China says state owns Tibetan religious relics
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All religious artifacts in places of worship in Tibet belong to the Chinese state, the official Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday, in Beijing's latest attempt to exert control over religion in the restive Himalayan region.
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BAMIAN, Afghanistan -- The pair of majestic Buddha cliff-carvings are still disfigured, vandalized three years ago by Afghanistan's Taliban rulers. But little by little, what remains of the ancient treasures is being restored, with iron rods shoring up their niches and concrete being pumped into cracks across the crumbling stone.
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A truck carrying Tibetan Buddhist pilgrims overturned on a mountain road in western China Monday, killing at least 54 people and injuring 41, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
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A controversial rail link has led to record numbers of tourists visiting Tibet, Chinese state media reports.
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China on Thursday unveiled a landmark law on property rights that will bolster protection of private assets and stem illegal expropriation, as the government seeks to balance private investment and state control.
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The Dalai Lama's special envoy has  arrived in China for talks on the exiled spiritual leader's  aspirations for Tibetan autonomy, the third such visit in three  years, officials in Washington said on Tuesday.
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ELISTA. Nov 30 (Interfax-South) - The Dalai Lama held a ceremony to consecrate the Kalmyk Khurul temple near Elista, Kalmykia, on Tuesday, an Interfax correspondent reported.
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GONGSHAN, China  - When China's communist army razed his church, Jesse's grandfather climbed into the forests stacked up above his valley and carved a hole in the trunk of a tree to hide his bible.
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The US hands over more than 400 Incan and pre-Columbian artefacts to the government of Peru.
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Tales of corruption, looting  and religious rivalry are swirling around the spot where Buddha  is said to have gained enlightenment in eastern India some  2,500 years ago, sullying one of Buddhism's holiest sites.
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Tibet's second-holiest monk, the Panchen Lama, has visited Lhasa on a rare trip to the Himalayan region by the living Buddha, whose selection in 1995 was marred by controversy after the exiled Dalai Lama chose another boy.
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Hundreds of Buddhist monks, celebrating a U.S. award for the Dalai Lama, clashed with police for four days in the capital of Tibet, the far-west Himalayan region of China, a Hong Kong newspaper said on Sunday.
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Imperial Qing dynasty tombs near Beijing which date back more than 300 years are under threat from illegal mining, Xinhua news agency reported.
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As Bush prepares to honor him, China's continuing obsession with the Tibetan spiritual leader reveals a grudging respect
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Hong Kong officials investigate after TV programmes beamed into China were hijacked by spiritual group Falun Gong.
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BEIJING, Feb. 7 -- A new government-sponsored survey on spirituality in China has found that the number of religious believers among the country's 1.3 billion people is far higher than generally  known, amounting to as many as 300 million.
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An India-based human rights watchdog has denounced China for human rights abuses in Tibet last year and predicted that religious repression would get worse in 2007.