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Buddhists sell a temple to raise relief funds
Douglas Todd
Vancouver Sun
January 4, 2005
A Buddhist abbot stunned his Burnaby congregation on Saturday when he
announced they would be selling a temple worth more than $500,000 to
give all the proceeds to Asia's tsunami victims.
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The startling act of generosity was just one of many that Buddhist,
Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and aboriginal groups in B.C. and
Canada were coming up with this week to aid the families of those
killed, the injured and homeless across Asia.
The outpouring of compassion from a cross-section of religions marks a
rare moment among the world's often-divided faiths, which are showing a
united front in rushing to the aid of the mostly poor people of south
Asia's shattered coast. It is home to hundreds of millions of
Buddhists, Muslims, Christians and Hindus.
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Speaking through a translator, the abbot said one reason he's making a
large donation to tsunami victims is to say "thank you" to the hard-hit
people of the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia, who, in the 1970s,
took in him and many other members of his congregation after they fled
Communist Vietnam as refugees, or "boat people."
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