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Bodhi – in Pali and Sanskrit literature means Awakening, is a title given in Buddhism to the specific awakening experience attained by Buddha. Bodhi is most commonly translated into English as enlightenment; however, a more accurate translation is awakening or understanding. After attainment of Bodhi, it is believed one is freed from the cycle of Samsara: Birth, Suffering, Death and Rebirth. Bodhi is attained only by the accomplishment of the Paramitas (perfections), when the Four Noble Truths are fully grasped and when all Karma has reached cessation. Satellite technology has stirred a revolution that is altering the lives of millions of people in the world, overcoming the barriers of climate and geography, leap-fogging technological gaps in reaching the message of various subjects to the largest cross section of the society and bridging the information and knowledge gap existed between countries and people. An initiative is underway from private initiative to utilize such technology to propagate Buddhism and to bring live glimpse of Lumbini, the birthplace of Lord Buddha to the World in conformity with the policy of government of promote Nepal. This will not only open new horizon for the Buddhist followers of world but also contribute to promoting image of Nepal with the message of peace. Bodhi Television, a dedicated satellite television organization, has been established to with the objective of disseminating information on matters related to different aspects enlightenment process of teaching of Buddha. It aims to bring the most enhanced and professional satellite television broadcasting service first of its kind to Nepal and then gradually to Asia and finally to the rest of the world as exponent of Buddha and Buddhism for the attainment of Nirvana. The process of understanding peace building measure with noble guidance of Buddha, in today's chaotic world, can be one essential approach to strengthening and promoting harmony among all living beings. Promoting of the teaching and message of peace from Buddha will be the perpetual effort of bodhi Television. Establishment and promotion of peace in the present world is the most important subject for all of us. In this context, it is necessary and important to educate, inform and motivate the people from all over the world about the importance of peace for which the dissemination of the teaching of Lord Buddha is vital tools. Bodhi is a Television channel that, at the core of it carries the moss at compassionate feeling of helping world peace through audio/ visual broadcast. The programming will contain discourses by Buddhist scholars and Venerable Gurus, documentaries, travelogues, most soothing musical performances, talk programs with venerable gurus, teaching of methods of meditation, history, news from around the world and many more including language teaching and scripts such as Pali, Sanskrit, Chinese, Japanese, Tibetan etc. among others. As our primary goal, we are focused on delivering contents related to Buddhism, Teachings, and Practices through the window of Lumbini to the World. The challenging part of this broadcasting will be the Balance of Contents to the followers of different practices without criticizing or promoting any one practice over the others. The core concept of this channel will be to carry the message of Buddha through neutral contents to the world from the birthplace of Shakyamuni Buddha, Lumbini In this way, Buddhism adapts itself to the culture and the mentality of the people in each society, while preserving the major teachings of Buddha. The principal teachings are not changed – the aim is to overcome our problems and limitations and to realize our potentials. Whether practitioners do this with more emphasis on the psychological, intellectual, scientific, or devotional approach depends on the culture. Buddhism appeals very much to the modern world because it is reasonable and scientifically based. Buddha said, "Do not believe in anything that I say just out of respect for me, but test it for yourself, analyze it, as if you were buying gold." Modern-day people like such a no dogmatic approach. Bodhi will also work towards a greater goal of world peace through spreading messages of racial harmony and work heart to heart with other popular faiths. Thus creating a great wave of racial and religious harmony and the synergy will then be used for the greatest attainment of our times – Peace above everything else.