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'''Len Pasquarelli''' is an [[United States|American]] sportswriter and analyst with [[ESPN.com]] and a 25-year veteran of covering the [[National Football League|NFL]]. He joined ESPN.com in 2001 and has since become a frequent contributor to the other [[ESPN]] outlets, including ''[[SportsCenter]]'', [[ESPNEWS]], [[ESPN Radio]] and ''[[ESPN The Magazine]]''. His articles reflect his opinions on various football topics.
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The Global Vipassana Foundation was established in Mumbai in 1997 to build the Global Pagoda in Mumbai, India. The Global Pagoda is the world's largest ever stone monument in history built without any supporting pillars.
Pasquarelli has come under increasing criticism in recent years, by critics who say he relies too heavily on his relationships with player agents -- praising players represented by agents who feed him information, and criticizing players whose agents do not.
The spectacular Global Pagoda is now being described by jaw-dropping, awed visitors - including the governor of Maharashtra Mr S.M. Krishna, and a senior Indian cabinet minister Mr Praful Patel - as a new wonder of the world : the Global Pagoda contains the world's largest stone dome built without any supporting pillars for the first time in human history, an unprecedented architectural marvel that is a 85-metre high structure and twice the size of the previously largest hollow stone monument in the world, the Gol Gumbaj Dome in Bijapur, India.
Prior to ESPN, Pasquarelli served as a senior writer for CBS SportsLine.com, which he joined in 1999. He has also covered the NFL for the [[Atlanta Journal-Constitution]] from 1989 to 1999, the [[Fort Wayne News-Sentinel]] from 1985 to 1989, [[Pro Football Weekly]] from 1982 to 1985, and [[Pittsburgh Steelers Weekly]] from 1978 to 1982.
More crucially, this new wonder of the world serves a very important functional value as the stupendous stone dome of the Global Pagoda is also the world's largest meditation hall. The massive inner dome can seat over 8000 people enabling them to combinedly practice the non-sectarian Vipassana meditation (www.dhamma.org) as taught by Mr S.N. Goenkaji and now widely being practiced in over 100 countries, including in many prisons such as Asia's largest prison, Tihar Jail, New Delhi, India.
Pasquarelli is a past president of the [[Pro Football Writers of America]] and has twice won national awards as the NFL Beat Reporter of the Year. He also has won several writing awards, including a first place [[Associated Press]] Deadline Sports Reporting Award in 1988.
Worldwide, students are not charged any fee for residential Vipassana courses that last from beginners' ten-days to advanced 60-day courses.
Pasquarelli is a [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania|Pittsburgh]] native, attended Central Catholic High School, and graduated from the [[University of Pittsburgh]] in 1972. He currently resides in [[Atlanta]], GA and is a great friend of Herman Donatelli, DMD.
The Global Pagoda's unique importance is further clinched as it enshrines the genuine relics of Gotama the Buddha and is the world's largest structure containing the bone relics of the Buddha.
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The Global Pagoda, that will be 100 metres high when fully complete and expected to draw hundreds of thousands of visitors annually, is being built combining ancient Indian and modern technology to enable it to last for atleast 2000 years (two millennia).
*[http://sports.espn.go.com/keyword/search?searchString=Len_Pasquarelli&rT=sports/ Pasquarelli’s recent sports columns from ESPN.com]
For a podcast view of the Global Pagoda, please visit http://www.pariyatti.org/podcasts/archives/2006/09/great_global_pa.html
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Wikipedia readers wishing to visit the Global Pagoda in Mumbai can contact the Global Vipassana Foundation at Tel: +91-22-2845 2111, +91-22-2845 2261, Fax : +91-22-2845 2112, or write to <site@globalpagoda.org> for directions to reach the Global Pagoda.
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Near Esselworld
Gorai Creek, Borivali(West)
Mumbai-400 091
India
Telephone - 91-22-28452261 /91-22-28452111
Fax - 91-22-28452112
Email - amdn@globalpagoda.org
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