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Thai Buddhist sect lights a million lanterns for festival
Associated PressThai royalists ask that Amnesty International office be shutRoyalist activists in Thailand say they will present a petition with 1.2 million signatures to the government on Thursday calling for it to shut down the country’s branch of the human rights organization Amnesty International. The activists, members of various small nationalist groups, say Amnesty International…
This may be one of the oldest Buddhist temples ever discovered
Home News (Image credit: ISMEO/Ca' Foscari University of Venice) An ancient temple dating from the early centuries of Buddhism has been unearthed in the Swat Valley in northern Pakistan — part of the ancient Gandhara region that was conquered by Alexander the Great and gave rise to a mixing of Buddhist belief and Greek art.Archaeologists…