Category: Humanitarians

In May 2008, Myanmar (located in the Indo-China region) was hit by a sudden cyclone and in the same month, China’s Sichuan Province was struck by an earthquake, both resulting in the deaths of thousands of people. Throughout the past year since the occurrence of the natural disasters, and under the instructions of Master Sheng Yen – founder of Dharma Drum Mountain (“DDM”**) – DDM’s relief team and volunteers endured both, Myanmar’s burning temperatures and waded through Sichuan’s muddy…

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After sixty-two years of enforcing military occupation, with particular reference to the last twenty years, one of the government of India’s worst fears is being realised. It is now faced with non-violent mass protests (commonly known as the Kashmiri intifada) in entire Jammu and Kashmir. This is nourished by people’s memory of years of Indian repression in which tens of thousands have been killed, hundreds of thousands tortured, injured, molested, raped, and disappeared. In the recent past the 27…

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