Swami Vivekananda Cultural Center inaugurated in Beijing
- By Gong Yingchun
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India's Swami Vivekananda Cultural Center unveiled its plans at the Embassy of India in Beijing on Tuesday, establishing a platform to promote Indian culture and people-to-people exchanges between the two countries.
"It is apt that the Swami Vivekananda Cultural Center will promote India's great traditions amongst our friends in China," said India's Ambassador to China Gautam Bambawale during a welcome address at the ceremony.
During an informal meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Wuhan in April, President Xi Jinping stressed China stood ready to work with India to establish a closer partnership of development, in a bid to promote all-round progress in exchanges and cooperation between the two countries in various areas.
"We are neighbors. We are well-wishers," Bambawale said, adding that the activities held in the cultural center "will bring together the hearts of the people of China and the people of India."
Shri Vinay Sahasrabuddhe Ji, president of Indian Council for Cultural Relations, said in a keynote speech that the Swami Vivekananda Cultural Center would work towards creating understanding about Indian thinking through multiple activities, programs and projects.
He noted that people in every corner of the world are curious about India. "We have to further translate this curiosity into goodwill and later to convert this goodwill into a deeper understanding about India," he said.
The cultural center is named after Indian Hindu monk Swami Vivekananda, a key philosopher, ideologist and religious reformer who played an important role in introducing Indian philosophies of Vedanta and Yoga to the world.
At the inauguration ceremony, artists from India and China presented Indian traditional art performances, such as instrumental music, Kathak dance and Bharatanatyam dance.
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