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News in pictures
The Dhamma Times, 8 January 2005
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MARTYN
HAYHOW/AFP/ Getty Images
Britain's Prince Charles light candles at the London Buddhist
Vihara Monastry in West London, 6 January 2005, as the senior
monk, Pandith M. Vajiragnana Nayaka Mahathera receites prayers.
The Prince had gone to thank volunteers for assisting in collecting
items for the Sri Lanka tsunami disaster.
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ROMEO
GACAD/AFP/Getty Images
Two Thai women grieve while a buddhist monks gives blessing
over the remains of a family member, four year old boy Thanapol
Napawal, recovered at a mass grave for tsunami victims in Takua
Pa town, Phang Nga province in southern Thailand.
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Tzu Chi/Dhamma
Times
A Tibetan monk massages the back of a tsunami-affected man at
a relief camp in Nagapatinnam. Buddhist monks have been trained
by controversial US-based Scientologists in a technique called
Assist which talks people out of a focus on a particular event.
Villagers housed at relief camps here seem unaware of the unusual
combination that brought the monks in to talk to them through
a translator and to apply massage to ease their pains. |
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