The local Buddhist community has built a new meditation centre in Brno, the Moravian capital and the Czech Republic’s second largest city with a population of 500,000, Marketa Blazejovska, from the community, has told CTK.
The new building worth 24 million crowns, named the Diamond Path House, has replaced the Buddhist community’s old headquarters, situated elsewhere, that had run out of capacity and could not be extended.
A half of the new building’s costs were financed from a grant, and the rest from an interest-free loan from a private foundation.
The debt has been repaid through donations from the centre members and supporters from the…