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Exploring Happiness and Its Causes at World's Largest Happiness Conference

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07 Jul 2011 53 views
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Exploring Happiness and Its Causes at World's Largest Happiness Conference
The sixth annual Happiness and Its Causes conference in Brisbane, Australia featured four days of lectures and workshops featuring some of the world's best known happiness gurus, including the Dalai Lama. The successful conference, attended by 2000 people paying big bucks, is just the latest evidence of the recent boom in all things happiness.

The sixth annual Happiness and Its Causes conference in Brisbane, Australia featured four days of lectures and workshops featuring some of the world's best known happiness gurus, including the Dalai Lama.

More than 2000 people paid up to $1800 to attend the two-day main event in mid-June, organized by the Tibetan Buddhist Vajrayana Institute in Sydney.

The successful conference is just the latest evidence of the recent boom in all things happiness.

(READ the story in Stuff.co.nz)

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