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  • Sitting before an imposing nine-metre-high image of Lord Buddha in the shrine, which is the second largest after the one in Lhasa, Samgeleta, a young monk, said he joined the monastery as a 'bhiksu' when he was only nine.

    The Buddhist Channel 2009

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