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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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