Source: The West Australian
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The golden statue gracing a new Tibetan Buddhist temple in the Swan Valley took Indian craftsmen more than four years to complete and its unveiling next week will mark the realisation of a 30-year dream.
For Tibetan Buddhist Society WA director Les Sheehy and his wife Margaret the temple’s completion marks the formal coming of age of an organisation that started in 1978 as a series of weekly meditation classes and sessions in the front room of their Perth home.
The $3 million temple, paid for by donations and fees from meditation courses attended by more than 20,000 people over the past three decades, is the first of its kind in WA and only the second traditional Tibetan temple built in Australia.