Tibetans’ charity for flood victims
MYSORE: In
a noble gesture, Tibetans in the Mysore region, donated Rs 7.5 lakh for
rehabilitation of flood affected in the northern Karnataka districts,
on Friday. Over 200 nuns and monks attached to the Tibetan
settlement camp at Bylakuppe participated in a special mass prayer
organised at a park near the deputy commissioner’s office. Abbot of Sera
Jey monastery’s highest lama Abbot Lobsang Palden led the prayers.
The organizers said the government and people of India, particularly in
Karnataka, have been kind and generous towards them for decades nd
extended hospitality. “Though it is not possible to repay your
generosity in terms of money, as a token of our love, we are
contributing in a little way,” they said. All the four
monasteries, including Sera and Namdroling, have given a total of Rs 6
lakh and Tibetans working in different organisations have contributed
their one day’s salary, which has accounted to Rs 1.4 lakh, towards the
calamity relief fund. The remaining amount was collected from people as
donations for the cause, they added. Three cheques and an idol of Lord Buddha were presented to deputy commissioner P Manivannan.
a noble gesture, Tibetans in the Mysore region, donated Rs 7.5 lakh for
rehabilitation of flood affected in the northern Karnataka districts,
on Friday. Over 200 nuns and monks attached to the Tibetan
settlement camp at Bylakuppe participated in a special mass prayer
organised at a park near the deputy commissioner’s office. Abbot of Sera
Jey monastery’s highest lama Abbot Lobsang Palden led the prayers.
The organizers said the government and people of India, particularly in
Karnataka, have been kind and generous towards them for decades nd
extended hospitality. “Though it is not possible to repay your
generosity in terms of money, as a token of our love, we are
contributing in a little way,” they said. All the four
monasteries, including Sera and Namdroling, have given a total of Rs 6
lakh and Tibetans working in different organisations have contributed
their one day’s salary, which has accounted to Rs 1.4 lakh, towards the
calamity relief fund. The remaining amount was collected from people as
donations for the cause, they added. Three cheques and an idol of Lord Buddha were presented to deputy commissioner P Manivannan.
(Source: Times of India)
