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Nepalnews.com, December 02, 2004
Kathmandu, Nepal -- UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in a statement on Wednesday has sent his greetings to the ongoing 2nd World Buddhist Summit in Lumbini, the birthplace of Lord Gautam Buddha.
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Daily Times (Pakistan), (AFP), Dec 1, 2004
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- Buddhist monks prayed for world peace Tuesday at the start of a conference in the Nepal village of Lumbini - revered as Buddha?s birthplace - that is aimed at promoting the site as a ?city of world peace.?
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Xinhuanet, Nov 30, 2004
LUMBINI, Nepal -- The Second Buddhist Summitkicked off Tuesday in Nepal's southern city of Lumbini, the birthplace of Lord Buddha, with an aim to promote world peace.
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By Pawan Sharma, Hindustan Times, November 29, 2004
Dharamsala, India -- THE INCREASING anxiety of Tibetans regarding the impending execution of their religious leader Tulku Tenzin Delek, manifested into a novel and creative method of protest on late Sunday evening.
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Nepalnews.com, November 29, 2004
Kathmandu, Nepal -- President of the International Buddhist Federation (IBF), Dr Lam, today appealed to the King, the government and the Maoist rebels to observe a weeklong cease-fire during the 2nd World Buddhist Summit slated for Nov 30 to Dec 2 in Lumbini, Lord Buddha's birthplace.
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Indo-Asian News Service, Nov 29, 2004
Kathmandu, Nepal -- A Buddhist monk from Vietnam who plans to hold a global peace meet at the spot where Buddha was born is asking the people of Nepal to end all violence.
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PTI, Nov 27, 2004
Varanasi, India -- Grand celebrations to commemorate the 2550th birth anniversary of Lord Buddha is being planned in 2006 with a series of lectures, cultural programmes and other events across the country and abroad.
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Phayul, November 28, 2004
Kathmandu Bhairahawa -- Preparations are at the last stage in Lumbini and its surrounding for the Second International Buddhist Summit that starts from Tuesday. Newly painted monasteries have given a fresh look to the historically and archeologically important town where Lord Buddha was born.
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Indo-Asian News Service, Nov 28, 2004
Kathmandu, India -- India's Minister of State for External Affairs Rao Inderjit Singh will arrive here Monday on a three-day visit to attend the Second World Buddhist Summit that begins Tuesday.
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By D. Amarasiri Weeraratne, The Island, Nov 26, 2004
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- An ola-leaf document called "Churnikapotha" at the Colombo archives contains details of a Kandyan Buddhist mission by royal emissaries to Arahan in Burma in the year 1693 A.D. The purpose was to get a chapter of monks from Burma to revive the Sinhalese order of Buddhist monks. It had disappeared due to the destruction of Buddhist monasteries and temples and the expulsion of Buddhist monks from the low country ruled by the Portuguese. The monks who fled to the Kandyan territory soon became corrupt and died out due to disturbed conditions of war with the Portuguese.
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