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..Tibet Independence Activists Could be Shot in Earthquake Zone, 21 April The monks and nuns who helped the Victims Of The Earthquake, are the true heroes! sms 'DONATE TIBET' to 6033 to donate 1 € (EUR 0,50 for every sent message) The profits go directly to the NGO's who are active in the aerea Click here to make a donation Lama Kunga and his Yushu contacts Lama Kunga- la wants to share the Yushu news with you again: 13 May The young woman with the fracturized leg, who was brought to hospital last time, is dead. Having had a severe infection the leg was amputated. But it was too late for anything. From the hospitalized monks survived approx. 50 %. In general there will be many handicapped people in Yushu, where the necessary facilities and supports are still missing. During the first phase right after the earthquake many "minor" injuries became treated with amputation - what can be done very quickly - because of there being so many severely, life endangered injured, who needed the the doctors' interventions more urgent. Physicians and time were missing at that time. Thrangu monastery is in steady discussion about where to rebuilt. The oldest monk - the old physician - recommended, to rebuild the monastery on the old area. For being a place blessed by the 7. Karmapa, it should not be given up. What would come, would come. The like it would be with earthquakes. Thrangu Rinpoche himself did not decide yet. In the tents of Yushu people are waiting for the decision, too, where the town will be rebuilt. The Tibetans are not happy with the idea of a Western style town. They say, for the poor it is a real blessing to have "a roof above their head". But who can afford it, wants to buld up on his/ her own. Tibetan style. They do not want to live - as it was heard - in a geometrically organized town right from the drawing board, in one of 80 quarters in anonymous buildings made with precast concrete slabs. Those people, not registered in Yushu, but being with their families - like it is normal for nomads at winter time - are meanwhile ordered to leave the town. They have to make room for 30.000 Chinese workers, sent to help rebuilding the town. For the Tibetans it is unclear until now, how they could overcome up to 5 years - what is the amount of time, planned for rebuilding the town - in tents. The town rebuilding is planned to start at Thrangu monastery area, where the damages had been the biggest. It seems to be impressive, how quickly a certain "normality" is coming up: many shops have opened now. You can buy almost everything again. P. S.: Own annotation: You should bring to mind the fact, what it means to a town with 80.000 inhabitants, which lost just now approx. 10.000 persons, when 30.000 Chinese workers will come. While the estimate for the town rebuilding is about 5 years, it is quite likely, that most of the workers will bring their families to Yushu and will stay there lateron. This means, that out of those 30.000 can become easily 60.000 or more people. Tibetans could become a minority. Latest news 6 May 2010 Every day Lama Kunga is talking now on the phone to approx. 10 or 11 different persons in Yushu. A part are family members of him or injured in hospitals, another part are lamas and monks for instance from Thrangu monastery, another part are visitors from abroad and neighbours. Lama Kunga has requested 4 persons, he is trusting in, to go through Yushu with their eyes wide open to look for persons, being in need of something. Especially they check up on the poor and the ones, who apparently are not able to help themselves. Of course it helps a lot that they - as Tibetan native speakers - can ask in their mother tongue, how people are and what they would be in need of. With the money, you donated here, there already help is provided. One of the visitors from abroad kindly is financing Lama Kunga's activities in advance, until he himself will reach Yushu. One example for that help: One of Lama Kunga's delegates saw a young woman about 3 days ago, sitting in the rubbles of her house. He asked her, what had gone on. She replied, that she had lost her entire family. The helper noticed, that the woman could not move properly and asked about that. She said, that one of her thigs was fractured. So she had been sitting there with the broken bone for more than 14 days. On enquiery she said, she would not feel any pain, nor anything else. After a longer discussion a physician was organized, who stated after the examination, that she had to go to hospital urgently. There she is now. Her stay there is for free. But everything, that happened before, was paid with your donations. As basic equipment Yushu inhabitants received one tent per family, blankets, a cooker and some wood or gas. From that time on people had to buy their fuel themselves. The families got for each dead person 8000 Yuan as support. Daily every person receives 10 Yuan. That is enough to buy for instance one meal a day. Of course that is not enough to live on. But still the gouvernment and the monasteries are providing water, rice, barley etc. With the latter that always worked smoothly. But on the official side, there had been initial problems. So stronger ones had pushed forward and even had taken double or triple what they had been entitled to, while the weaker ones had come out empty handed. Meanwhile the food distribution has been handed over to the quarter mayors, who often are Tibetans, and this is working out well now. That Chinese soldiers took away the goods from those, who had taken them unauthorized, is considered an act of especially commendable justice by the Tibetans. Tibetans are grateful, too, for the fact, that Chinese soldiers really investigate in- and outgoing persons and the goods, they have with them. It seems, that a lot of looters try to make their business in Yushu. The monks are untiringly in close contact with the people. Monks support them with advice and ritual and by distributing food. The monks work is considered indispensable by the inhabitants. The monks are constantly living for the people's needs. The people, living in the tent towns of the Yushu area and it's surroundings, are trying to bring a kind of normality in their lives. So the first shops became re-opened now. What is putting a constant strain on the people is not only the cold weather, but as well the heavy winds raising a lot of dust and ashes and making breathing difficult. Still people are digging in the rubbles for their goods. Still corpses are found. And still many people are missing. Before, some of the missing were found in hospitals. But many others have vanished until now. Until mid of May the decisions will be made, whether Yushu will be rebuilt in the same place as before or whether it will be moved somewhere else - on a more stable ground. The Tibetans are devided half/ half. One half wants to have the town in the same place. The other one wants to feel more secure in another one. Apparently geological researches showed that the area around the new airport would be the best place, besides the area, where the horse contests are usually take place. In Thrangu Monastery as well, the decision is to be made about the own monastery. Until now several places have been investigated yet. Near an intact temple in a valley nearby, there seems to be a promising place. Lama Kunga is sad about the fact, that still he did not receive his visa. But his people in Yushu told him, that this is good, too. So he gained time to collect the donations, which turned out to be really helpful now. Anyhow Lama Kunga got the Chinese embassy's promise, that he will get it. So it might take only some more weeks from now. Lama Kunga requests you, not to worry about the distribution of your donated money. For sure it is not possible to give something to everybody. But he is trying to contribute through his friends, to ease the biggest misery. By the kindness of one of his friends, who gave him the money in advance without charging him anything, Lama Kunga was able to really move quite much. He wants to make very clear, that the monastery is quite fine for the beginning now. So your money goes mainly to the ordinary Yushu people. Lama Kunga is happy - despite all the bereavement he of course has to bear - about the deep connection with you, resulting from what has happened. He gives his word to keep on doing the best, he can. He said, that all the people, having been supported with your money, came to know, that their support was made possible with your donations from Germany. China chasing monks out of quake zone, denies Tibetan donors entry Phayul[Thursday, April 22, 2010 10:57] By Kalsang Rinchen Dharamsala, April 22 – Chinese government has ordered monasteries to recall their monks who have been helping in relief and rescue effort in Yushu County (Kyegudo in the traditional Tibetan Province on Kham) which was hit by a 6.9 magnitude earthquake on April 14, according to the Associated Press. Survivors of the deadly earthquake say the Tibetan monks helped first, bringing food, pitching tents, digging through rubble and cremating bodies. “Now the Buddhist monks who responded first are being pushed out of the disaster area and off of state media — apparently sidelined by Beijing's unease with their heroism and influence”, reported the AP. Yet state-run broadcasters and news agency have given scant attention to the Tibetan monks and instead highlighted the hard work of the military and the People's Armed. Woeser, a noted Tibetan writer and poet based in Beijing, told the AP, citing her Han and Tibetan friends in the quake hit area that the monks were upset and not willing to go but had no choice. "A clear reason for the order wasn't given but it was very strict," Woeser was quoted as saying. "Local officials told them through translators in Tibetan 'You've done everything already. You've done too much. You have to leave Yushu now, otherwise there will be trouble.'" Woeser further said local Tibetans were frustrated because they believe the monks are still needed to help dig out the dead and perform funeral rites. Meanwhile, Chinese authorities in Driru County have stopped 14 trucks loaded with relief materials from heading to the quake hit area of Kyegudo, said Ngawang Tharpa, an exile Tibetan with contact in the area. 18 Tibetan businessmen from Driru County including Drukla, Thukje Kyap, Drotse, Lhadruk and Punkar had raised around one million Chinese Yuan for the relief materials to be delivered to the quake hit area. The Tibetans were told by the authorities that the relief materials must be channelled through the County Administration. In Sog County, the Chinese authorities have stopped monks of Sog Tsenden monastery from heading to Kyegudo with money collected as donations for the quake survivors, the same source said. After being pressurised by the County authorities, the monks had no option but to leave the money at the County administration. Chinese government's official figures put the quake death toll at 2064 but exile Tibetans contend that close to 10,000 people have died in the earthquake. VOA Tibetan Saturday, 17 April 2010 Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, said he is eager to visit the affected region to offer consolation. In a statement posted on his Web site Saturday. "To fulfil the wishes of many of the people there, I am eager to go there myself to offer them comfort," the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader said in a statement issued from Dharamshala, his home in exile in northern India. The Dalai Lama added that the remote western Qinghai province, where the quake struck on Wednesday, killing at least 1,339 people and injuring nearly 12,000 others, also "happens to be where" he was born. "Because of the physical distance between us, at present I am unable to comfort those directly affected, but I would like them to know I am praying for them," he said. He praised the response of Chinese authorities to the disaster, "especially Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, who has not only personally offered comfort to the affected communities, but has also overseen the relief work." There was no response to his remarks from the Chinese government. Most of the region's population is Tibetan. Beijing accuses the Dalai Lama of fomenting separatism in Tibetan areas, an allegation he denies. The Chinese government has routinely criticized his travels as political campaigning, making it unlikely that he would be allowed to visit. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao finished his two-day visit to the quake-hit region on Friday. He said the whole country is grieving for the victims of the earthquake. The quake and its aftershocks toppled poorly-built houses, leaving hundreds of thousands homeless. Two years ago, a massive 7.9 magnitude quake hit the neighboring Sichuan province, killing nearly 90,000 people. Some information for this report was provided by AP, AFP and Reuters.  Tibetan monks help China quake rescue Tibetan Parliament Prays for Earthquake Victims in Tibet On the morning of April 14, 2010, a large-scale earthquake occurred in Kyigudo, Yulshul County, Kham, Tibet which claimed lives of many hundreds of people and left thousands hurt which is unprecedented in Tibetan history. A crisis situation has taken place with destructions caused to monasteries, schools and private houses. The Tibetan Parliament-in-exile holds solemn prayers and expresses condolence and solidarity to those who have died and all their surviving family members. We also appeal to the related International organizations to send representatives to Tibet for quick relief service to the affected local people and urge meaningful assistance to them by the Chinese government rather than acting before the world community. We thank the monasteries nearby and many Tibetans who have provided relief support to them. Tibetan Parliament-in-exile Dharamsala April 15, 2010 An earthquake occured in Tibet 14 April 2010 ༄༅།། བོད་མདོ་ཁམས་སྐྱེ་རྒུ་མདོ་ཁུལ་ས་གཡོའི་རྒོད་ཆགས་བྱུང་བ་རྣམས་ལ་སྩལ་བའི་སེམས་གསོ་འཚམས་འདྲིའི་གསུང་འཕྲིན། ༄༅།
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ཡོད་པར་བཤད། ༤། ད་ལྟ་ཞིན་ཧྭ་གསར་ཁང་གིས་བསྒྲགས་པ་ལྟར་ན། ས་ཡོམ་ཁྲོད་མི་ ༣༠༠
བསད་ཅིང་ ༨༠༠༠ རྨས་འདུག་ཟེར། ༥། རྒྱ་ནག་གཞུང་གིས་དབུས་གཞུང་དང་ཉེ་འཁོར་གྱི་ཞིང་ཆེན་ཁག་ནས་མྱུར་སྐྱོབ་རུ་ཁག་བཏང་དང་གཏོང་བཞིན་པ་ཡིན་ཚུལ་བཤད་འདུག ༦། ཞིན་ཧྭ་གསར་ཁང་གིས་བསྒྲགས་པ་ལྟར་ན། སྐྱེ་རྒུ་མདོ་གྲོང་བརྡལ་གྱི་ཁང་བ་བརྒྱ་ཆ་ ༨༥ ལྷག་འགྱེལ་འདུག་ཟེར། ༧། ནོར་བསམ་རྒྱལ་ཞུ་བ་ཞིག་གིས་འདི་ག་གསར་ཁང་ལ་བཏང་ཡོང་དོན། ༼སྐྱེ་དགུ་མདོའི་གྲོང་ཁྱེར་དུ་ཡོད་པའི་བོད་མི་ཞིག་ལ་ཁོ་བོས་ད་ལྟ་འབྲེལ་བྱས་ཏེ་ད་ལྟའི་གནས་སྟངས་དངོས་ག་འདྲ་ཞིག་ཡིན་མིན་དྲིས་སྐབས། བོད་མི་དེས་བརྗོད་དོན་ས་འགུལ་བརྒྱབ་ནས་ཆུ་ཚོད་ ༧ ཕྱིན་སོང་ད་ལྟ་བར་དུ་རོགས་བྱེད་མཁན་གཅིག་ཀྱང་འབྱོར་མ་སོང་། ཡུལ་དེའི་ཁང་བ་བརྒྱ་ཆའི་དགུ་བཅུ་བརྡིབས་ནས་འོག་ཏུ་མི་མང་བོའི་ཚེ་སྲོག་འགྲོ་བཞིན་པས་ངོ་མ་ཡིད་སྐྱོ་བའི་གནས་འདུག ཁོ་བོའི་བཟའ་ཚང་སྲོག་མགོ་ཐོན་པ་ཙམ་བྱུང་སོང་ཞེས་བརྗོད་སོང་༽ཟེར། ཡང་ཁོས།
༼ཁ་བརྡ་རིང་བོར་བྱེད་མ་ཐུབ། རྒྱུ་མཚན་ནི་འབྲེལ་བ་བྱེད་ཡུལ་གྱི་ལག་ཐོག་ཁ་པར་དུ་གློག་རྫོགས་ལ་ཉེ་བས་དང་། སྐྱོབས་མཁན་མེད་པའི་བོད་མི་མང་བོའི་ཚེ་སྲོག་འགྲོ་བཞིན་འདུག༽ཟེར།  More news on WWW.Tibettimes.net A series of strong earthquakes in western China has left at least 400 people dead and more than 10,000 injured. The toll was expected to rise as many people were trapped in rubble in the mountainous… Tibet earthquake death toll rises to 400  Dalai Lama offers prayers for victims of Tibet earthquake Phayul[Wednesday, April 14, 2010 16:13] Dharamsala, April 14 - His Holiness the Dalai Lama who returned to Dharamsala yesterday after completing his tour of Slovenia and Switzerland offered his prayers to the victims of the earthquake in Yushu (Kyegudo)County today. "I am deeply saddened by the loss of life and property as a result of the earthquake that struck Kyigudo (Chinese - Yushu) this morning," the Tibetan leader said on his website. "We pray for those who have lost their lives in this tragedy and their families and others who have been affected. A special prayer service is being held at the main temple (Tsuglagkhang) here at Dharamsala on their behalf. "It is my hope that all possible assistance and relief work will reach these people. I am also exploring how I, too, can contribute to these efforts." Dear friends, we got the sad news, that by the severe earthquake in Chinghi Thrangu Rinpoche's monastery in Yushu was destroyed. We heard, that about 13 lamas died, among them Lama Kungala's Lama. It is very likely, that Lama Kungala's family did not survive, due to their living in the narrow midtown of Yushu, which was destroyed 90 %. Lama Kungala requested us to recite the OM MANI PEME HUM for all suffering beings. P. S. Just now we got the info, that Tenga Rinpoche's monastery Benchen is damaged, too. But we got no info, up to which extend. news from Karma Thekchen Yi Ong Ling Halscheid Retreat Centre Lama Kunga is leading the 3 year retraite in Germany, Top |