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Around 50,000 monks and laity marched in a candlelight rally through the Buddhist pilgrimage town of Bodh Gaya in Bihar on Sunday evening, 30 Jan 2011 [read blog post further below for news report]. This was the second consecutive evening of such a vigil undertaken by the devout, not all belonging to the Kagyu sect of Tibetan Buddhism which the Karmapa leads; what brought them together was the common feeling of affront felt by them over the insensitivity with which the Indian media, without any sound evidence, is deriding the image and credentials of a Buddhist leader and indulging in extremely coloured reportage. |
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Chorten Rinpoche, who led the Sunday rally at Bodh Gaya, speaking to media persons before the rally began. |
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