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By Kalinga Seneviratne
Arecent visit by a group of Vietnamese Buddhists to learn and experience the Mahayana tradition of Buddhism has alerted the Bhutan authorities to the potential of Buddhist cultural tourism to one of the world’s most scenic countries landlocked between India and China in the Himalayan mountains.
Bhutan which was opened to tourism only about three decades ago has been...
Each year on January 26, Australians celebrate “Australia Day”, a national holiday that marks the day Captain Arthur Phillip sailed into Sydney Cove in 1788, planted the Union Jack and proclaimed the continent for the British Crown.
Later it was enshrined in the Australian Constitution that it was terra nullius (unoccupied land). But Australia’s indigenous people claim...