Dalai Lama absent as Vietnam hosts Buddhist festival
                   
buddhistchannel.tv     May 16, 2008            

Hanoi, Vietnam -- But two prominent Buddhist congregations were absent: the Dalai Lama's Tibetan Buddhist sangha, and the banned Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam, or UBCV, which opposes the official government-affiliated Vietnam Buddhist Sangha. In an interview in April, the vice head of the... [read full story]                    


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