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Over 70 Hindus have embraced Buddhism at the Mahabodhi temple in Bodh Gaya, the birthplace of the global religion of peace in eastern India’s Bihar state.
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About 5,000 Dalits, or members of socially underprivileged classes, converted from Hinduism to Buddhism in the cultural capital of Gujarat, Vadodara, defying the state’s anti-conversion law.
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A large number of Dalits, who form the lowest rung of Hinduism’s social ladder, are embracing Buddhism across Haryana in protest against their “oppression” by upper caste Hindus.
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Despite large state subsidies for building Buddhist temples and training Buddhist monks, while “the basics of traditional religions are taught in a historical-informational context” in schools, officials and Buddhist leaders reject suggestions that Buddhism has become Kalmykia’s state religion. Members of religious minorities voiced few complaints about this government support for Buddhism.
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Local officials met Buddhist and Russian Orthodox leaders in Russia’s southern, traditionally Buddhist republic of Kalmykia on 1 April to discuss their common “concern” about the growing influence of religious communities they deem untraditional.
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For the background of the dispute regarding the Mahabodhi Temple which is mentioned in this letter, see the article published in the French section of this website on 24 August 2002. To, Madam Mary Robinson Her Excellency The High Commissioner For Human Rights United Nations Geneva Switzerland Subject : Request to direct the Government of […]
The golden mielie fields of Bronkhorstspruit, 40km east of Pretoria, are a rather unexpected setting for a Buddhist Temple. This might explain why certain visitors have been attracted to the ornate Nan Hua Temple thinking it is a casino. Mail & Guardian – 12 April 2002 – Situated on 15-hectares of land donated to the Taiwanese […]
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