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From: Stig Agermose <stig.agermose@get2net.dk>
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 09:13:41
Fwd Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 15:38:26 -0400
Subject: Billy Meier's Buddhist Teacher Is Dead


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Source: The Los Angeles Times,

http://www.latimes.com:80/excite/990703/t000059644.html

During his stay in Samdach Bhante's Indian ashram, Meier claims
to have had UFO sightings and a close encounter with a female
from the Dal universe, all witnessed by several people.

Stig

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Saturday, July 3, 1999

Obituaries

Samdach Bhante; Monk Advised Sihanouk, Nehru

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Samdach Vira Bhante, 110, a Cambodian monk who advised leaders
of Cambodia and India. The Most Venerable Dharmawara Mahathera,
known simply as Bhante to his family and friends, served as
spiritual advisor to Cambodia's King Norodom Sihanouk and kept
watch at the deathbed of India's first prime minister,
Jawaharlal Nehru. The son of an upper-class family in Phnom
Penh, Bhante was a lawyer, judge and provincial governor in
Cambodia with a wife and young daughter when, at the age of 40,
he walked into the forest to follow the teachings of Buddha.
Educated in French schools and fluent in several languages,
Bhante lived in huts and subsisted on raw fruits and vegetables
and handouts from peasant farmers before moving to India, where
he spent 45 years teaching and building a monastery. He gave up
his possessions, cigarettes and alcohol, saying, "You are what
you think. You are what you eat and drink." Bhante came to
California for what he thought would be a quiet life of
meditation with his relatives, refugees from the Cambodian war.
But he was soon asked to build a temple for Stockton's
approximately 16,000 Cambodians, and served as head abbot for
many years. His ashes will be divided between shrines in
Cambodia and India. On June 26 in Stockton.

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