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Some masters, such as Buton (Bu-ston Rin-chen grub) assert nondual tantra as a separate category, and some do not.
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Buton an album full of unusual choices -- none stranger than a major R&B star doing a covers album in 2010 -- they get points for bravery.
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The Cia-Cia are a group of former hunter-gatherers from the mountains of Buton who now make up the island's poorest subsistence farmers.
To Save Its Dying Tongue, Indonesian Isle Orders Out for Korean 2009
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The linguists also dangled the prospect of closer economic ties between South Korea, one of Asia's largest economies, and Buton, which once was an important spice-trading hub but now is a struggling outpost reliant on farming, fishing and asphalt exports.
To Save Its Dying Tongue, Indonesian Isle Orders Out for Korean 2009
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The Cia Cia language, spoken on the remote Indonesian island of Buton, has survived for 500 years without a written system of letters.
To Save Its Dying Tongue, Indonesian Isle Orders Out for Korean 2009
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Hoping for a breakthrough, the South Korean linguists traveled to Buton in July to launch the program and attended a Cia-Cia tribal dance.
To Save Its Dying Tongue, Indonesian Isle Orders Out for Korean 2009
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Now he's back on Buton teaching Cia-cia with the Korean script.
To Save Its Dying Tongue, Indonesian Isle Orders Out for Korean 2009
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The Hangeul push on Buton has roots in the work of Lee Hyun-bok, a distinguished linguist now retired from his post at Seoul National University, who has created an international phonetic alphabet based on Hangeul.
To Save Its Dying Tongue, Indonesian Isle Orders Out for Korean 2009
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Based on the tradition of the fourteenth century Sakya master Buton, a great commentator on
Tibetan Astro Sciences ��� 2 History and the Tibetan Calendar 2009
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SORAWOLIO, Indonesia -- In an elementary school here on the remote Indonesian island of Buton, a teacher named Abidin recently began to show students how to write their endangered native language -- in the Korean alphabet.
To Save Its Dying Tongue, Indonesian Isle Orders Out for Korean 2009
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