, which is believed to have been burning for 1200 years in the Recado Mandap on Mount Misen in Miyajima, Japan, the lamp placed in the mausoleum of Mahatma Gandhi in Rajghat, Delhi, India, and the Netherlands. The lamp of the Freedom Fire in Wageningen is also included.

The 450-year-old lamp in Japan's Honganji Vihar, the symbolic lamp of peace in Assisi, Italy, the Akhand Shanti lamp in Lumbini, Nepal, the sacred aster flame brought from Jerusalem, and Dr. Monk Indo said that Akhand Deep placed near the statue of Bhimraj Ambedkar was also included.

Monk Indo is also a practitioner of Tao Shiatsu, a Japanese healing system . He travels to Israel every year since 2015 to teach shiatsu to doctors trained in western medicine. At the Fukujuso Psychiatric Hospital in Okinawa, he became a good doctor while treating and teaching patients.

In 1991, he received a black belt in Aikido. Then took to Buddhism . Completed studies in Buddhism. Became a Buddhist priest. Now he is the head of the Wada Temple in Kyoto. He is also a lyricist and music composer. He has written 8 books. Some books have been translated into 6 different languages.