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		<title>Panchen Lama blesses devotees during visit to southern Tibet</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 11th Panchen Lama on Monday visited south Tibet&#8217;s Shannan Prefecture, held large prayer services and gave head-touch blessings to more than 5,000 local devotees.
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		<title>A Catholic church in Tibet</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every daybreak on the southeast edge of the Tibetan Plateau, Lucy walks into the only Catholic Church in Tibet, dips her fingers into the holy water and makes the sign of the cross before praying.
Rain, hail or shine, the 62-year-old has attended masses and sermons since she was baptized as a child. The priest who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Witness to a Tibetan Sky-Burial</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the steps of Drigung monastery, singing a dozen monks. Before she is on the floor of the court, a body in white linen, which had rolled onto a stretcher, carried out at the time. The monks pray for a spirit that was present, when here, but now emancipated from his former home. It is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reincarnation of the Living Buddhas</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The system of reincarnation of Living Buddhas is the main point to distinguish Tibetan Buddhism from other forms of Buddhism. This led to the introduction of the system?
The term Living Buddha emerged in the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) when Emperor Kublai Khan Pagba, head of the Sakya Sect, was honored by the granting of the title [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tibetan Buddhism</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[China is home to a variety of religious beliefs, with the three major world religions &#8211; Buddhism, Catholicism and Islamism &#8211; all with large congregations, organizations and businesses in the country. Buddhism in China mainly includes language Han Chinese Buddhism spread in China in 2 BC, the Tibetan Buddhism, which spread into Tibet in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buddhist Sects and Characteristics</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 15:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Numerous Buddhist Acts emerged after the mid-11th century, including the Nyingma, Gatang, Sagya, Gagyu, Zhigyed, Gyoyul, Gyonang, Kodrag and Xalhu sects. The latter five were rather weak owing to the lack of political support. They were thus forced to join force or were otherwise annexed by other sects, and as individual entities fell into the [...]]]></description>
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