In October 2013, Akong Rinpoche, the founder of the West’s first Tibetan Buddhist center in Scotland, was murdered along with two other men. Trial proceedings began in August of 2014, and have now resolved with two men sentenced to death by the Chengdu Intermediate People’s Court Tibetan for the crimes, with a third imprisoned for enacting a cover-up. Visit Phayul.com for more details.

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