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First stage of planned massive Tasmanian Buddhist temple unveiled

Edit Australian Broadcasting Corporation 15 May 2016
Six giant Chinese statues are unveiled in Tasmania, as the first stage of what could one day be the biggest Buddhist temple in the southern hemisphere ... ....

Ain't no mountain high enough

Edit DNA India 15 May 2016
A champion for women's empowerment, a tolerant Islam and for free Tibet, Mostafa Salameh sets his goals higher than the lofty summits he scales, finds out Gargi Gupta. Mostafa Salameh, one of only 12 men to have climbed the highest peaks in all seven continents and skied to the North and South Poles, is an inveterate adventurer. But the physical challenges are not the only ones he's conquered ... The Middle East has a lot of racism....

Oklahoma City-area fine arts notes

Edit The Oklahoman 15 May 2016
All performances are at the theater, 800 W Main. The story centers on a grieving young man and his elderly grandmother. The young man has a harrowing experience on his cross-county bike trip from Seattle to New York City. The play was a finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize ... Using a wide range of media, the artist employs this philosophy alongside Taoist and Buddhist ideologies to examine the relationship of people with nature....

Book Review: Love and Revolution Faiz Ahmed Faiz The Authorised Biography

Edit DNA India 15 May 2016
Love and Revolution Faiz Ahmed Faiz The Authorised Biography ... "Faiz briefed the conference about the vast Buddhist ruins which still existed at the site and proposed that an international university be constructed there for the study of Buddhism and the Pali language." He submitted a plan to the Pakistan government about it in 1974, but it did not work out ... That is why, he has survived the decline and fall of communism....

Modi Sarkar@2: How Modi's ministers are working on critical mandates of economic strategy and national security

Edit The Times of India 15 May 2016
Even as the prime minister and his most powerful colleagues in the cabinet — Union ministers of finance, defence, home — go about their critical mandates of economic strategy and national security, there are others in the A-team who have got cracking relatively silently but with equal effect. ET Magazine caught up with some of the eager beavers in the Modi cabinet. ... On the ministry's achievements ... On the failures ... On the targets....

Elderly Buddhist monk hacked to death in Bangladesh: police

Edit The Hindu 14 May 2016
"Villagers found Bhante (monk) Maung Shue U Chak's dead body in a pool of blood inside the Buddhist temple this morning ... Uddin said the monk, thought to be 75, appeared to have been attacked by at least four people at the Buddhist temple in Baishari, some 350 km southeast of Dhaka early Saturday morning....

MP CM releases Sanchi varsity brochure

Edit The Times of India 14 May 2016
Objective of the university is to impart education in Buddhist teachings, contemporary philosophy, traditions and practice....

Elderly Buddhist monk hacked to death in Bangladesh

Edit Dawn 14 May 2016
“Villagers found Bhante (monk) Maung Shue U Chak's dead body in a pool of blood inside the Buddhist temple this morning ... Uddin said the monk, 75, appeared to have been attacked by at least four people at the Buddhist temple in Baishari, some 350 kilometres southeast of Dhaka early Saturday morning....

Elderly Buddhist monk hacked to death in Bangladesh, say police

Edit The Guardian 14 May 2016
An elderly Buddhist monk was ... “Villagers found Bhante (monk) Maung Shue U Chak’s dead body in a pool of blood inside the Buddhist temple this morning ... Uddin said the monk, thought to be 75, appeared to have been attacked by at least four people at the Buddhist temple in Baishari, around 350km (220 miles) southeast of Dhaka early on Saturday morning....

Monk hacked to death in Bangladesh

Edit Taipei Times 14 May 2016
“Villagers found Bhante [monk] Maung Shue U Chak’s dead body in a pool of blood inside the Buddhist temple this morning ... Uddin said the monk, 75, appeared to have been attacked early yesterday morning by at least four people at the Buddhist temple in Baishari, which is about 350km southeast of Dhaka....

Sri Lankan President Sirisena visits Sanchi

Edit The Times of India 14 May 2016
At Sanchi, Sirisena unveiled the statue of Dhammapathik Anagarika Dharmapala, a Sri Lankan Buddhist revivalist and writer who was one of the founding contributors of non-violent Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism ... He also praised the government for establishing the Sanchi University of Buddhist-Indic Studies....

Buddhist monk hacked to death in Bangladesh: Police

Edit The Times of India 14 May 2016
... Shue U Chak's dead body in a pool of blood inside the Buddhist temple this morning....

Buddhist monk hacked to death in Bangladesh

Edit Topix 14 May 2016
A 75-year-old Buddhist monk was found hacked to death on Saturday in Bangladesh's remote southeastern district of Bandarban, police said, the latest in a spate of murders of religious minorities and secular activists. DHAKA. A 75-year-old Buddhist monk was found hacked to death Saturday in Bangladesh's remote southeastern district of Bandarban, police said, the latest in a spate of murders of religious minorities and secular activists....
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