On 29 April 2018, Miss Venus Asawapoom, Acting Consul-General, and Mr. Nutt Svasti-Salee, Consul, Royal Thai Consulate-General, Kolkata, attended the Buddhajayantī 2562 celebration organised by the Maha Bodhi Society of India, a Kolkata-based Theravāda Buddhist Society founded in 1891, which played roles in reviving Buddhism in India. Chief justice Chittatosh Mookerjee presided over the sermon session (Dharma Sabha), during which the Lord Buddha’s teachings were notably elaborated and explained by Ven. M. Medhankara Therō, Bhikku-in-charge of the Maha Bodhi Society of India. Other attendants from the diplomatic corps were Mr. Thinlay Wangchuk, Consul-General of Bhutan, and Mr. Mazayuki Taga, Consul-General of Japan. Buddhist sermons were given in English, Hindi and Bengali (official local language in Kolkata and West Bengal) during the ceremony.​