Special Prayer for Kyigudo Quake victims
His Holiness the Dalai Lama Leads the second-week Special Prayer for Kyigudo Quake victims
[Wednesday, 28 April 2010,1:13 p.m.]
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| His Holiness the Dalai Lama(L) and His Eminence the XVIIth Gyalwa Karmapa leading special prayer on second-week for Kyigudo earthquake victims, Tuesday, 27 April 2010. |
Dharamshala: His Holiness the Dalai Lama led a mass prayer for the Kyigudo quake victims at Tsuglagkhang, Dharamsala, on Tuesday, April 27 with the presence of His Eminence Gyalwa Karmapa, dignitaries of Central Tibetan Administration, staffs, monks, nuns, lay people and many foreign sympathisers. The prayer began at 1 p.m. and lasted for two hours.
Yesterday morning the local Tibetans in Dharamsala and Jonang Monastery from Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, offered Long Life prayers to His Holiness the Dalai Lama in order to observe the 50th anniversary of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s arrival to Dharamsala in 1960 from Mussoorie.
At the end of the Long Life prayer His Holiness the Dalai Lama addressed the congregation. His address focussed on the proper understanding of reality of trauma and the concept of karma. He recalled the strength of the Buddhist concepts in dealing with the reality of suffering. He especially quoted Shantideva’s verse:
If it is something that can be changed, there is no need to worry;
If it is something that cannot be changed, there is no use to worry.
His Holiness conveyed his heartfelt prayers and condolences to the victims of the quake and made a special mention of appreciation of the monks who had come in large numbers to help the quake victims. His Holiness pointed that donations made with pure heart for the charity would really help the people in pain. His Holiness thanked the large number of Chinese people who have made enormous donations as well.
His Holiness also directed the audience that the congregation would once again meet for another special prayer at Tsuglagkhang on the fourth week of the earthquake on May 4.
It may be recalled here that the Kashag (Council of Ministers) on Monday, April 26th, had made special announcement to the effect that the exile Tibetans worldwide would hold a special mass prayer on same time, same day when the quake hit Kyigudo – on the fourth week of quake on May 4, 2010.
All the Tibetans around the world will observe a minute’s silence at 7:49 a.m, before the prayer, to mourn the death and the suffering caused to the people of the region by the terrible earthquake which hit Kyigudo at that time.
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| Dignitaries of Central Tibetan Administration attending the prayer. |
(source:tibet.net)
4-14 Yushu Earthquake Charity Committee
The Kashag appeals Exile Tibetans to contribute to “4-14 Yushu Earthquake Charity Committee”
[Tuesday, 20 April 2010,2:23 p.m.]
Dharamshala: The Kashag, the executive body of Central Tibetan Administration, through a circular yesterday has urged the exile Tibetans to contribute to the relief of Tibetans in Kyigudo, Kham, Tibet, hit by the 6.9 Richter scale earthquake on April 14,2010.
The Kashag has recalled that the earthquake has not only killed so many Tibetans, injured even more and has destroyed almost everything, including the basic dwellings of the region, causing unimaginable sufferings to the victims. Undoubtedly it is not only proper but the responsibility of all Tibetans in exile in the free world – individually and collectively, to do our utmost in solidarity for their relief and support.
In the past as and when natural disasters struck in Tibet, individual Tibetans and organisations had organised relief on their own. There had been no collective relief measures for lack of organisation, though the need for such measures were felt by many.
In the current situation, a voluntary organisation called ” 4-14 Yushu Earthquake Charity Committee” has been formed by youths from Kyigudo, now residing in Dharamsala. It plans to reach relief, both human and material, to the region. As the Kashag has noted that if its request could be taken up by all Tibetans in exile, it would be of great benefit for Tibetans in Tibet and in exile for now and later, the Kashag has decided to channelise its support through this organisation.
The Kashag has, therefore, urged all Tibetans in exile – individuals, monasteries, co-operatives, foundations or trusts – in India, Nepal, Bhutan and abroad, to contribute any relief, materially and monetarily, through “4-14 Yushu Earthquake Charity Committee”.
སྐུ་ཉིད་ཀྱིས་ཡུལ་ཤུལ་ས་ཡོམ་གོད་ཆག་ཁྲོད་ཀྱི་སྤུན་ཟླ་ཚོར་ཞལ་འདེབས་འབུལ་འདོད་ན། ༼ ༤་༡༤ ཡུལ་ཤུལ་ས་ཡོམ་གདུང་སེལ་ཚོགས་ཆུང་ ༽ ལ་འབྲེལ་བ་གནང་ཡུལ་གཤམ་གསལ་ལྟར་ཡིན
4-14 Yushu Earthquake Charity Committee:
Email: yushu-4-14@hotmail.com
Mob: +91 9736254543, 9882297858, 9882034798
Bank Account Details.
Name: Gendun Tsephel
ICICI Bank.
Bank Account Number: 050001501154
Swift Code: ICICI/NBB
