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News in pictures
The Dhamma Times, 2 January 2005
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PATRICK
LIN/AFP/ Getty Images
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Master Hsing Yun of the Taiwanese Buddhist
organization Fo Guang Shan prays against the backdrop of a large Buddha
statue for victims of Asian tidal wave disasters in a memorial service
attended by some 500 followers in Taipei. |
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ROMEO
GACAD/AFP/Getty Images
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A group of monks pray outside the government
Patong hospital in Phuket during a religious service for blessings
and cleansing. The hospital is one of the medical center where casualties
from the tsunami disaster were brought for treatment and also served
as morgue for the hundreds of bodies where relatives claimed their
dead. |
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Stephen
Chernin/Getty Images
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Former US President Bill Clinton, US
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and Buddhist monks listen as Venerable
Pandit Piyatissa speak during a visit to the New York Buddhist Vihara
December 31, 2004 in the Queens borough of New York City. |
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SENA
VIDANAGAMA/AFP/ Getty Images
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Sri Lankan women offer prayers before
an image of Lord Buddha at the Gangarama Temple in Colombo. |
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