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Lama Assassinated

October 9, 2013;

Choje Akong Tulku Rinpoche, a 73 year-old Tibetan Buddhist Lama, was stabbed to death along with his nephew and their driver in Chengdu city in the Sichuan province. Akong Tulku had led the search party that found the reincarnation of the Karmapa, and founded the first Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Europe, the Samye Ling monastery in Scotland. Three suspects have been detained by police.

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