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Immolations spreading from Tibet to West?
A British monk died in a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in France after he set himself alight, police said Friday.
Updated on: Nov 17, 2012, 01:04:16 IST
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A British monk died in a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in France after he set himself alight, police said Friday.
The 38-year-old Briton, whom police did not name, had been living at Nalanda monastery near the southwestern village of Labastide-Saint-Georges for the past five years.
He carried out the act on Thursday in the garden of the monastery, which is home to 25 monks and 20 lay people and which on its website describes itself as "a unique monastery for Western monks in the Tibetan Geluk tradition".
Police were seeking to establish if he was depressive or might have committed suicide in solidarity with Tibetans in China.
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