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* Nepal’s Two Global Awakenings: From the Bodhi Tree to the Digital Network https://myrepublica.nagariknetwork.com/index.php/news/nepals-two-global-awakenings-from-the-bodhi-tree-to-the-digital-network-74-99.html Bimal Pratap Shah explains: "The Buddha once gathered what he called a sangha, a community of seekers bound by shared purpose and mutual support. In September 2025, his descendants formed their own version of that ancient community, but theirs lived in the cloud. They met not in monasteries but in encrypted chat groups, coordinating not through sermons but through livestreams and shared location data. Their organization was spontaneous, their discipline collective. They had no appointed leaders, no published manifestos. They moved as a single organism, guided by something closer to shared consciousness than traditional command structures. Each smartphone became a sensor. Each social media feed became a heartbeat."

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