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Witness to a Cremation

NPR
Published August 4, 2004 at 12:00 AM EDT
Ted Rose at the Shambhala Mountain Center.
Ted Rose at the Shambhala Mountain Center.
Ted Rose at the Shambhala Mountain Center.
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Ted Rose at the Shambhala Mountain Center.

When commentator Ted Rose moved from New York City to the Shambhala Mountain Center, a Buddhist retreat in the Colorado Rockies, people talked about the meditation schedules and the communal eating. No one mentioned the center's open-air crematorium.

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