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Hundreds of Tibetans, including Buddhist monks and nuns, Wednesday remembered their forefathers' uprising against the Chinese annexation of their land in 1959 and chanted slogans for a free Tibet in Kathmandu despite a massive police crackdown and arrests.

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Only 81 days are left for the promulgation of a new constitution that will consolidate Nepal as a secular republic.

The deposed king, accompanied by his wife, the former queen Komal, went to the Bankali forest area adjoining the revered Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu where a Nepali baba who has followers in both India and Nepal is conducting a maha yajna.

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Ahead of the 51st anniversary of a failed uprising by Tibetans against the invasion and annexation of their country by China, Nepal police Sunday arrested the envoy of exiled Tibetan leader Dalai Lama in Kathmandu.

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KATHMANDU: A 23-year-old Business Studies graduate from Pilani in Rajasthan has become Nepal's latest beauty queen and the first winner of the contest held for Indians and people of Indian origin in the Himalayan republic.

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More than £14,000 has been raised to ensure that one of the last remaining traditional Sherpa homes will be preserved as a museum. Prince Charles was appointed president of the Sherpa Heritage Trust, and Sir Chris Bonington, the mountaineer, its patron. Supported also by Doug Scott CBE and chairman Maggie Burgess, the project has raised funds through the charity Community Action Nepal.

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Children in two Nepalese villages have reportedly celebrated the end of an annual ten-day "cursing festival".

The young residents of the neighbouring Parsawa and Laxmipur took advantage of the event to insult one another around penis-shaped arrangements of straw in parks and other communal areas, AFP reports.

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KATHMANDU, Nepal— Dawa Steven Sherpa is only 25 but has already climbed Mt. Everest twice. The last time he was on top of the Earth’s highest point, he picked up a small stone for President Barack Obama.

The stone was given to Nepal’s prime minister, who gave it to Obama at the United Nations in September to symbolize the growing problem of global warming, which threatens the world’s highest mountain range—the Himalayas.

“Everest is changing,” said Dawa Steven, as he is called. “A few years ago, the summit was a large icy area where 50 people might fit. Now only 20 can be there—the cornice [of snow] is slowly breaking off and more rock is exposed. It may be global warming.”

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KATMANDU, Nepal - Nepal's major political parties have pledged they won't call general strikes or road blockades in 2011, which the Himalayan country plans to celebrate as Nepal Tourism Year.

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KATHMANDU, Nepal (CDN) — Thrust from their homes in Bhutan after Buddhist rulers embarked on an ethnic and religious purge, Christian refugees in Nepal face hostilities from Hindus and others.

In Sunsari district in southeastern Nepal, a country that is more than 80 percent Hindu, residents from the uneducated segments of society are especially apt to attack Christians, said Purna Kumal, district coordinator for Awana Clubs International, which runs 41 clubs in refugee camps to educate girls about the Bible.

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Pro monarchy groups demanding restoration of constitutional monarchy, and establishment of a Hindu state in Nepal forced its capital to shut down. The streets of Kathmandu, usually a bustling city of about a million people, wore a deserted look on Monday as businesses and schools were closed. Nepali language blog Mysansar has pictures of the city's major thoroughfare during the protest.

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Shanker Man Singh

...[I]t surely was not this feckless government maintaining the charade of being in charge of the country that had the sense to decide on a no-nonsense presidential send-off. Having read of the president’s predilections on similar issues, the impetus must have come from Shital Niwas.

We can only hope that it has set a precedent that is here to stay. For, one never knows with our political bosses. Especially, if we are to go by record of the last two prime ministers, both of whom claim to represent the working class. The manner in which they have comported themselves, they have proved themselves no better than the ‘feudals’ they so love to decry.

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Kathmandu - Nepali police said on Thursday they had arrested four people in connection with the death of an eight-year-old girl believed to have been killed in a human sacrifice.

The police said the child's throat had been slit and her body pierced with a sharp weapon. Local media reported that her blood had been found inside a brick kiln along with religious offerings of money and food.

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Kathmandu - The Nepal Red Cross Society has voted to pay a monthly "salary" to a wounded stray dog that has taken on the job of guarding its office.

NRCS president Man Bahadur Budathoki said the dog had turned up at the organisation's premises in the east of the country last month and remained there ever since, barking at any stranger who approached.

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Nepal has discharged all of the under-aged combatants from the army of the former Maoist rebels. That is being hailed as the closing of a critical chapter for the peace process in the poor, landlocked country between China and India.

More than 200 former child soldiers boarded buses in the rugged highlands of mid-western Nepal for a ride back into civilian life.

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Some regard it as the cutting edge in the organisation of human society. Others discard it as a sect. In a few countries it is considered a threat: its followers - mercilessly persecuted and discriminated against.

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A woman has been tortured by her neighbours for two days and forced to eat human waste before she finally gave in and confessed to practising witchcraft.

Those who beat, punched and kicked Kalli Biswokarma, 47, accused her of casting evil spells on a schoolteacher who had fallen ill in the village of Pyutar, 40 kilometres south of Nepal's capital, Kathmandu.

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1 February, 2010 - Every year, thousands of yogis, masters, scholars and practitioners of the Drukpa Kagyu religion from all over the world gather at Kathmandu, Nepal for their annual Drukpa council (ADC) to share ideas and strengthen relationships within the lineage and exchange the richness of its spiritual legacy.

It is the worldís largest assembly of masters of the Drukpa Kaguy lineage.

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Nepal will play host to a royal wedding with a difference when an openly gay Indian prince marries his partner at a Hindu temple in Kathmandu.

The ceremony is the start of what Nepalese lawmaker Sunil Babu Pant hopes will become a lucrative business for his country, whose once thriving tourist industry is still reeling from a decade-long civil war that ended in 2006.

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KATMANDU - NEPAL'S highest court says it has blocked a government plan to give money to widows to make them more attractive to future husbands, after women's rights groups complained it was sexist.

The Government announced last year it would introduce a 50,000-rupee (S$894) grant for marriages involving widowed women, who are frequently ostracised by traditional communities in Nepal.

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Five foetuses in a plastic bag fished out by a ragpicker from a dump by the side of one of Kathmandu valley's holiest - and most polluted - rivers has raised the spectre of flourishing illegal abortions, police said.

Kajal Kumari, a ragpicker who had Wednesday gone to the Kuleshwor area of Kathmandu valley, the place where Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal's family residence is located, found the bag in a garbage dump by the side of the Bishnumati river that flows along some of the holiest Hindu and Buddhist shrines in the valley.

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A year after Bollywood film Chandni Chowk to China triggered an uproar in Nepal with its claim that Gautam Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, was born in India, an internationally acclaimed journalist and author has stoked the controversy afresh.

Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek and host of a weekly show on international affairs for CNN, has given a fresh lease of life to the controversy by making the same claim.

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Like many others, I had first heard of 'Buddha Boy' during his initial period of meditation and was instantly fascinated with the story, but following this, only tidbits of news trickled out from Nepal. I thought of eventually searching for the recluse and perhaps writing an account of my adventures, imagining myself trampling through the jungle chasing whims and mirages.

I was in Bangkok when news of his public appearance suddenly broke in early November of last year. Reports at that time had indicated he would be offering darshan (a public blessing) for only a few more days. I had to act quickly, so I booked a seat on the next available flight to Kathmandu with hardly a second thought.
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Ram Bahadur Bomjan (Palden Dorje) Speech on October 30, 2009 against animal sacrifice at Gadhi Mai Temple.

Source: www.eTapasvi.com

Palden Dorje is the long awaited Messiah who came as appointed with Jupiter in Ophiuchus.

The avatar addressed the material world with intermediary Venus in Sextans, while retreating before the apocalyptic event of Venus in Hydra.

The Maitreya plans to meditate through 2012 with Uranus in Cetus. His natal Sun hovers over Eris in Cetus, thus protecting the planet. His Guru Jupiter is at the Stargate, thus communicating the solar system to the native galaxy.

Source: www.eTapasvi.com

The 10th National Buddhist Conference started in Lumbini, the birth-place of Gautam Buddha on Thursday.

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Ram Bahadur Bomjan was born on April 9, 1990 in 150 kilometers from Lumbini, the Ratanpuri village, Nepal.

His parents are farmers. His mother, Maya Devi was married at 12.

He started his meditation on May 16, 2005.

After 7 months Ram was bitten by a snake and monks covered him with curtain. After five days it was opened and Ram spoke:

«...A snake bit me but I do not need treatment. I need six years of deep meditation.»

During 9 months he was motionless meditating near the Buddhist’s sacred tree without any food or water.

On January 19, 2006 he spontaneously combusted, burning off the clothes he has worn for nine months but leaving no scars. After some time in a very soft voice he called for his brother. He asked for a red robe to be thrown over him, he wrapped this close over his body, and he said, let him concentrate on his meditation and do not disturb him.

Last teaching given by Ram:
http://www.etapasvi.com/en/video/show/id/38/title/buddha-boy-speech-1-of-2-on-november-22-2008

Link to original:
http://www.etapasvi.com/en/intro/show

KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — After three people died in clashes between police officers and illegal forest settlers, hundreds of protesters burned vehicles and vandalized shops in western Nepal on Saturday, a human rights group said.

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Our country is indeed a land of extreme contrasts. If one ponders carefully on some of our rituals and traditions they too are equally contradictory and not surprisingly we have acclimatized and desensitized ourselves toward their anachronistic, primitive, inhumane, uncivilized and barbaric aspects.

On the one hand our culture observes nag panchami, kag, kukur, goru and gai tihar festivals seemingly recognizing the same consciousness pervading in all living beings and celebrate God’s creation in all its manifestations; respect the animals and birds, feed them and worship them. On the other hand, ours is the land of thousand of rituals and traditions that perpetually demand the blood of God’s creatures, in God’s name and in a joyous and festive mood.

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