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Khaleej Times, (AFP), October 29, 2004
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Canada's mission in Sri Lanka is to re-open, a week after an anthrax scare sparked a diplomatic crisis, which deepened Friday after Buddhist monks described how they were forced to strip.
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by Sarath Malalasekera, Lanka Daily News, Oct 29, 2004
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Chief Magistrate and Additional District Judge Ms. Sarojini Kusala Weerawardena yesterday sentenced Gamini Ranawaka of Wijerama Mawatha, Colombo, who was charged with superimposing the Buddha's image on women's clothing through the Internet, to two years rigorous imprisonment, suspended for five years.
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PTI, Oct 28, 2004
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka lodged a strong protest with Canada after its diplomats allegedly disrobed three Buddhist monks and forced them under a shower during an anthrax scare, a senior Minister said today, as Canada denied that the monks, seeking visas at the Canadian embassy in Colombo, were forced to strip.
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Borneo Bulletin (AFP), Oct 27, 2004
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka's influential Buddhist clergy Tuesday protested to the Canadian High Commission (embassy) here after staff members disrobed three monks who had triggered an anthrax scare.
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by Wasantha Ramanayake, Lanka Daily News, Oct 23, 2004
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- The Court of Appeal yesterday issued notice on the Commissioner of Motor Traffic in the writ application compelling the commissioner to issue a driving licence to a Buddhist monk.
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by Renu Kshetry, The Himalayan Times, October 21, 2004
33-year-old Ani, two others to act in documentary on life of nuns.
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Mail and Guardian Online (Sapa-DPA), 26 October 2004
New Delhi, India -- The Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, will visit South Africa in November, it was announced on Tuesday.
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TibetNet, October 25, 2004
Dharamsala, India -- His Holiness the Dalai Lama yesterday graced the 44th anniversary celebrations of Bhuso Khang (nursery for Tibetan children) or the Tibetan Children?s Village school as it is called now.
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Sify News, 23 October, 2004
Nagpur, India -- As many as 65,000 people have embraced Buddhism at Deeksha Bhoomi in Nagpur on 'Dhamma Chakra Pravartan Din' on Friday.
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ANI, Oct 22, 2004
Dharamshala, India -- A five-day-long conference on Buddhist teachings and science presided over by the Dalai Lama concluded in Dharamshala on Friday.
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