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Kōrero: Religion and society

Buddhist, Te Whanganui-a-Tara

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Man and women in sitting cross-legged at Buddhist shrine

Ko Rohit Vig rāua ko Varadevi, he Buddhist, i Te Whanganui-a-Tara i te marama o Pēpuere i te tau 1997. Ahakoa te wāhi nui o te whakapono Karaitiana ki roto o Aotearoa, kawea mai ai e ngā manene hōu ō rātou whakapono me te aha, me te whirinaki atu o ētahi o te iwi kāinga ki aua whakapono.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1997/0510/22A

by Craig Simcox

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

John Stenhouse, Religion and society – Towards secularism and religious diversity, 1970–21st century, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/2534/buddhist-te-whanganui-a-tara (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā John Stenhouse, i tāngia i te 3 March 2009.