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05/14/2008 03:44 AM |
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Dalai Lama absent as Vietnam hosts Buddhist festival (IANS via Yahoo! India News) |
Hanoi, May 14 (DPA) Thousands of Buddhist clergy and lay people from over 80 countries opened a four-day festival in Hanoi Wednesday celebrating Vesak, an international holiday commemorating the birth of the Buddha some 2,500 years ago.
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05/14/2008 12:09 AM |
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Book on Buddhist temples published to welcome Vesak (Vietnam Net) |
VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam has especially published an English language version of the best selling book “Buddhist Temples” to welcome the UN Day of Vesak, which is slated to begin in Ha Noi on May 14.
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05/14/2008 03:13 AM |
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Dalai Lama absent as Vietnam hosts Buddhist festival (EARTHtimes.org) |
Hanoi - Thousands of Buddhist clergy and lay people from over 80 countries opened a four-day festival in Hanoi Wednesday celebrating Vesak, an international holiday commemorating the birth of the Buddha some 2,500 years ago. With shaven-headed monks ...
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05/13/2008 06:15 PM |
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UCTV Joins North American Chinese IPTV Service; KyLinTV Expands Programming to Offer Buddhist Channel (Broadcast Newsroom) |
PLAINVIEW, N.Y., May 13 /PRNewswire/ -- KyLinTV announces today the 42nd live broadcast channel to join its program line-up. UCTV is now available on KyLinTV as the first Buddhist channel from Southern Taiwan making its debut on television outside of the Asian region.
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05/12/2008 12:59 AM |
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Fire at Buddhist temple kills 7 in Indonesia (Reuters via Yahoo! News) |
A fire ripped through a Buddhist temple in Indonesia's North Sumatra province at the weekend, killing seven people and injuring eight, police said on Monday.
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05/14/2008 04:54 AM |
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U.N. Buddhist event in Vietnam remembers disaster victims (AlertNet) |
Source: Reuters HANOI, May 14 (Reuters) - Victims of China's earthquake and Myanmar's cyclone were remembered on Wednesday when Buddhists opened a rare international religious event in Vietnam, whose critics accuse ...
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05/12/2008 04:19 AM |
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Fire at Indonesian Buddhist temple kills 7 (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) |
A fire ripped through a Buddhist temple in Indonesia's North Sumatra province at the weekend, killing seven people and injuring eight, police said.
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05/14/2008 05:20 AM |
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RATE THIS ARTICLE (Crosswalk.com) |
(CNSNews.com) - A U.N.-sponsored international event marking the Buddhist religion's "contribution to building a just, democratic and civilized society" has begun in Vietnam, but critics are questioning the suitability of the venue, given the communist government's record on religious freedom and political dissent.
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05/12/2008 04:56 AM |
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Buddhist nuns held after anti-China protest in Nepal (Daily Mirror) |
Buddhist nuns were among 600 female protesters rounded up as police cracked down on anti-China demos in Nepal yesterday.
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05/12/2008 09:37 AM |
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Buddhist nuns among female Tibetan protesters detained in Nepal protests (New Kerala) |
London, May 12 : Police in Nepal have arrested more than 600 female Tibetan protesters, including many Buddhist nuns, after demonstrations in Kathmandu against China's crackdown in Tibet.
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