MELBOURNE -- Shimmering white against the bright blue Australian sky, in a quiet corner of bushland 160 km northwest of Melbourne, a large concrete structure that is home to one of the most important artifacts in the Buddhist world is taking shape.
This is the Great Stupa of Universal Compassion, guarded at its entrance by two marble Tibetan snow lions, vibrant in red, yellow and green, and ringed by scores of bronze prayer wheels.
