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Tibetan monastery's treasure recovered

CHINESE police solved the case of a theft of treasure from a famous Tibetan lamasery in northwest China's Qinghai Province, retrieving eight important relics belonging to a pagoda in the temple. The sacred items... ...full story at Shanghai Daily

from Shanghai Daily on Wed, Jul 23 2008

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