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06-03-2012, 07:28 AM
The 2,000 or so Tibetan Buddhist monks of Kirti Monastery in China's Sichuan Province are at the center of one of the biggest waves of self-immolations in modern history. The acts evoke the self-immolations in the early 1960s by Buddhist monks in South Vietnam.

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