Buddhist group: Don’t allow religious and ethnic lines to worsen


From right: IKIM director general Datuk Nik Mustapha Nik Hassan and JUST secretary general Anas Zubedy with other delegates at International Buddhist-Muslim Forum on Peace & Sustainability. RAYMOND OOI/ The Star

KUALA LUMPUR: Isolation between races and cultures will lead to mistrust and fear as groups grow more separate, warns an international Buddhist group.

The chairman of the International Network of Engaged Buddhists (INEB), Dr Harsha Kumara Navaratne, from Sri Lanka, said isolation would happen if a country allowed religious and ethnic lines to worsen.

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