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Lantern pins down tight-knit community

Left and below left: Buddhist monk     Wimalananda unveiled the new lantern made from wool and drawing pins at the       Buddhist Temple of Victoria.Left and below left: Buddhist monk Wimalananda unveiled the new lantern made from wool and drawing pins at the Buddhist Temple of Victoria.

BERWICK’S Buddhist Temple of Victoria celebrated the Buddhist birthday by creating a lantern made of more than 300 bundles of wool and 1500 drawing pins.
The unique lantern is a decoration made every year to symbolise the Buddha and in past years the lanterns were created from paper, tissue paper and bamboo.
Buddhist monk Saddhanusari spent more than a month constructing the two-metre high piece of art.

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