[nasional_list] [ppiindia] Canadian Buddhist temple sold in aid of Tsunami
- From: "RM Danardono HADINOTO" <rm_danardono@xxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 16:54:46 -0000
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Canadian Buddhist temple sold for $450,000 in aid of tsunami victims
A small Buddhist congregation in Canada sold one of its temples to
raise money for victims of the tsunamis for $450,000. The group
still has its main temple in the suburbs of Vancouver.
Burnaby, Canada - A small Buddhist congregation in this Vancouver
suburb has sold one of its temples to raise money for tsunami
victims.
Abbot Thick Nguyen gave $450,000 - all the proceeds from sale of the
Vietnamese Buddhist Congregation's temple in this Fraser Valley
town - to the Canadian Red Cross on Monday.
The small group still has its main temple here.
"This is phenomenal. It's one of the largest, if not the largest,
donations the Canadian Red Cross has received from anyone in British
Columbia," Red Cross spokeswoman Carmen MacKenzie said.
A Vancouver-area Tibetan Buddhist group agreed to purchase the
temple after media reports about the planned sale.
The subsidiary temple had been on the market for a year to raise
funds for a larger replacement. Thick Nguyen told the congregation
on New Year's Day he had decided to accept the highest offer and
donate the proceeds to tsunami relief.
The contribution is partly to thank the people of the Philippines,
Indonesia and Malaysia for their help in the 1970s, the abbot said
through an interpreter. Three decades ago, he said, these nations
accepted him and others fleeing the Communist government in Vietnam.
"When the abbot made his announcement, a lot of people dropped their
jaws, but after a day went by, everybody began supporting him
wholeheartedly," Dr. Vi Liet Nguyen, a temple board member, told the
Vancouver Sun.
"The idea of giving $500,000 to help survivors of the tsunami is not
unprecedented, but the idea of giving up a whole temple to help
victims touched a lot of people around the world," said Phien
Nguyen, a director of the Vietnamese Buddhist group.
Previous story: Canadian temple offers proceeds to Red Cross
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