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And in Mumbai Sunday, a Buddhist monk apparently committed suicide to protest a development in the northeastern suburb of Deonar — or was he murdered because he stood in the developer's way? Some called the death suspicious and violence erupted among the Buddhist dalits in the city. Read about it here, here, and here.

And the Chicago Sun-Times profiled a five-acre temple complex, including a six-bedroom apartment for resident monks, in Homestead, Florida, that has become a community center for local Thais.