The Centre for Buddhist Studies (CBS), Sri Lanka, will be holding its first national conference, reports this Newssite from Sri Lanka.

Take a look at the international involved scholars, if you are interested in this topic.

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A new world of music from around the globe will soon be available to students and scholars. A research team from Indiana University and the University of Michigan has received an $875,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to create an online digital archive of video recordings and a searchable database for research and teaching., reports ascribe.org.

But we have still to wait a little bit to hear and see the first videos. The project will go online about end of 2004.

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There is an interesting ad campaign commissioned in some major british journals. Read the concerning article in the MediaGuardian,,,

"With the burgeoning Sars epidemic spreading fear among travellers worldwide, the Hong Kong tourist board must be ruing the day it commissioned a series of magazine ads telling readers a visit to the city will 'take your breath away' "...

the whole article can be found here

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