In the violent earthquake occurring in Ya’an on April 20, nearly 200 people lost their lives and thousands of people lost their homes. People at the Lushan quake-hit areas receive donations from all over the world. Kind Tibetan people also offer great help to the Lushan quake-hit areas in different ways.
On April 20, at 10 am, the first rescue team with 40 rescuers and 3 rescue dogs in 8 trucks from the Chamdo Prefecture in the east of the Tibet Autonomous Region was immediately dispatched to Lushan County, Ya'an City, after the earthquake occurred. Then the second rescue team with 100 rescuers headed to the epicenter. In the meanwhile, experts of the Chamdo Earthquake Administrative Bureau as well as medical workers also went to Ya'an for help. At the same time, some relief supplies were also sent to the quake-stricken area.
On April 23, the 11th Panchen Lama, Bainqen Erdini Qoigyijabu, held a prayer meeting on Tuesday at Yonghegong, or the Lama Temple, in downtown Beijing for victims and survivors of Lushan County's 7.0-magnitude earthquake. The Panchen Lama chanted together with the temple's monks, students from the High-level Tibetan Buddhism College of China, and Tibetan Buddhists and nuns in the main hall of the temple, praying that the affected people's homestead will be well reconstructed.
On April 23, monks of Kumbum Monastery in Xining donated 200,000 yuan(about 32,260 US dollars) for people affected by Lushan earthquake. The monks of Kumbum Monastery also chanted Buddhist sutras to pray for the victims with yak-butter candles on every morning after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Lushan County.
On April 25, monks at Tsurphu Monastery donated money and held a praying ceremony for the victims in the Yaan earthquake.
On April 25, a Tibetan driver Nyima Tamdru from Yushu Tibetan Autonomous prefecture carried 4,000 bottles of mineral water, 2,000 boxes of instant noodles on his truck to the quake-affected Dashan Township, Lushan County in southwest China’s Sichuan Province. It took Nyima Tamdru almost 60 hours to drive from Yushu to Lushan due to the poor road condition affected by the earthquake.
On April 26, monks of Jokhang Temple gathered together in the "Jo Khang" Buddha hall to hold a prayer ceremony for the victims in the Lushan quake. It was seven days after the earthquake. In Chinese funeral custom, the souls of the deceased will go back home and then transmigrate on the seventh day after death. At 18:30 on April 26, monks of Jokhang Temple began chanting sutras to pray for the deceased to have joy and the living to avoid suffering and rebuild homestead. The prayer ceremony lasted for an hour.
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