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Tibetan Buddhist protest, Dunedin, 2008

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Tibetan Buddhist protest, Dunedin, 2008

A picture of Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama stands in Dunedin's Dhargyey Buddhist Centre, above the monks Venerable Lhagon Rinpoche and Geshe Nyima Dorjee. Geshe Nyima had left his homeland, Tibet, two months before this photo was taken in 2008. He planned to take part in a nationwide protest against China's occupation of Tibet and its suppression of Tibetan Buddhism.

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Otago Daily Times

Reference: 31 March 2008, p. 3

by Craig Baxter

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Paul Morris, Diverse religions – Forms of Buddhism, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/32258/tibetan-buddhist-protest-dunedin-2008 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Paul Morris, published 28 April 2011.