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35 Invaluable Hindu and Buddhist Statues Destroyed in Maldives by Extremist Islamic Group 35 Invaluable Hindu and Buddhist Statues Destroyed in Maldives by Extremist Islamic Group 2012 Indian Film Festival in Korea Tanis Wetaskiwin / Grey Buffalo Korean doctor uses meditation as therapy Buddhists in Buryatia, Baikal region celebrate year of Black Dragon Buddhist monk, Dalit leaders get bail Varnsdorf, a north Bohemian town in the path of Buddha Tibetans asked to shun Tibetan New Year celebrations Myanmar: Buddhist festival celebrates a new freedom 35 Invaluable Hindu and Buddhist Statues Destroyed in Maldives by Extremist Islamic Group Posted: 26 Feb 2012 09:00 AM PST ChakraNews.com, Feb 23, 2012 Male, Maldives -- Similar to the Afghan Islamic Taliban's destruction of the priceless  Buddhist and other historic artifacts in 2001, an Islamic Extremist group has vandalized and destroyed precious Buddhist and Hindu statues in th

Asia Society opens new headquarters in Hong Kong Asia Society opens new headquarters in Hong Kong Meet “The Wanderer” Review: Masaoka Shiki Selected Poems, by Burton Watson Pema Chödrön on having “The Courage to Wait” Asia Society opens new headquarters in Hong Kong Posted: 24 Feb 2012 12:00 PM PST Asia Society, the global non-profit organization devoted to educating about Asia and serving as "the leading force in forging closer ties between Asia and the West through arts, education, policy and business outreach," has opened its new headquarters in Hong Kong to a preview. The New York Times reports . The $ 50 million facility will open in the spring (as will another that cost the same in Houston) with the broad-based exhibit "Transforming Minds: Buddhism in Art." "It matches 13 artifacts from the Rockefeller Collection of Asian Art with six contemporary works," the Times writes. For more information about the Asia S