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Boy monks keep ethnic culture alive

Editor: Deng Shasha, Xinhua News, Nov 16, 2009

KUNMING, China -- A 6:30 a.m., Yan Guanghan has finished chanting his daily sutras for an hour. It's time for the 10-year-old to go to school.

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Air taxi service connecting Buddhist sites in Bihar

PTI, Nov 16, 2009

Patna, India -- With an increase in tourist flow to Bihar, an air taxi service connecting various Buddhist sites in the state would be launched soon.

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Preserve Buddhist culture, Dalai tells Bomdi-la people

TNN, 13 November 2009

Bomdi-la, India -- The long-cherished dream of people of Bomdi-la, a tranquil and desolate township in Arunachal Pradesh's West Kameng district, was fulfilled on Friday when they got a glimpse of the Dalai Lama who arrived here the previous day.

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Monks, Nuns Gather Donations for Burmese Refugees

By KO HTWE, The Irrawaddy, November 16, 2009

Chiang Mai, Thailand -- More than 200 Buddhist monks and nuns asked for alms donations in Chiang Mai, Thailand, on Monday to send to Burmese refugees who live in camps along the Thailand-Burma border.

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Shaolin Temple Under Hacker Attack

By Ellen Zhu, WSJ, November 13, 2009

Beijing, China -- Shaolin Temple, the world-famous birthplace of Chinese Kung Fu, was attacked by hackers twice this month, reflecting long-standing ill feeling about the temple’s aggressive commercial activities in recent years.

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Ancient Buddhist monastery conserved in SW China's Tibet

Xinhua, Nov 12, 2009

LHASA, Tibet (China) -- First-phase of the project to conserve a more-than-1,000-year-old Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Ngari prefecture of southwestern China's Tibet Autonomous Region has been completed, and the second phase will begin soon.

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