International Youth Conference on Buddhism Begins this Week
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Kathmandu, Nepal (CHAKRA) – Approximately one-hundred youths of Buddhist organizations from India, Sri Lanka, Nepal and other nations will take part in an international conference for youths on Buddhism in Nepal. The conference will take place during an 8 day span and is officially called the “South Asia International Buddhist Youth Exchange 2010″ and uses the motto “Buddhist Education, Environment and Entertainment”.
The organisers of the event are the Young Men’s Buddhist Association Nepal (YMBAN) and will be offering more than just discussions and lectures during the conference. The International Buddhist Youth Conference programmes will also offer tours to Lumbini which is the holy birthplace of Lord Buddha.
Although majority of the conference attendees are from India and Nepal, there will also be participants from Thailand, New Zealand, Malaysia and Sri Lanka.
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Buddhist nun raped in bus
A 21-year-old Buddhist nun was gangraped by five men inside a bus in eastern Nepal, media reports said Monday.
The victim, a resident of Bhojpur district in eastern Nepal, was travelling by bus when she was attacked by the group, which also included the driver of the bus.
According to reports, when the bus reached Sabhakhola town in Sankhuwasabha district Saturday night, the five men dragged the woman inside the bus.
The attackers included two teens, aged 17 and 18.
The nun was rescued by an ethnic organisation, the Sanghiya Limbuwan Rajya Parishad, whose members also caught the five men and handed them over to police.
The woman was taken to the local health centre. However, its services proved inadequate and she was taken to the B P Koirala Institute of Health Sciences in Dharan.
There was no immediate reaction from Nepal’s Buddhist organisations.
Nepal is the birthplace of the Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, and many communities still follow the custom of sending one member of the family to a monastery or nunnery to become a monk or a nun.
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