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Save the Bhavana Monastery

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Save the Bhavana Monastery

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/saveBhavanamonastery/?e

As friends of the Bhavana Society Buddhist Monastery and lovers of peaceful, contemplative retreats, we the undersigned oppose the Allegheny Power Company's (TrAIL)
transmission line proposal as a violation of the sanctity of our place in Beautiful West Virginia.
The Power Company is now considering a route change for it's TrAIL 500 Kilovolt line through Hampshire County, West Virginia. The Bhavana Society Forest Monastery and Meditation Center is located on Back Creek Road in the Capon Valley of Hampshire County. We recently learned that a new route has been proposed to avoid an auto junkyard which would severely encroach on the monastery property. Apart from the health concerns due to close proximity to electromagnetic radiation, this would seriously infringe on the peaceful nature of our place of worship and the integrity of our contemplative way of life. We are the only Theravada Buddhist forest monastery in the eastern U.S. and one of only a handful in all of North America. Many hundreds of people visit us every year from not only West Virginia and surrounding areas, but all over the U.S. and abroad. A unique cultural and spiritual resource, visitors spend time here in prayer and meditation in the peaceful setting of the forest.
We protest the disfigurement of a beautiful forest monastery and spiritual refuge in order to save a junkyard. We, the undersigned, strongly urge the Power Company to move the power line route so it would traverse the center of the junkyard property, so as to keep the Bhavana monastery intact and relatively secluded from the ugly eyesore which the wide swath of the power line will create.

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