This note is from Hong Shih Shih, a Taiwanese nun who lives at Ling Jiou Mt.
Buddhist monastery and works for the Museum of World Religion in Taipei. I
have met her several times and visited the monastery in Taiwan. This is a
way to donate directly to the people of Burma through a Buddhist group.
(You will also appreciate her charming English.)
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Hogen Bays, Co-Abbot
Great Vow Zen Monastery
P.O. Box 188
Clatskanie, Oregon
97016
503-728-0654
From: Hong-Chih [mailto:mwr3@ms53.hinet.net
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 8:12 AM
Subject: Burma disaster relief
Dear Friend,
Your name is in my contact list; this is a letter about the Relief for Burma
disaster, if you are not interested, please kindly ignore this letter and I
apology for bothering you.
Burma, one of the poorest countries in the world, was attacked by a super
size tropical cyclone on May 2. The death toll could reach up to 60,000,
and million become homeless.
While USA has been rejected by the Burma government and a lot of other
international aids and rescue experts are waiting to enter the country,
Dharma Master Hsin Tao, founder of the Museum of World religions, has
brought 5 rescue experts and two containers of food, water and medicines
(valued $100,000) entered Burma on 8 May with a special permission from the
Government as the appointed Burma disaster relief center in Taiwan.
We will also donate $100,000 cash to the ministry of social welfare and work
together with (monitoring) them on resettlement projects. The relief will
continue and become a part of our long-term plan for Burma.
Ling Jiou Mt. Buddhist Society has been working in Burma for more than 5
years providing all kinds of humanitarian assistance, under the name "Global
Family for Love and Peace". Our projects incl. scholarship for poor
students; child care center in poor countryside for children under 5; a big
farm on the board for the poor and a future orphanage; a meditation center
outside of Shwedgaon/the Golden Stupa; ancient ruins repairing and
reconstruction, further education assistance for monks and young girls, and
free coffin for dead street people. So far we have helped more than 800
students and orphans. We have 5 child care centers saved more than 250
little kids from the risk of dieing during the Monsoon period. (We don't
know how many of our kids have been affected, and this worries us a lot)
We would like to ask you to give a hand to this poor and simple Buddhist
country. Cash or material donation, both are needed. With your kind
donation, we can expand our works to house settlement and continue all the
educational programs.
We apology that there is no English website introducing our Burma project,
you will find one GFLP describes only our another major peace work: the
interfaith dialogues. All information is in Chinese in Ling Jiou Mountain
Buddhist Society website:
http://www.ljm.org.tw/content/home/home05a.asp?js=15&C1b_sn=137
Genuine humanitarian relief requires no conditions. Bush requested to send
a group of "special experts" to assess the situation before he grants the
$250,000 aid. This condition offends and worries the military government so
much that they rather to refuse American and scarify the disaster victims.
Condemn brings more condemn, negative attracts negative, according to the
law of attraction. Mother Teresa never condemn the Indian Cast system in a
comfortable room, she just simple walked directly into the people, the low,
the dirty, and the sick. Follow Mother Teresa's spirit, we work in Burma
quietly for years, and we should continue. You are welcome to join us; we
need long-term partners and supports for a country like this.
Those who are willing to help us, please fill up the attached donation form,
and fax it back to me. If any one wants to donate materials through our
access, please contact me with details.
Thank you for reading this letter and with best regards,
Hong Chih Shih
International Affairs,
The museum of world religions
Tel: 886-2-82316666# 820
Fax: 886-2-82316868
Address: 6F, No. 236, Sec. 1 Jungshan Rd, Youngho City, Taipei County 234,
Taiwan
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