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by Elouise Hawkey, Wellington Times, May 28, 2018
Wellington, New Zealand -- Wellington’s Buddhist community has extended an invitation to the general public to attend a special day of birth, death and enlightenment of Buddah this weekend.
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By Samantha Turnbull, Justin Huntsdale and Anthony Scully, ABC North Coast, 7 Jul 2017
Sydney, Australia -- The 2016 census shows Australians are less religious than ever before, but one religion is maintaining its popularity, with diverse celebrations planned across the country this weekend.
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By Samantha Turnbull, ABC North Coast, Dec 15, 2016
New South Wales, Australia -- New South Wales public schools are struggling to keep up with demand for Buddhism scripture teachers.
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by Erin Godwin, Chinchilla News, 15th Oct 2016
Brisbane, Australia -- ONE of Queensland's most violent prisoners, who threw urine and feces at correction officers, says Buddhism has saved him.
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by Sarah Rohweder, Northern Messenger, July 26, 2016
Adelaide, Asutralia -- THE United Vietnamese Buddhist Congregation SA will no longer have to use a small house as a makeshift temple under a new plan to build a worship centre in the north.
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Milton Ulladulla Times, June 16, 2016
Milton, Australia -- Tibetan Buddhist meditation master and respected teacher, Khenpo Ngawang Dhamchoe, will once more offer a weekend of teaching sessions at the Manjushri Buddhist Centre, Milton.
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by Tony Moore, Brisbane Times, April 30 2016
Brisbane, Australia -- There are probably as many Buddhists in Brisbane today as Baptists, if the 2011 Australian Bureau of Statistics data can be a guide.
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ABC, April 2, 2016
Monks will plant trees and chant at the official opening of Adelaide's Buddhist cremation and burial garden on Sunday.
Adelaide, Australia -- Chief executive of the Adelaide Cemeteries Authority Robert Pitt told 891 ABC Adelaide the new spiritual site grew out of an error made during a cremation service more than two years ago.
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by Timna Jacks, The Age, March 20, 2016
Hoa Nghiem Primary School is founded on environmental sustainability and wellbeing - even maths is taught in a thoughtful, compassionate manner.
Melbourne, Australia -- At the foot of a towering pagoda in Springvale, 20 primary school students wave goodbye to their parents.
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by Jade Gailberger, The Advertiser, February 28, 2016
Adelaide, Australia -- AN error at a Buddhist’s funeral has led to the establishment of the first dedicated South Australian burial area for the ancient religion.
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The Buddhist Channel, February 22, 2016
Melbourne, Australia -- SPRINGVALE South is home to Melbourne’s first Buddhist primary school.
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by Marissa Calligeros, The Age, January 19, 2016
Melbourne, Australia -- A woman was lost in the bush for 27 hours at Victorian Buddhist retreat, just one week after another guest was lost in the bush for five days.
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by Michael Inman, The Canberra Times, January 17, 2016
Canberra, Australia -- A sunlit golden umbrella, lowered by a crane on Sunday, has completed external construction of a stunning pagoda in Lyneham.
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by Sarah Rohweder, Adelaide Now, November 11, 2015
Adelaide, Australia -- A BUDDHIST temple that will stand about as tall as a seven-storey apartment building will be built along Salisbury Highway at Parafield Gardens.
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by MEGHAN LAWRENCE, Stuff, September 22 2015
Auckland, New Zealand -- Buddhism is at the heart of Tiffany Singh's latest art installations. The Auckland artist will have 12 works on display in her upcoming exhibition Mahabhuta: The Great Element'jointly presented at Uxbridge Centre for Arts and Culture and the Fo Guang Shan Temple.
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By Emma Simkin, ABC, Aug 20, 2015
Warnervale, Australia -- A $100, 000 model of the Buddhist temple planned for the Central Coast goes on public display.
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by Jackson Stiles, The News Daily, Jul 6, 2015
This faith is larger than Islam, Judaism and Hinduism, yet receives far less attention from governments and the media.
Sydney, Australia -- Australia’s half-a-million Buddhists are largely ignored, its adherents have claimed.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Jun 28, 2015
Bay of Plenty, New Zealand -- It has been almost 30 years since Geshe Jamyang Sherab was last home.
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by Jake Mitra, The Buddhist Channel, April 14, 2015
Perth, Australia -- The spotlight will fall on Perth’s growing role as a cultural and tourism hub for the Australasian region over the August 8–9 weekend this year, when more than 1,000 international and Australian delegates will gather for a unique conference hosted at Perth’s Convention & Exhibition Centre: the 9th Global Conference on Buddhism, themed on Resolving Conflict with Mindfulness.
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Xinhua, March 27, 2015
SYDNEY, Australia -- After more than 1,500 years in existence, Dengfeng’s revered Shaolin Temple is to soon start building its first international outpost in Australia.
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by Emma Partridge, Sydney Morning Herald, March 2, 2015
Wollongong, Australia -- If you don't know whether you'll be prime minister next week – put on your best Sunday shoes, laugh with monks and clean.
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By AGRON LATIFI, The Illawarra Mercury, Feb. 23, 2015
Unanderra, Australia -- It has been 15 years in the making but the wait will be over this Sunday when Australia's first government-accredited Buddhist tertiary institution is officially opened before many guests.
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by Louise Almeida, The Age, January 9, 2015
Melbourne, Australia -- Fake Buddhist monks are scamming well-meaning Melburnians and tourists, Consumer Affairs has warned.
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by Kerry Stewart, ABC, 31 October 2014
A Buddhist monk on a country road
Sydney, Australia -- Buddhist monk Jason Chan has been wandering the east coast of Australia since 2011 barefoot and carrying nothing but his robe and alms bowl. Keeping a diary of efforts to locate Jason in Sydney, Kerry Stewart made some spiritual discoveries of her own.
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by Angela Fedele, http://sourceable.net, 7 October, 2014
Wollongong, Australia -- Wollongong’s Nan Tien Temple has opened Australia’s first Buddhist-run tertiary institution with architecture that is as spiritual as its teachings.
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The Buddhist Channel, Oct 6, 2014
Perth, Australia -- The Phen Dhe Ling Tibetan Buddhist Association will be hosting the creation of a Buddhist Mandala from October 11 to 18, 2014 at its centre in Perth.
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by Jon Andrews, Bayside Leader, August 18, 2014
Melbourne, Australia -- ALONG with the soothing oms of meditation, a Brighton East Buddhist centre will soon be humming with the gentle sounds of sipping coffee.
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by JIMMY THOMSON, Stuff.com, July 30, 2014
Sydney, Australia -- Residents of the exclusive high rise where Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban own three units, have been dragged into a smouldering row over incense burning.
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Hillnews.com.au, June 12, 2014
Northmead, Australia -- A Northmead high school teacher had a surprise visit from the walking Buddhist Monk on Wednesday.
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Whitsunday Times, 29 May 2014
Queensland, Australia -- ONE of China's holiest men, Abbot Daoci, was officially welcomed to the Whitsundays last week, ahead of a free community seminar about the Guan Yin Buddhist faith at the PCYC on Thursday afternoon.
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by Tammy Mills, The Age, May 26, 2014
Melbourne, Australia -- Dodgy Buddhist monks wearing robes that hide tracksuit pants and runners are scamming Melburnians and visitors to the CBD, Consumer Affairs says.
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The Buddhist Channel, 13 May 2014
Queensland, Australia -- The University of Queensland community celebrated the birth, enlightenment and death of Budda at Vesak Day celebrations on Tuesday 13 May.
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by JANINE RANKIN, Stuff, Matrch 5, 2014
Manawatu, New Zealand -- After years of work and a tortuous path through resource consent processes, Palmerston North's Amitabha Buddhist centre is ready to settle into peaceful meditation.
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by Natalie Savino, Derald Sun, February 23, 2014
Yuroke, Australia -- IT MIGHT almost be March, but this weekend will be a celebration of the Tibetan New Year.
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by Emma Kelly, Canberra Times, February 11, 2014
Canberra, Australia -- One of Canberra’s largest residents will be housed in a striking new hub that will cater for the territory’s growing Buddhist population.
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Sydney Morning Herald, January 8, 2014
Sydney, Australia -- NSW Fair Trading has warned people to be on the look-out for con artists dressed as Buddhist monks after dozens of smh.com.au readers said they had been approached by men in orange garb asking for money.
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by Duane Schultz, Northern Messenger, January 9, 2014
Adelaide, Australia -- A PLAN to build Australia's tallest Buddhist temple in Parafield Gardens is in doubt after the Federal Government cut a $150,000 grant to the SA Khmer Buddhist Association.
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By Justin Whitaker , Patheos, December 27, 2013
Sydney, Australia -- This week, the well-known Buddhist web resource Buddhanet launched a mobile site: Buddhist eLibrary.
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3News, 17 Aug 2013
Auckland, New Zealand -- A 58-year-old Buddhist monk has been beaten unconscious and left tied up on the floor of the Quan Am Buddhist Monastery south of Auckland.
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by Duane Schultz, News Review Messenger, June 19, 2013
Salisbury, Australia -- A PLAN to build the tallest Buddhist temple in Australia has been lodged with Salisbury Council.
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by HANNAH FLEMING, Stuff.co.nz, May 20, 2013
New Plymouth, New Zealand -- New Plymouth's Sri Lankan community brought its culture alive on Saturday in celebration of religious and cultural festival Vesak.
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ABC, March 17, 2013
Canberra, Australia -- Construction of a new Chinese Buddhist temple is underway in Canberra's north.
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by LEESHA MCKENNY, SMH, December 31, 2012
Sydney, Australia -- A BUDDHA statue stood out among the charred wreckage of a temple mysteriously damaged by fire in Sydney's west at the weekend while its residents were overseas.
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BY LAUREN MCMAH, Fairfield Advance, Dec 18, 2012
Fairfield, Australia -- MEMBERS of the local Buddhist community have held a ceremony to mark four years since the planting of the Bonnyrigg Bodhi Tree.
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The Buddhist Channel, Nov 17, 2012
Wollongong, Australia -- A “piling and blessing ceremony” is to be held this Sunday 18 November at the site of the new Nan Tien University and Cultural Centre, with architecture by Woods Bagot.
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Stuff, Nov 8, 2012
Castor Bay, New Zealand -- A Buddhist organisation has bought the Castor Bay Presbyterian Church.
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The Age, Sept 26, 2012
Melbourne, Australia -- TRALEG Kyabgon Rinpoche drew thousands of Australians to the considered life of contemplation on the nature of mind. A pioneer of ''integrated Buddhism'', he exemplified the tradition that meditation is a path not only to calming the mind but to inner transformation of the self.
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BY TESSA HOFFMAN, Moreland Leader, Aug 8, 2012
Melbourne, Australia -- IT'S a 12-hour marathon with a difference - the participants don't move.
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BY CLAIRE THWAITES, Jul 3, 2012
Maroondah, Australia -- It's not every day you get offered the chance to celebrate the Dalai Lama's birthday - and certainly not an invitation you'd expect in the outer east of Melbourne.
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by Stoyan Zaimov, Christian Post, Jun. 22, 2012
Sydney, Australia -- A national census has revealed that while most Australians profess Christianity as a belief, the religion as a whole in the country has been on a steady decline, while the number adherents of Eastern faiths like Buddhism and Hinduism has grown.
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By Farida Master, NZ Herald, Apr 14, 2012
A day at the Fo Guang Shan Buddhist temple provides much-needed nourishment for the soul, writes Farida Master.
Auckland, New Zealand -- You may be forgiven for thinking you've travelled into another dynasty. Though the busy Botany Town Centre is only minutes away, the Fo Guang Shan Buddhist temple that stands tall at Flat Bush, has changed the skyline of the suburb.
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The Buddhist Channel, April 5, 2012
Perth, Australia -- The International Conference ”Buddhism & Australia 2013” will be held in 7 - 9th of August, 2013 in Perth, Western Australia.The conference acknowledges Buddhism in Austral-Asian region, its' history and knowledge, involving Buddhism and notable people in its' religious history.
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by Shireen Khalil, Inner West Courier, 25 Mar, 2012
Balmain, Australia -- CHODEN Rinpoche never left his room for 19 years. Rather than escaping his country during the Chinese invasion, Rinpoche, one of the highest lamas of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, decided to not leave his small, dark room in Lhasa until 1985.
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by Terra Sword, Northern Rivers Echo, 19th January 2012
Northern Rivers, Australia -- The Buddha Dharma Education Association has lodged a DA with Lismore Council for a $2.8 million expansion of the Bodhi Tree Forest Monastery in Tullera.
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by Barney Zwartz, The Age, October 31, 2011
Melbourne, Australia -- Buddhists from Melbourne and around the world take part in the stone-laying ceremony at Linh Son Temple in Reservoir.
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by Jessica Willoughby, Guardian Express, Jul 26, 2011
Le Tan Kiet acted from his heart. Le Tan Kiet acted from his heart
Northbridge, NSW (Australia) -- Western Australia’s multicultural community is mourning the loss of Le Tan Kiet, president of the Vietnamese Buddhist Association.
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Stuff, Jul 18, 2011
Christchurch, New Zealand -- The Tzu Chi Buddhist community gave more than $100,000 worth of food, blankets and torches to Linwood College's school community on Saturday.
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Sunshine Coast Daily, 17 June 2011
The Dalai Lama shared some light-hearted moments during his address to a crowd of 4000 at the Chenrezig Buddhist Institute, Eudlo. Eudlo, Australia -- A CHARMING, chuckling, sometimes cheeky Dalai Lama reminded a crowd of 4000 people that happiness was found on the inside rather than the outside when he visited the Chenrezig Buddhist instititute at Eudlo yesterday.
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by Geoff Shearer, The Courier-Mail, June 11, 2011
Melbourne, Australia -- MasterChef Australia contestants have been thinking about that all night after being told late yesterday they would be cooking for His Holiness today in Melbourne.
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ONE News, June 8, 2011
Christchurch, New Zealand -- The power of prayer was felt in Christchurch today as thousands of people turned out for a service with the Dalai Lama.
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by Michael Randall, Pakenham Cardinal Leader, 29 May, 2011
BERWICK, Australia -- BERWICK Buddhist Temple has come alive with colour as part of the traditional celebration of Wesak.
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by FRANCES STEWART, Canberra Times, 1 May, 2011
Canberra, Australia -- THE HEAD of Canberra's Tibetan Buddhist community has apologised to members of the society after allegations he had sexual relationships with several women from the group emerged late last year.
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by Nicole Precel, Dandenon-Leader, Apr 18, 2011
Melbourne, Australia -- TWO BUDDHIST groups are calling for the council to build a carpark near their Springvale South temples.
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by S. MUTHIAH, The Hindu, Apr 17, 2011
The fastest growing religion in Australia is Buddhism, and its roots have been traced back to Sri Lanka. But the question is will it sustain?
Bendigo, Australia -- The biggest stupa outside the countries with a significant Buddhist presence is being built in Bendigo, not far from Melbourne.
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ANI, Apr 10, 2011
Canberra, Australia -- Buddhist community leader Dr Sue Smith has complained of "Christian bias" in religious education in Victoria, Australia, saying that her group could have expanded to hundreds of schools if it had access to government funding.
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The Westender, Jan 14, 2010
Priestdale, Australia -- World Buddhist Leader donates $ 100,000 to Queensland Flood Appeal Venerable Master Hsing Yun, the founding Master of Fo Guang Shun, one of the largest Buddhist organisations in the world, shares a close empathy with the people of Queensland.
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by Melanie Darmody, Fairfield Advance, 28 Oct 2010
Fairfield, Australia -- A FAIRFIELD Heights residential site that was found to be operating illegally as a place of worship will now be allowed to be used as a Buddhist temple.
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by Sarah Garvis, Southern Times Messenger, Oct 5, 2010
Sellicks Hill, South Australia -- PLANS to build a $15 million Buddhist temple at Sellicks Hill have been backed by local tourism and community groups, who say it will attract residents from all over the world.
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by SHERADYN HOLDERHEAD, The Advertiser, September 29, 2010
Adelaide, Australia -- AN imposing 35m high pagoda and 18m bronze Buddha statue are one step closer to being built on an idyllic beach setting at Sellicks Hill.
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WHite Horse Leader, 21 Sep 2010
Box Hill, Australia -- BOX Hill was blessed recently as a Tibetan master trekked to the town hall.
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By PerthNow, AFP, September 1, 2010
Perth, Australia -- A MAN who beat a Buddhist monk to death in a suburban park was sentenced to five and a half years in jail, PerthNow reports.
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by Jewel Topsfield, The Age, August 30, 2010
Victoria, Australia -- A BUDDHIST temple next to Lakeside Secondary College in Reservoir detracted from the school's image, according to an Education Department report into the preferred location of the controversial school merger.
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The Buddhist Channel, August 25, 2010
Brisbane, Australia -- “Buddhist Insights for a New World Economy”, the 3rd Conference of the Buddhist Economics Research Platform will be held on January 18-19, 2011 in Brisbane, Australia.
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by NICOLE HASHAM, Illawarra Mercury, 17 Jun, 2010
Illawarra, Australia -- Spiritual wisdom will be fused with studies in accounting and commerce, when Australia's first Buddhist university opens its doors.
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News.com.au, April 07, 2010
Vista, Australia -- A CHRISTIAN woman is demanding a nursing home in South Australia remove decorative Buddhist statues, saying they are "stressful" for Christian residents including her 89-year-old father-in-law.
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by Greg Stolz, The Courier-Mail, March 23, 2010
Nerang, Australia -- BUDDHISTS are feeling a little less than serene after the Gold Coast City Council imposed tough conditions on a planned temple to pacify locals.
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AP, Feb 26, 2010
MELBOURNE, Australia -- Mali the baby elephant played with a red rubber ball as three Buddhist monks splashed her face with water Thursday in blessing ceremony for the Melbourne Zoo's newest star.
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ABC News, Feb 17, 2010
Police investigate bashings and robbery
Adelaide, Australia -- Two monks have been assaulted at a Buddhist monastery on Adelaide's northern fringe.
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by MEAGAN ROOTH, The Warrnambool Standard, Feb 11, 2010
Warrnambool, Australia -- THE Warrnambool Buddhist community will welcome a revered monk this weekend for a two-day seminar on tranquility.
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AAP, January 29, 2010
Perth, Australia -- A 37-year-old Perth man has been remanded in custody over the bashing murder of a Buddhist monk who died two weeks after he was found bloody and unconscious.
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PerthNow, January 26, 2010
Perth, Australia -- A 48-YEAR-OLD Buddhist monk who was savagely attacked in a public car park in Perth's south has died.
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Voxy News Engine, 18 January, 2010
Auckland, New Zealand -- What happens when two religions and two world views collide?
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Hornsby Advocate, 16 Dec, 2009
Hornsby, Australia -- MEMBERS of a local Buddhist group have welcomed a visit by their spiritual director Choje Ayang Rinpoche.
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TVNZ, Dec 5, 2009
Auckland, New Zealand -- Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has addressed more than 1000 people at Auckland's Vector Arena on the subject of A Peaceful Mind.
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by STEPHANIE GARDINER, AAP, November 30, 2009
Sydney, Australia -- The Dalai Lama has called on young people to work to make the world a better place. All individuals can make a change, he says.
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By JO TUAPAWA, Howick and Botany Times, 18 November 2009
Auckland, New Zealand -- GENEROSITY continues for those who suffered in the recent tsunami in Samoa.
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by TRACEY FINDLAY, Hornsby Advocate, Nov 4, 2009
Waitara, Australia -- MEMBERS of a Buddhist group are inviting the community to take a look at their newly-renovated premises.
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By John Lewis, University of Otago, Aug 29 2009
Dunedin, New Zealand -- To give the teachings of the Buddha is the most precious gift a Buddhist can offer.
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By NICHOLAS BOYACK, Hutt News, Aug 11, 2009
Wainuiomata, New Zealand -- Four monks living in a house in Wainuiomata have been forced to apply for resource consent on what appears to be an obscure technicality.
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by NISSARA HORAYANGURA, The Bangkok Post, July 28, 2009
A forest monastery for Buddhist nuns in Perth, Australia, offers a sanctuary for women seeking monastic life
Perth, Australia -- Two little girls, sisters aged around four and six, perch quietly on the special kiddie-sized meditation cushions provided for visitors. Leaning forward, they listen intently as Ajahn Sister Vayama, the abbot of the Dhammasara Nuns Monastery in Perth, Australia, tells them the tale of how the place came to be.
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By Kath Gannaway, Star News Group, June 30, 2009
His Holiness The 41st Sakya Trizin and the monks invokes blessing on the Australian Wildlife Health Centre and its staff and wildlife that perished in the bushfires
Healesville, Australia -- FOR more than 20 minutes last week the hustle and bustle of Healesville Sanctuary stopped as prayers were offered for the millions of animals that perished in the February bushfires.
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Independent Weekly, June 25, 2009
Adelaide, Australia -- Proponents of a $15 million Buddhist temple in Adelaide's south have been ordered to detail the spiritual rationale of the project.
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by Tiffany Fox, TheWest.com.au, 29th May 2009
Perth, Australia -- The golden statue gracing a new Tibetan Buddhist temple in the Swan Valley took Indian craftsmen more than four years to complete and its unveiling next week will mark the realisation of a 30-year dream.
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by HOWARD JONES, The Border Mail, May 21, 2009
Albury, Australia -- TIBETAN monk Geshe Sonam Thargye smiled in Albury yesterday as he recalled fleeing his country across the Himalayas, just as his leader, the Dalai Lama, had done years before.
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By KIRSTY JOHNSTON, Taranaki Daily News, May 10, 2009
New Plymouth, New Zealand -- An influx of young Sri Lankan families has re-kindled the community's Buddhist culture in New Plymouth.
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Westender, May 10, 2009
Australia's Buddhist community taking part in colourful celebration for United Nations Day of Vesak
Sydney, Australia -- Australia’s Buddhist temples come alive with colour this week as celebrations are under way for the United Nations Day of Vesak, with the best wishes of the Parliamentary Secretary for Multicultural Affairs and Settlement Services, Laurie Ferguson.
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by Nick Galvin, Sydney Morning Herald, May 3, 2009
Sydney, Australia -- It's not until about halfway through our interview that Steve Killelea's demeanour of calm, self-effacement slips - just a little - and he allows himself to show what might be pride.
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ABC News, Apr 30, 2009
Yarrowyck. Australia -- The Uralla Shire Council has rejected plans for a Buddhist retreat at Yarrowyck.
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by Koren Helbig, Albert & Logan News, May 1, 2009
Brisbane, Australia -- AN internationally renowned three-day festival with strong links to Logan begins at South Bank today.
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By Kelly Yates, Star News, April 16, 2009
Narre Warren North, Australia -- BUDDHISM followers are celebrating the completion of the new main shrine at the Yun Yang Temple in Narre Warren North.
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Weekly Times Now, April 9, 2009
Bendigo, Australia -- ADRIAN Feldman was a successful Melbourne GP living with his girlfriend when he decided to become a celibate Tibetan Buddhist monk. That was back in the '70s.
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Byron News, March 19, 2009
Byron Bay, Australia -- HONU Dawson is a Buddhist nun, but admits she’s not very good at sitting on a cushion and meditating.
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by PAUL BIBBY, Manning River Times, March 12, 2009
New South Wales, Australia -- BUDDHISM and law enforcement are unusual bedfellows. Adhering to the principles of non-violence, calmness and love for all human beings is not easy when your day job involves investigating and locking up potentially violent criminals.
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Thesenior.com.au, March 13, 2009
Sydney, Australia -- Doing something useful for other people – that’s the ultimate anti-depressant. If that philosophy is true, then Paget Sayers would have to be one of the happiest people in Australia.
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by STAN GORTON, Narooma News, Feb 25, 2009
Tilba, Australia -- HUNDREDS of visitors from around Australia and the world are seeking spiritual enlightenment at the Namgyalgar Buddhist community on the slopes of Gulaga Mountain.
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GAAPWeb, February 13, 2009
Bedourie, Australia -- A team of Buddhist monks have caused a commotion in Australia by launching a dentist practise, according to reports.
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BY SHERY DEMIAN, Liverpool Champion, Jan 21, 2009
Bonnyrigg, Australia -- ABOUT 2000 worshippers and community members will be at the Australian Chinese Buddhist Society Temple in Bonnyrigg at midnight on Monday.
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By JO TUAPAWA, Howick and Botany Times, Jan 21, 2009
East Tamaki, New Zealand -- THREE, two, one, Happy New Year once again - the Chinese new year is fast becoming a highlight on the calendar for all Kiwis, with magical firework displays, music and a riot of colour.
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by Miki Perkins, The Age, January 7, 2009
Melbourne, Australia -- ON THE dry plains north of Melbourne Airport sit the whitewashed buildings of the Tibetan Buddhist Society.
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ABC News, Dec 19, 2008
Shoalhaven, Australia -- Shoalhaven council is continuing negotiations over a proposed Buddhist temple and tourism complex in South Nowra, despite the developers missing the deadline for settlement.
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ABC, Dec 18, 2008
Adelaide, Australia -- The South Australian Government says major project status has been given to a Buddhist temple project at Sellicks Hill in Adelaide because of its unusual character.
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Australian AP News, December 14, 2008
Sydney, Australia -- VICTORIAN state primary school students will soon be able to take religious education classes which teach there is no evidence God exists.
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By Lincoln Tan, New Zealand Herald, Dec 15, 2008
Auckland, New Zealand -- Prime Minister John Key has said he will meet the Dalai Lama when he comes to New Zealand next year - one week after China retaliated against the French president for doing the same.
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The Buddhist Channel, Dec 5, 2008
Hobart, Tasmania (Australia) -- Minister for Corrections and Consumer Protection and Minister for Workplace Relations, Lisa Singh, today welcomed delegates to Hobart for the 5th World Buddhist Sangha Youth General Conference.
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NZ Buddhist Foundation, December 4, 2008
Global Conference On Buddhism Attracts Speakers and Delegates from around the world to Auckland
Auckland, New Zealand -- Revelation & Realisation; Death, Dying & Rebirth; Karma vs Fate; Ending War, Making Peace; Buddhism and Technology - these are some of the topics on offer at The 6th Global Conference on Buddhism, being held in Auckland this weekend.
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by Dinah Arndt, The Age, November 21, 2008
Maribyrnong, Australia -- THE remarkable transformation of a vacant Maribyrnong River site into a Buddhist temple complex has begun, with a 16-metre statue of the Heavenly Queen.
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by Mandy Nolan, Byron Shire Echo, September 30, 2008
Byron Bay, Australia -- Malcolm Huxter is a clinical psychologist with North Coast Area Health Service. He also works part time in private practice. He is a keynote speaker at this year’s Mental Health Week’s Acceptance Day at Peace Pole Park at Main Beach in Byron Bay on Wednesday October 8.
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by Ian Green, (Source: Chorten, August 2008), The Buddhist Channel, Sept 18, 2008
Melbourne, Australia -- Melbourne will be blessed by a tour of one of the world’s largest collections of sacred Buddhist relics. Several thousands Buddhists are expected to view and venerate these relics which are said to provide a blessing to each city they visit.
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The Gisborne Herald, September 15, 2008
Gisborne, New Zealand -- The official opening of the Palpung Kagyu Samten Choeling Tibetan Buddhist Institute was held at the weekend, the culmination of what members of the Gisborne Buddhist community have been working towards for years.
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by CATHERINE VAN BERGEN, The Age, September 10, 2008
Bendigo, Australia -- BUDDHIST monks at a centre near Bendigo are up against a problem beyond even divine intervention - possums.
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by Julie McNamara, Geelong Advertiser, August 30, 2008
Geelong, Australia -- LINDA Diggins' Buddhist faith has a profound impact on her life.
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by Louise Schwartzkoff, Sydney Morning Herald, August 28, 2008
Sydney, Australia -- At the Art Gallery of New South Wales a 150-kilogram sixth-century limestone Buddha dangles from a forklift, almost two metres above the ground. Its feet supported by five riggers, the statue descends slowly into a plinth.
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BY DONNA KELLY, The Advocate, Aug 26, 2008
Daylesford, Australia -- THE Daylesford Dharma School, offering a Buddhist approach to education, will open its doors next year for children from prep to grade three.
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IANS, Aug 18, 2008
Sydney, Australia -- A Buddhist society’s plans to build a temple in south-western Sydney is facing an outcry from residents, coming as it does close on the heels of the recent furore over a proposed Islamic school in suburban Sydney.
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By EMMA O'NEILL, Northern Star, August 13, 2008
Kyogle, Australia -- You can still be a Buddhist and pay the bills.
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By Shaun Inguanzo, Star News Group, August 7, 2008
Springvale, Australia -- SPRINGVALE’S Buddhist community celebrated the Hungry Ghost Festival this week.
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By Christine McCafferty, Gisborne Herald, August 1, 2008
Gisborne, New Zealand -- Eight years of fundraising by the Gisborne Buddhist community has brought to fruition their goal to open a dedicated space for practitioners of the ancient teachings.
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by Georgie Pilcher, Herald Sun, July 7, 2008
Belgrave, Australia -- The Dalai Lama says the purpose of life is to be happy and yesterday Buddhist monks in Belgrave celebrated the wise man's words.
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By Amy Coopes, Herald Sun, June 26, 2008
Sydney, Australia -- AN Argentinian-born Buddhist monk who allegedly traded his tobacco fortune for a life of prayer, has been placed on a good behaviour bond for selling cannabis from his inner-Sydney laundrette.
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Phayul, June 16, 2008
Sydney, Australia -- Tibetan leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama on Sunday wrapped up a five-day Australia tour, which was highlighted by his meeting with Australian acting Prime Minister and Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Senator Chris Evans.
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AAP, June 15, 2008
Sydney, Australia -- The Dalai Lama captivated thousands in Sydney with his preachings on vanity, birth control and the imperative of truth and conviction as necessary means to stem global violence.
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By Byron Kaye, The Daily Telegraph, June 12, 2008
Sydney, Australia -- A BUDDHIST monk and self-confessed drug dealer has been charged with lying to police to get his passport back.
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by Emily Smith, LiveNews, June 12, 2008
Sydney, Australia -- A Buddhist monk has pleaded guilty to drugs charges in a Sydney court.
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by Hamish McDonald and Paul Bibby. Sydney Morning Herald, June 12, 2008
Sydney, Australia -- AFTER nearly half a century as a "homeless person", as he describes himself, the Dalai Lama was yesterday still hopeful of a breakthrough in negotiations with China that might let him return to Tibet.
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AAP, June 11, 2008
Sydney, Australia -- The Dalai Lama arrived in Australia today to a warm welcome from supporters but was branded a "liar" and a "hypocrite" by some 50 protesting Buddhist monks and nuns.
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Star News Group, June 10, 2008
Braybrook, Australia -- BRAYBROOK’S Venerable Thich Phuoc Tan has been recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours with a Medal of the Order of Australia.
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Digital Journal, June 6, 2008
Auckland, New Zealand -- New Zealand’s Tibetan exiles are doing something new against Chinese rule. Instead of protesting, the Tibetan exiles are using prayer.
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Star News Group, May 29, 2008
Berwick, Victoria (Australia) -- BERWICK’S Buddhist Temple of Victoria celebrated the Buddhist birthday by creating a lantern made of more than 300 bundles of wool and 1500 drawing pins.
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By D.C. Ranatunga, Sunday Times (Sri Lanka), April 20, 2008
Impressions on visiting a forest monastery in Sydney
Sydney, Australia -- A cartwheel symbolising the ‘dhamma cakra’ greeted us at the entrance to Santi Forest Monastery located in a 150-acre eucalyptus forest in the rugged landscape of Australia’s Southern Highlands about halfway between Sydney and Canberra.
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By Colleen May and Kay Bel, Epoch Times, Apr 11, 2008
CANBERRA, Australia -- Thich Quang Ba, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk from the Vanltanh Temple in Canberra, was a guest at the opening night of the Chinese Spectacular and was impressed by the skill of the artists as well as the important moral messages of the performance.
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by Tim Dick, the Sydney Morning Herald, April 12, 2008
A mischievous monk released 20 people into the mainstream this week
Kyogle, Australia -- FOR three years, three months and three days, they meditated in a wooden temple perched on a lush hilltop in northern NSW. Each day, they rose at 4am to avoid worldly distractions by chanting mantras.
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By AMANDA KING, Howick and Pakuranga Times, April 7, 2008
Auckland, New Zealand -- BUDDHA’S birthday celebrations at the Fo Guang Shan Buddhist temple in Botany on Sunday will be a day for all cultures and religions to come together, the organisers say.
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By Sarah Matheson, Epoch Times, Mar 28, 2008
Auckland, New Zealand -- A renowned Burmese Buddhist leader says the situation in Burma has worsened since September when the military gunned monks down in the streets.
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By ABI THOMAS, Northern Advocate, March 25, 2008
Whangarei, New Zealand -- PROTESTING or even holding up signs is not in the normal mindset of a Buddhist monk. But it is when people in their homeland are being killed.
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By Lincoln Tan, New Zealand Herald, March 24, 2008
Auckland, New Zealand -- Members of New Zealand's Burmese community are hoping one of their revered religious leaders, Venerable Abbot U Pannya Vamsa, can help them make sense of the killings in Tibet during his visit to Auckland this week.
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by Leah Odgers, Star News Group, Feb 26, 2008
Melbourne, Australia -- IT MAY seem odd to celebrate the New Year in March but for the Tibetan Buddhist Society it’s the most significant date of the year.
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By SASKIA KONYNENBURG, Northern Advocate, Feb 25, 2008
Whangarei, New Zealand -- A BUDDHIST Stupa which aims to emit special energy bringing peace and harmony to the surrounding community was opened on top of a hill overlooking Whangarei yesterday.
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By ALEX ARNOLD, Illawara Mercury, February 23, 2008
Wollongong, Australia -- Wollongong people are becoming less religious, according to the 2006 Census, but Buddhism is defying the trend.
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By Tania Martin, Star News Group, Feb 19, 2008
Anita and Frank Carter of the Upwey Buddhist Discussion Centre share their knowledge of Buddhism teachings with hills residents.
Upwey, Australia -- HILLS people wanting to step into a life of Buddhism now have the opportunity to learn all about the religion. Upwey’s Buddhist Discussion Centre will launch its introduction to Buddhism course this week.
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By Mark Schliebs, The Age, February 15, 2008
KEVIN Rudd didn't only win over Australians with his apology to Aboriginal people: he earned the praise of one of the world's most respected spiritual leaders - the Dalai Lama.
Canberra, Australia -- The Dalai Lama was so tickled-pink with the new prime minister’s commitment to reconciliation, Mr Rudd’s office received a letter outlining the Buddhist leader’s approval.
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Perth Now, February 14, 2008
Buddhist mandala at TAFE
Perth, Australia -- THEY say that just to gaze upon a sacred mandala enhances enlightenment. Start the year with some spiritual growth.
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by Emily Dunn, The Courier-Mail, February 12, 2008
Brisbane, Australia -- AS far as sandcastles go it probably won't impress too many youngsters handy with a bucket and spade.
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By Joel Christie, The Daily Telegraph, February 1, 2008
Sydney, Australia -- HERITAGE listed Buddhist temple was torched in a suspected arson attack early yesterday, a week before Chinese New Year.
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Magnetic Times, January 25th 2008
Magnetic Island, Australia -- A nun ordained in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, Thubten Yeshe, a Buddhist educator who leads Buddhist retreats in Australia and overseas, is to give a talk about “Mindfulness in Daily Life” on Sunday February 3 at the Magnetic Buddha Dharma.
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By Samantha Williams, The Daily Telegraph, January 18, 2008
Sydney, Australia -- THE typical Australian living on the coast a decade ago was an Anglican. But the population boom has brought new religions. In his latest research on religion, demographer Bernard Salt from KPMG said Buddhism was one of the fastest growth faiths on the NSW coast, particularly in the south, behind Catholicism and Pentecostalism.
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by Leah Hallett, Gold Coast, Dec 10, 2007
Brisbane, Australia -- BUDDHIST monks seeking nirvana in the Gold Coast Hinterland have been accused of disturbing the peace of their neighbours.
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By KATELYN JOHN, AAP, November 22, 2007
Buddhism is pretty hip right now
Wollongong, Australia -- After Kabbalah, it seems to have more celebrity endorsement than any other religion, with actors Richard Gere, Goldie Hawn, Orlando Bloom, Uma Thurman, and even Star Wars director George Lucas all professing their belief in the Enlightened One.
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by Stuart Carless, The Age, November 14, 2007
Mollymook, Australia -- Local Buddhists are celebrating the official opening of the region's first Buddhist centre.
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by Bridie Smith, The Age, October 27, 2007
Sydney, Australia -- NEXT Friday will be a big day for Michael Cassapidis. And a dash of Buddhist calm could prove the clincher, as the English-born monk spends this weekend preparing for his first VCE exam.
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by ANGUS HOHENBOKEN, The Mercury, October 17, 2007
Hobart, Tasmania (Australia) -- A revered 93-year-old Chinese buddhist monk was welcomed with a holy lion dance before stepping into a Cadillac limousine at Hobart Airport yesterday.
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Oct 9, 2007
New South Wales, Australia -- The central western New South Wales region's first live-in Tibetan Buddhist meditation retreat is being developed in between Cumnock, Molong and Manildra.
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By REBECCA GARDINER, Howick and Pakuranga Times, September 20, 2007
Botany, New Zealand -- SEVEN years of labour will come to fruition with the grand opening of Botany’s Fo Guang Shan Temple next month – and Buddhist leaders hope it will be used by people of other religions as well.
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by Les Kennedy , Sydney Morning Herald, September 15, 2007
He's been hailed as a millionaire, doctor and ambassador's son who became a monk, but now he is accused of peddling drugs and public mischief. Les Kennedy reports.
Sydney, Australia -- To the monks of Sydney's Theravadan Laotian order at the Meditation Centre, Chinatown, he is known with respect as Ajahn Yanatharo - the term Ajahn meaning professor.
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by Gabriella Coslovich, Sydney Morning Herald, September 15, 2007
For Tibetan Buddhism's foremost woman lama, living well requires patience, discipline and time to shop, writes Gabriella Coslovich.
Sydney, Australia -- AROUND seven on a chilly early spring Sunday evening, people trickle into the Sakya Buddhist centre in Sydney's west. They leave their shoes on wooden shelves at the side entrance of the double-storey, cream brick, suburban mansion.
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By Paul Pickering, Star News Group, September 11, 2007
Upwey, Victoria (Australia) -- ALMOST two decades after the foundation stone was laid for a new meditation hall at the Buddhist Discussion Centre in Upwey, the building now stands as a monument to the vision of its founder - the late John Hughes - and the patience and ingenuity of the community he nurtured.
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by Karen Pakula, Sydney Morning Herald, September 7, 2007
Karen Pakula finds the road to enlightenment leads to outer Wollongong
Wollongong, Australia -- The nun appears out of the shadows and stands beside an island of steaming bains-maries. It is time for the buffet dharma: "Go back as often as you wish but eat everything on your plate," she says, rather sternly.
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by Corrie Perkin and Siobhain Ryan, The Australian, August 29, 2007
Sydney, Australia -- Ros Packer, the philanthropist and widow of millionaire businessman Kerry Packer yesterday declared her admiration for the Kushan dynasty second century Seated Buddha, her new $1 million-plus gift to the National Gallery of Australia's Asian art collection.
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ABC, August 24, 2007
Bendigo, Australia -- Work has started on carving an 18-tonne boulder of jade into a statue of Buddha for a central Victorian temple.
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Radio Asutralia, Aug 24, 2007
Shoalhaven, New South Wales (Australia) -- The mayor of Shoalhaven on the New South Wales south coast of eastern Australia, Greg Watson, says he believes the area has lost out on establishing the world's first Shaolin temple outside China.
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by Nick Higginbottom, Melbourne Herald Sun, August 20, 2007
Melbourne, Australia -- SERENITY prevailed yesterday when Buddhist monks, a politician and hungry ghosts opened a new temple at the Springvale Botanical Cemetery.
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By Vanessa Walker, New Zealand Herald, July 21, 2007
Auckland, New Zealand -- Thousands of New Zealanders from all walks of life have one thing in common: they are followers of Buddhism. Twenty-four years ago, Charlotte Wrightson used to thrash around angrily in an Auckland punk band called The Plague, making a commotion about the evils of private property, capitalism and conformity.
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By Walter Jayawardhana, Lankaweb, June 22, 2007
Australia is having per capita buddhists than any other western nation and it is the fastest growing religion in the country
Sydney, Australia -- The Dalai lama’s recently concluded visit to Australia that also included a meeting with Australian Prime minister John Howard has once again drawn the attention not only to the fact that Buddhism is the fastest growing religion in Australia but also that there are more Buddhists in the continent per capita than anywhere else in the Western world.
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Huliq, June 19, 2007
Sydney, Australia -- The Dalai Lama has just completed a tour of Australia, boosting what is the country's fastest-growing religion. Australia has more Buddhists per capita than anywhere else in the Western world. From Sydney, Phil Mercer reports on how this religion has moved beyond Asian immigrant communities and into the mainstream.
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by Danielle Teutsch, Sydney Morning Herald, June 17, 2007
Sydney, Australia -- ANYONE hoping the Dalai Lama would divulge the meaning of life at his public talk in Sydney yesterday would have been disappointed.
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Newswire.co.nz, June 17, 2007
Auckland, New Zealand -- The exiled Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama is expected to address thousands of people in a lecture in Auckland today, but it seems unlikely that his visit to this country will see a formal invitation to see the Prime Minister.
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by IAN STEWARD, The Press, June 16, 2007
Marshland, New Zealand -- As the Dalai Lama jetted in to town, talking (or not) to the Prime Minister, addressing stadiums of thousands, five Buddhist monks in Marshland rejoiced at the latest offering from their local devotees – electric blankets.
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ABC News Online, June 14, 2007
Sydney, Australia -- Hundreds of people from Sydney's Tibetan community have turned out to welcome the 14th Dalai Lama at Sydney Airport.
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By Alyssa Braithwaite, AAP, June 14, 2007
Sydney, Australia -- GROWING numbers of young people are turning to spirituality as they realise they cannot inject, drink or purchase peace of mind, the Dalai Lama says.
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by Danny Lannen, Geelong Advertiser, June 13, 2007
Geelong, Australia -- TIBETAN spiritual leader the Dalai Lama commended Geelong's beautiful people as he left the city.
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AP, June 13, 2007
BEERWAH, Australia -- One of the world's most famous animal lovers visited the former stomping ground of another on Wednesday when the Dalai Lama toured the family zoo of late "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin.
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Tha Age, June 11, 2007
Canberra, Australia -- The Dalai Lama heads to Canberra on Tuesday, still none the wiser about whether his day will include a meeting with Prime Minister John Howard.
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by Rowan Callick, The Australian, June 9, 2007
Perth, Australia -- THE Dalai Lama was born Lhamo Dhondrub on July 6, 1935, in Taktser village in northeast Tibet, to a farming family.
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AAP, June 07, 2007
Bendigo, Australia -- THE Dalai Lama visited Bendigo today to bless the biggest Buddhist stupa in the Western world, which is under construction and due to be completed by 2010.
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The West, June 5, 2007
Perth, Australia -- Hundreds of well wishers turned out to greet the Dalai Lama when he arrived in Perth today for the first leg of his 2007 speaking tour.
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by Mike Bruce, Herald-Sun, June 6, 2007
Perth, Australia -- BUDDHIST faithful would be repaid the $300,000 owed them by the Dalai Lama's Australian tour, its organiser has said.
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The Age, June 4, 2007
Perth, Australia -- The Dalai Lama will fly into Perth on Tuesday at the start of an eight-city Australian tour.
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By Julie-Anne Davies, Nine MSN, June 1, 2007
The Dalai Lama's visit will give further impetus to what is already Australia's fastest-growing religion. Buddhism has shaken off its hippie new-age tag and is gaining converts in the nation's boardrooms.
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By Phurbu Thinley, Phayul, May 23, 2007
Auckland, New Zealand -- According to a press release that appeared on Scoop (New Zealand media), the Dalai Lama Visit Trust New Zealand has announced that Sir Edmund Hillary has accepted an invitation from the trust to meet His Holiness the Dalai Lama during his visit to New Zealand next month.
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by Linda Morris, Sydney Mornign Herald, May 21, 2007
Sydney, Australia -- THE Federal Government may or may not be rolling out the welcome mat for the Dalai Lama - and Tibet's exiled spiritual leader is also struggling to enlighten Sydney's business leaders.
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Star News Group, April 18, 2007
Dandenong, Australia -- GREATER Dandenong’s Thai, Cambodian, Laos, Burmese and Sri Lankan communities celebrated the Songkran, the Buddhist new year this week.
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By IAN STEWARD, Stuff, February 28, 2007
Christchurch, New Zealand -- Serenity and enlightenment await Buddhist devotees with the opening of their new award-nominated Christchurch centre.
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by RACHEL PINDER, Hawkes Bay Today, Jan 13, 2007
Hawke's Bay, New Zealand -- The house on Tamatea's Norfolk Street looks like any other, but it's not. Six months ago, Hawke's Bay people from the Thai and Laos communities decided to club together and buy a house to convert into a temple, and so the Samma Patipadaram Monastery was born.
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Huliq, University of Sydney, Jan 2, 2006
Sydney, Australia -- Out of the turmoil of Afghanistan, hundreds of precious Buddhist manuscripts have come to the west.
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Bendigo Your Guide, November 20, 2006
Bendigo, Australia -- More than 1000 people took the opportunity to explore the Atisha Centre yesterday and learn more about the Buddhist way of life.
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Sakya.com.au, November 17, 2006
Sydney, Australia -- After the eventful opening of Sakya International Buddhist Academy (SIBA - Tsarchen Choeling) by His Eminence Chogye Trichen Rinpoche on 9 September 2006, the inaugural three month retreat program has begun in great earnest. Only two months old, SIBA has already become an important Tibetan Buddhist learning and practice centre.
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by Myles Wearring, SSONET.com.au, Nov 10, 2006
Stresses of modern life can be eased with a little Buddhist know-how
Sydney, Australia -- Buddhist leader the Seventh Dzogchen Rinpoche is currently in Sydney giving talks on coping with stress and healing the mind.
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Bendigo News, October 20, 2006
Bendigo, Australia -- The City of Greater Bendigo will support a visit to Bendigo by his Holiness the Dalai Lama in June next year. Mayor of the City, Cr David Jones is anticipating the visit will provide opportunities for Bendigo, including an event that is set to attract international attention.
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By Nigel Benson, OTAGO DAILY TIMES, October 16, 2006
Dunedin, New Zealand -- A spiritual art work that was weeks in the making was destroyed in a few seconds in the Dunedin Public Art Gallery yesterday. More than 200 people turned up for the deconstruction ceremony of the Chenrezig sand mandala.
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by Ian Green, Chorten, September 2006
Construction of great Stupa gets underway in preparation for visit by His Holiness Dalai Lama
Bendigo, Victoria (Australia) -- The next stage in the construction of the Great Stupa of Universal Compassion, near Bendigo, Victoria, Australia has commenced. This stage will see the erection of large galvanised pillars and beams that will rise two stories high. Supporting the steel will be concrete sheer walls that will also be erected in this building phase.
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The Buddhist Channel, Aug 31, 2006
Perth, Australia -- Well known Dharma teacher Ajahn Brahmavamso in a condolence message from Australia has advised devotees in Malaysia that now is not the time to grief over the loss of their much beloved Chief Venerable Dr K Sri Dhammananda, who passed away today.
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The Australian, August 28, 2006
Sydney, Australia -- The Dalai Lama will visit Australia in June next year, giving free public lectures on religious tolerance.
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Australia Buddhist Corporation, August 3, 2006
Shoalhaven, Australia -- The Venerable Abbot Shi Yong Xin has inspected land at Comberton Grange where he hopes to build a Shaolin Temple, Tourism and Residential Development.
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Stuff.co.nz, June 29, 2006
Auckland, New Zealand -- Tolerance has been urged in a dispute between New Zealand trustees of a Buddhist organisation and its foreign-based spiritual director.
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Geelong Info, June 24, 2006
Geelong, Australia -- THE Dalai Lama will visit Geelong next year. Buddhism's global figurehead will return to the bay city on June 11, 2007, as part of a tour of Australia and New Zealand.
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Australian Broadcasting Corp, June 19, 2006
Shoalhaven, Australia -- Shoalhaven Mayor Greg Watson has returned from China with a deal for a Shoalin temple on the south coast. The Zen Buddhist temple has signed a contract to buy 1,200 hectares of land at Comberton Grange south of Nowra.
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Phayul, June 13, 2006
Perth, Australia -- Perth is the host city of the 4th Global Conference on Buddhism organised by The Buddhist Soceity of Western Australia under the guidance of Venerable Achan Brahm. Confronting Controversies and modern world's problem with fundamentalism, feminism and euthanasia were some of the topics discussed at this historical conference ever to be held in Australia.
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by Linda Morris, Sydney Morning Herald, June 13, 2006
Sydney, Australia -- THERE were purebreds and mongrels, shaggy dogs and short-haired cats, divas and ruffians. And, to the amazement of their owners, barely a bark or paw-swipe in protest as the saffron-robed Tibetan Buddhist master came to help family pets on the path to enlightenment.
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by Oon Yeoh, The Buddhist Channel, June 10, 2006
Perth, Australia -- When you are dealing with fundamentalists (who are sometimes not only unreasonable but also violent and belligerent) what do you do?
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By SARAH MACDONALD, Howick and Pakuranga Times, June 1, 2006
WINTER babies will be warm after a generous woolly donation from an East Tamaki charity.
Auckland, New Zealand -- The Buddhist Compassion Relief Tzu Chi Foundation has gifted 200 baby blankets and singlets to Middlemore Hospital’s neonatal unit and post-natal wards.
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By Shaun Inguanzo, Dandenong Star, June 1, 2006
Buddhist lama Khentrul Rinpoche will visit Greater Dandenong and draw on several different Buddhist streams to teach others how to lead a happy life.
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Australian Broadcasting Corp, May 19, 2006
Kimberley, Australia -- A group of Buddhist monks are finding solace in a far north Western Australian Indigenous community famous for its rock art.
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By Sarah Price, Sydney Morning Herald, May 7, 2006
Sydney, Australia -- BUDDHISM is growing as a religion of choice for Australians seeking an antidote to a greedy, violent and stressed out world.
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Newswire (New Zealand), May 10, 2006
Auckland, New Zealand -- Plans to build a ten-storey Buddhist tower, a pagoda, in south Auckland has angered some residents. The Buddhist temple in Flat Bush has applied for resource consent to build the tower, where the ashes of cremated followers will be stored.
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by Amanda Whibley, EurekAlert, April 20, 2006
Sydney, Australia -- Madonna made those little red Kabbalah bracelets cool for five minutes, and Tom Cruise talked up Scientology, but Buddhism firmly remains the religion du jour for Westerners looking for respite from a greedy, violent and stressed out world, according to a University of Western Sydney expert.
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By Pip Cummings, Sydney Morning Herald, April 13, 2006
With Easter, Passover and Buddha's birthday upon us, it's time to get holy.
Sydney, Australia -- When Kerry Williams purchased a metre-high Virgin Mary statue at auction, she was faced with a transport problem. So she strapped the statue in to the front seat of her sports car, roof down, and took her for a drive.
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ABC News Online, April 7, 2006
Bendigo, Australia -- Financial support is being sought from around the world for a planned $15 million Buddhist shrine near Bendigo. It will be the same size and design as the Great Stupa in Tibet.
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Australian Broadcasting Corp, March 24, 2006
Bendigo, Victoria (Australia) -- Erection of a steel framework for a big religious and tourist attraction near Bendigo is expected to start soon after the council's decision to guarantee a loan for the project.
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Australian Broadcast Corporation, March 3, 2006
Illawarra, NSW (Australia) -- Shoalhaven City Council is to officially offer the Shoalin Buddhist Order land at Comberton Grange near Falls Creek at an undisclosed price.
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Stuff, February 25, 2006
Chief executives are finding their 'Buddha nature' in the practice and disciplines of Tibetan meditation. Julie Macken reports.
Sydney, Australia -- When Gordon Cairns began as CEO of Lion Nathan, he says he was "a horrible boss – driven by power, task-oriented and only concerned with getting the job done, whatever the cost".
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By Michael Sinclair, Star News Group, February 8, 2006
Yuroke, Australia -- YUROKE will house thousands of Buddhists from across the country in a celebration for world peace later this month.
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ABC News Online, Feb 2, 2006
Sydney, Australia -- Shoalhaven Mayor Greg Watson says recent meetings with NSW Government department heads in Sydney have boosted support for the proposed Shaolin Buddhist temple.
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By Tony Stickley, New Zealand Herald, Jan 17, 2006
Auckland, New Zealand -- Hundreds of people from a Buddhist temple in Auckland applied en masse for refugee status, a court was told today. John Boggs, an intelligence analyst with the New Zealand Immigration Service, said claims from Thais escalated in 1998/99.
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by Angela Haberm, Hawkesbury Your Guide, November 24, 2005
Kurrajong, Australia -- It might have taken five years to find a suitable location, but the decision to set up in the Hawkesbury was one a Buddhist group needed to meditate on only briefly.
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ABC, November 18, 2005
Illawara, NSW (Australia) -- Two Shoalhaven councillors have raised concerns about a draft agreement between Shoalhaven Council and a Chinese Buddhist order.
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By GREG ELLIS, Illawarra Mercury, September 16, 2005
Wollongong, Australia -- THE Nan Tien Temple has lodged a development application for a large tertiary educational and cultural facility at Unanderra.
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Statement by The Head of the Congregation, Most Venerable Thich Nhu Hue, representing the Unified Vietnamese Buddhist Congregation of Australia ? New Zealand, Published on The Buddhist Channel, Sept 5, 2005
Sydney, Australia -- We all have been watching the tragedy unfurl for the people of the Southern States of America, particularly those in Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi. The catastrophic extent of damage inflicted by Hurricane Katrina and the enormous task of helping and evacuating tens of thousands of refugees is unprecedented, especially for the people of New Orleans.
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First-person, Thich Nu Phuoc Hoan, as told to Andrew Lam,Pacific News Service, Aug 22, 2005
Editor's Note: Places of worship are growing in Australia at a phenomenal rate. In Sydney alone, there are more than 150 Buddhist temples. But while large mosques and temples have the funding to deal with bureaucracy, many home-converted temples run into problems.
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Times Newspapers (New Zealand), July 20, 2005
Auckland, New Zealand -- A GIANT jade Buddha has taken up residency at the Fo Guang Shan Buddhist Temple in East Tamaki. The eight tonne Buddha has been installed in the temple?s main shrine where it has a benevolent presence for worshippers.
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By VANESSA BURROW, The Standard, July 6, 2005
Warrnambool, Australia -- TIBETAN monks demonstrated their extraordinary patience yesterday as they began creating an intricate artwork called a mandala at Warrnambool's Gateway Plaza.
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Magnetic Times, July 5 2005
Magnetic Island, Australia -- This weekend Magnetic Island Buddha Dharma will host the visit of Australian Buddhist Monk, Ajahn Sujato, who will be conducting a day of teachings.
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The Age, July 6, 2005
Sydney, Australia -- The Dalai Lama, who is celebrating his 70th birthday, will visit Australia and New Zealand in 2007.
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by Andrew Lam, Pacific News Service, Jun 30, 2005
Once oriented toward Europe, Australia today describes itself as part of Asia, a change reflected in many Australians' embrace of Buddhism, the second-largest religion in the country. But tensions resulting from Asian immigration remain.
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By SUE WALLACE, The Border Mail, June 25, 2005
Albury, Victoria (Australia) -- A GROUP of Tibetan monks will bring their rich culture to the Border next week. Five monks from the monasteries of India will share their dance, music and traditions of Tibet and its people.
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Sakya.com.au, May 26, 2005
Canberra, Australia -- Among the many Tibetan Lamas who have impacted the Buddhist scene in Australia is Lama Choedak Rinpoche, who has founded fourteen centre across Australia and New Zealand. Lama Choedak Rinpoche completed his monastic training under the guidance of His Eminenece Chogye Trichen Rinpoche and graduated among the first group of senior Sakya monks who underwent three and half years of Lamdre Lobshe retreat in Lumbini.
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By Graeme Lyall AM, The Buddhist Channel, April 5, 2005
Sydney, Australia -- For the first time in the history of Australia, Vesak will receive recognition by the Government of New South Wales. An exhibition depicting the life of the Buddha and activities of Buddhist organisations and temples of the three major traditions of Buddhism will be staged in the Fountain Court in the foyer of the New South Wales Parliament House from 23-27 May.
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By ELLEN VAZ, Orange Yourguide, 5 April 2005
Molong, Australia -- GRAINS of sand and the chants of Tibetan Buddhist monks were carried away by the wind yesterday in a ceremony symbolising impermanence.
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By KELLY FITZGERALD, Orange Your Guide, 4 April 2005
Molong, Australia -- Seven monks performed in a Tibetan dance and chanting concert at Calare Public School on Saturday night. The monks are visiting Orange as part of their Sacred Footsteps tour, which takes them around Australia raising money to establish a hospital in India.
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The Buddhist Channel, Jan 17, 2005
Bendigo, Australia -- On Saturday January 15 the Great Stupa Exhibition centre was officially opened by Tenzin Phuntsok Atisha, His Holiness the Dalai Lama's representative in Australia.
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The Advertiser, January 13, 2005
Bendigo, Australia -- Almost 24 years in the making, The Great Stupa Exhibition Centre will officially open in Bendigo on Saturday. The opening is expected to draw monks, nuns and Buddhists from across Australia.
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By Aaron Patrick, Business Telegraph, Dec 22, 2004
Sydney, Australia -- A former trader at the heart of Australia's largest currency scandal will not hire a lawyer to defend himself against criminal charges, having abandoned capitalism for Buddhism.
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By KELLY FITZGERALD, Orange Your Guide, November 25, 2004
Orange City, Australia -- Meditation, grief counselling and drug-free treatment are some of the precepts of the Orange branch of a Buddhist group, which is currently working towards establishing a retreat in Newbridge.
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AAP, November 11, 2004
Sydney, Australia -- LEISEL JONES is thinking of becoming a Buddhist. Jones, 19, has done some soul-searching since the Athens Olympics with the help of the Dalai Lama.
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by Graeme Lyall, The Buddhist Channel, Nov 3, 2004
Burwood, NSW (Australia) -- The Fourth Buddhist Summit ? World Buddhist Conference planned to be held in Yangon, Union of Myanmar from the 9th until the 13th of December, 2004 has been cancelled.
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The Advertiser, 29 October 2004
Bendigo, Australia -- FOR more than 20 years the Atisha Centre's Venerable Gyatso has dreamed of building his own retreat.
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by Jane Metlikovec, The Herald Sun, Oct 26, 2004
Victoria, Australia -- BUDDHISTS have pleaded with a Government inquiry to help them bury their dead facing west to prevent grieving relatives from being cursed.
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By WAYNE THOMPSON, New Zealand Herald, Oct 25, 2004
Chinese New Zealanders are finding a little piece of home sprouting in a Manukau City field.
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