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December 2nd, 2008 - 1:04 am ICT by IANS
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Patna, Dec 1 (IANS) Buddhist monks and devotees from across the globe Monday offered prayers for world peace at the revered Mahabodhi temple in Bodh Gaya, considered the birthplace of Buddhism. It ...
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December 1st, 2008 - 7:09 pm ICT by ANI
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Bodh Gaya (Bihar), Dec 1 (ANI): Hundreds of Buddhist monks and devotees from across the globe gathered in Bodh Gaya for an eleven-day long chanting prayer ceremony for world peace that ...
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November 23rd, 2008 - 4:20 pm ICT by IANS
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Nanjing, Nov 23 (Xinhua) Buddhist monks and scholars from around the world will gather at a forum in China in March next year to discuss how Buddhism can contribute to the building ...
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November 22nd, 2008 - 3:06 pm ICT by ANI
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Rangoon, Nov.22 (ANI): Secret courts in Burma have sentenced a popular comedian and a hip-hop star to hefty jail terms as the military regime of that country continues to crack down ...
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November 21st, 2008 - 11:58 am ICT by IANS
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New Delhi, Nov 21 (IANS) Buddhism will have to evolve rites and rituals to become more socially relevant in Asian nations, including India, where people identify religion with prayer rites, feels ...
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November 18th, 2008 - 2:03 pm ICT by IANS
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Kathmandu, Nov 18 (IANS) Former Indian president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam's maiden visit to Nepal was hailed as a matter of pride and recognition for the new Himalayan republic that gave a rapturous ...
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November 16th, 2008 - 12:26 am ICT by IANS
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Yangon, Nov 15 (DPA) Prominent Myanmar dissident Min Ko Naing and eight other student activists have been sentenced to 65 years in prison in an ongoing judicial crackdown on opposition to the ...
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November 8th, 2008 - 1:55 pm ICT by ANI
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Bodh Gaya (Bihar), Nov 8 (ANI): Buddhist monks from across the country participated in a sacred ceremony at Bodh Gaya, one of the most important pilgrim centre of the Buddhists, and ...
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November 3rd, 2008 - 8:45 pm ICT by ANI
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By Surya Pratap Singh
Bodh Gaya, Nov.3 (ANI): A group of Buddhist monks in Bodh Gaya conducted prayers for the world peace in a special annual ceremony, which was attended by about ...
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October 31st, 2008 - 2:55 pm ICT by IANS
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Dharamsala, Oct 31 (IANS) Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama Friday reached Japan where he will deliver a two-day lecture series on spirituality, beginning Nov 4."He (the Dalai Lama) reached Japan Friday ...
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October 26th, 2008 - 3:04 pm ICT by ANI
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Rajgir (Bihar), Oct 26 (ANI): Hundreds of Buddhist monks from India and abroad gathered in Rajgir in Bihar to pray for world peace.
The prayers were held as part of 39th anniversary ...
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October 13th, 2008 - 12:17 pm ICT by ANI
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New Delhi, Oct 13 (ANI): Gujarat State Archaeological Department has discovered a small size Buddhist monastery in Gujarats Vadnagar, which dates back to 1,900 years.
According to a report in Desh Gujarat, ...
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September 26th, 2008 - 1:21 pm ICT by ANI
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Yangon (Myanmar), Sept.26 (ANI): The ruling military junta in Myanmar still remains in firm control of the country and its affairs even a year after it began a deadly crackdown on ...
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September 22nd, 2008 - 2:36 pm ICT by ANI
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London, Sept.22 (ANI): Burma has launched a ferocious "cyber-war" against dissidents who use the Internet. According to The Times, in the past few days anti-government online magazines run by exiled Burmese ...
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August 9th, 2008 - 1:40 pm ICT by ANI
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Dharamshala/Shimla/Varanasi, Aug 9 (ANI): As China opened the Olympics with a burst of fireworks at a spectacular ceremony on Friday, hundreds of exiled Tibetans held a candlelight vigil in Dharamsala to ...
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August 7th, 2008 - 8:38 pm ICT by ANI
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Dharamsala, August 7 (ANI): Maroon robed Buddhist monks led thousands of Tibetan exiles on Thursday as they marched through the streets of Dharamsala to mourn the deaths of fellow countrymen in ...
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July 17th, 2008 - 12:50 pm ICT by IANS
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By Pranay Sharma
Beijing/Lhasa, July 17 (IANS) China's rapid economic reforms could have been one of the main reasons for the violent riots in Tibet in March in which Buddhist monks played a ...
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July 14th, 2008 - 2:05 pm ICT by ANI
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London, July 14 (ANI): Internal Communist party documents have revealed that China is planning a programme of harsh political repression in Tibet despite a public show of moderation to win over ...
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June 23rd, 2008 - 8:45 pm ICT by IANS
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Patna, June 23 (IANS) Missing precious ornaments and jewellery donated by devotees to the Bodh Gaya Mahabodhi temple, among the holiest Buddhist sites in the world, have been recovered from the room ...
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June 19th, 2008 - 1:44 pm ICT by IANS
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DPA
Yangon, June 19 (DPA) Myanmar authorities Thursday arrested at least 30 supporters of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi who had gathered to protest her five years of imprisonment on her birthday, ...
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June 18th, 2008 - 8:35 pm ICT by IANS
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DPA
Yangon, June 18 (DPA) The European Union (EU) should use their meeting in Brussels Thursday to back a call to bring Myanmar's junta chief to be tried in the international court for ...
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June 6th, 2008 - 1:07 pm ICT by ANI
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New Delhi, June 6 (ANI): Sixteen Buddhist monks have been arrested for allegedly triggering explosions in Qamdo prefecture of the Tibet autonomous region.
Chogyal, Tenphel and three other monks of the Wese ...
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May 29th, 2008 - 10:52 pm ICT by admin
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DPA
Yangon, May 29 (DPA) Myanmar Thursday adopted a new constitution that guarantees military control over future elected governments after a heavily-criticised national referendum approved the charter with a more than 90 percent ...
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May 23rd, 2008 - 5:11 pm ICT by admin
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Vilnius (Lithuania), May 23 (ANI): Lithuanian archaeologists, carrying out excavation work in the Ghor province of Afghanistan, have collected large amounts of evidence about cultures that prospered in the region centuries ...
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May 21st, 2008 - 6:43 pm ICT by admin
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Patna, May 21 (IANS) Dalit leader and Republican Party of India (RPI) MP Ramdas Athavale has come out in support of monks demanding Buddhist control over the Mahabodhi temple in Bodh Gaya, ...
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May 20th, 2008 - 2:07 pm ICT by admin
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Kathmandu, May 20 (IANS) The chief of Nepal's Maoist party, a former guerrilla organisation that fought a 10-year savage civil war to overthrow the constitutional monarchy, has likened himself to the great ...
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May 17th, 2008 - 7:17 pm ICT by admin
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Patna, May 17 (IANS) The Mahabodhi temple in Bihar's Bodh Gaya, Buddhism's holiest shrine, has got a governing panel after a gap of eight months. The Bihar government has issued a notification ...
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May 12th, 2008 - 2:35 pm ICT by admin
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DPA
Bangkok, May 12 (DPA) A US military aircraft left Thailand's U-Tapao Airbase Monday to deliver emergency aid to neighbouring Myanmar in the wake of a cyclone that has left an estimated 100,000 ...
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May 9th, 2008 - 5:25 pm ICT by admin
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DPA
Bangkok, May 9 (DPA) Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej Friday abruptly cancelled plans to fly to Yangon over the weekend to persuade the ruling Myanmar junta to accept aid workers and supplies ...
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May 6th, 2008 - 1:08 pm ICT by admin
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Karachi, May 6 (ANI): A delegation of the Pakistan-India Peoples Forum for Peace and Democracy carried a pot containing the ashes of Indian leader Nirmala Deshpande to Karachi last evening to ...
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