Revered Dalai Lama still key to Tibet stability

By Lindsay Beck, Reuters, Aug 14, 2005

LHASA, Tibet (China) -- "Have you ever seen the Dalai Lama?" asks a young nun in the narrow, winding streets of the Tibetan capital's old town.

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World-famous monks offer Taiwan a treat

BY KO SHU-LING, Taipei Times, Aug 14, 2005

The famous Shaolin monks are now in Taiwan, despite wrangling that has left the organizer and sponsor singing different tunes

Taipei, Taiwan -- Taiwan will get a rare, first-hand glimpse of 1,500-year-old kung fu skills after a group of fighting monks from the world-famous Songshan Shaolin Temple in China's Henan Province arrived on Thursday.

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Tens of thousands flock to Lhasa 'Yogurt' Festival

The Standard (Hong kong/ASSOCIATED PRESS), August 5, 2005

Lhasa, Tibet -- Murmuring Buddhist scripture and spinning hand-held prayer wheels, tens of thousands of people crowded the hills around Tibet's largest monastery Thursday for the annual unveiling of its sacred art.

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School boys shave their heads as part of Buddhist vows

Mainichi Shimbun, Aug 4, 2005

KYOTO, Japan -- About 190 elementary and junior high school students from across Japan entered the Buddhist priesthood at Higashi-Honganji Temple on Thursday.

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Tibet's Potala palace spruced up but nobody home

By Lindsay Beck, The Star (Reuters), Aug 4, 2005

LHASA, Tibet (China) -- The renovation of the Potala palace, once the administrative heart of Tibet, is nearly complete but the imposing red and white monument stands empty of its most important occupant.

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Buddhism festival to be staged in Shanxi

Xinhuanet, July 31, 2005

TAIYUAN, China -- The Second China Wutai Mountain Buddhism Festival and Buddhism Arts Expo is scheduled to begin on August 21 in north China's Shanxi province.

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Tibetan says Buddhism could help China

UPI, July 18, 2005

Hong Kong, China -- Buddhism could play a role in bringing harmony to Chinese society, a top Tibetan official said in Hong Kong Monday.

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Symposium stresses Buddhism's role in building harmonious society

Xinhuanet, July 16, 2005

HONG KONG, China -- Over a dozen venerable monks from China's mainland and Hong Kong on Saturday explored the role of Buddhism in building a harmonious society in the country.

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Thousands attend His Holiness the Dalai Lama's 70th Birthday events in Tokyo

Office of Tibet, Tokyo, July 13, 2005

Tokyo, Japan -- Ten days of celebrations for the 70th Birth Anniversary of His Holiness the Dalai Lama were held in the Japanese capital of Tokyo. The events were organized by The Liason Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama for East Asia, based in Tokyo.

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Theme park devoted to Guanyin

The Standard (Hong kong), July 11, 2005

Nanhai, China -- Taiwanese investors are betting that devotion to a beloved Buddhist saint will be enough to bring a million tourists a year to a theme park built around two temples in a city deep in China's interior that doesn't even have its own airport.

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