PlantingCeremony

2021

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10 AprUpdated in 2023

Garden Primary School, Bariano
Bergamo, Italy

17 AprKunpen Lama Gangchen
Albagnano,Verbania, Italy

24 JulCistude Nature Park
Bordeaux, France

14 Nov

Memorial Park (Parco della Trucca)
Bergamo, Italy

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Garden Primary School,
BarianoItaly
Bergamo
10 April, 2021

Initially planned for 2020, this tree planting ceremony faced postponement due to theemergence of the COVID-19 pandemic. Eventually, amid the ongoing pandemic, the tree wasplanted in a scaled-down ceremony, attended by only a handful of individuals representing theproject's creators.
The mayor of the town in the lower Bergamo area Andrea Rota with a speech that reminded
everyone that as soon as possible there will be a big party around this tree with the presenceof children, thanked all the volunteers who allowed the arrival of this symbol of peace.
Many works, proposed by the different classes, were hung around the tree. The event isscheduled for 2022, on the birthday of the kaki, with the hope that this pandemic will haveresolved itself.

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Kunpen Lama Gangchen
Italy
Albagnano (Verbania)
17 April, 2021

This ceremony was organized by our partner
Flavia Milesi, who had already organizedceremonies in the Bergamo area. She
proposed to the Albagnano Tibetan Buddhist
center that they plant a tree to remember
Lama Gangchen Tulku Rinpoche, whose
real name was Thinley Yarpel Lama Shresta(7.7.1941- 18.4.2020). He was one of themost important Buddhist masters belonging tothe latest generation of lamas of old Tibet.
"Inner peace is the most solid foundation
for peace in the world." This is one of his
most important teachings. Recognized andrenowned as a spiritual guide and life master,
he is, and will remain, a point of reference
for tens of thousands of people, not only
Buddhists, all over the world.
The ceremony was carried out with great simplicity, but with a great spirit of peace, and was
led by Lama Michel Rinpoche, who has been the architect and responsible for the design andconstruction of the Temple of Heaven on Earth at the Albagnano Healing Meditation Center inVerbania since 2018.

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FranceBordeaux
24 July 2021

On July 2nd, 3rd, and 4th, 2021, the 20th anniversarycelebration of tree planting was held at the Cistude Nature Parkin Bordeaux, France. The "A-Bombed Kaki Tree II" at Cistude
Nature Park was planted on March 21, 1999 and has grown
healthy and strong ever since.
The anniversary celebration began with a park tour forparticipants to discover the world of plants on July 2nd. OnJuly 3rd and 4th, workshops and performances by many
artists were held to celebrate the 20th anniversary of theA-Bombed Kaki Tree II.

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Memorial Park(Parco Della Trucca)
Italy
Bergamo
14 November, 2021

The KAKI TREE EUROPE board wished to honor
the memory of the thousands of people who losttheir lives in the Bergamo area due to COVID-19.
At the Parco della Memoria, situated right infront of the PAPA GIOVANNI XXIII hospitalwhich served as a critical epicenter of thepandemic spread in Italy, the municipality ofBergamo, with whom a close relationship exists
through Councilor Marzia Marchesi, inaugurated a park. Within this park, various plants
have been meticulously planted, each dedicated to the remembrance of an individual who
succumbed to the virus.
We introduced a second-generation Kaki tree from Nagasaki, which was ceremoniously
planted in the presence of both Councilor Marzia Marchesi and Councilor Miriam Cominellifrom Brescia, who consistently attends our events. The presence of the Brescia councilor isalso prompted by the substantial toll that COVID-19 took in the Brescia region.
Alongside the board of KAKI TREE EUROPE, representatives from several organizations
collaborating with us in the Bergamo area for the KAKI TREE project attended the ceremony.
These included the Italian-Japanese cultural group KOKORO and Flavia Milesi.
Despite the persistent rainthat morning, the ceremony
proceeded, bearing significant
importance and emotional
resonance as a tribute tothose who tragically lost theirlives in 2020 and 2021.

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