{"id":729,"date":"2010-07-01T17:11:45","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T00:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philborges.com\/blog\/?p=729"},"modified":"2010-07-01T17:11:45","modified_gmt":"2010-07-02T00:11:45","slug":"new-support-for-the-tibetan-buddhist-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philborges.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/01\/new-support-for-the-tibetan-buddhist-community\/","title":{"rendered":"New Support for the Tibetan Buddhist Community"},"content":{"rendered":"\"\"<\/a>\n

One of the things that amazed me as I traveled through what was formally Kham and Amdo on the Tibetan Plateau was the amount of new construction at many of the Tibetan Monasteries.\u00a0\u00a0 It was not only the amount of new construction but the size and quality of the new monasteries and prayer halls that were being built.\u00a0 I saw multimillion dollar construction projects that left me wondering where the money was coming from.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

One very elaborate Temple that was being built in a very remote area in Qinghai Provence was literally out in the middle of nowhere.\u00a0\u00a0 I was told that the funding came from a wealthy individual in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

In another remote area of Sichuan Provence the world’s largest Stupa (Buddhist Shrine) was being built.\u00a0\u00a0 Half completed with a construction crane on top it looked like a ‘Stupa condominium’.\u00a0\u00a0 I was told it was being financed by ‘someone from the West’.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

I was excited to see this resurgence of energy in the Tibetan monastic community.\u00a0\u00a0However, I met a Tibetan documentary filmmaker who had a different perspective.\u00a0 He felt all this new money coming from the outside was interfering with the historic relationship the monks and monasteries had with the local villages that had historically supported them.\u00a0 He said, ‘It’s just human nature.\u00a0 If you are getting millions of dollars donated are you still willing to bless someone\u2019s children or their house for a few sacks of Tsampa {barley flour}?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the things that amazed me as I traveled through what was formally Kham and Amdo on the Tibetan Plateau was the amount of new construction at many of the Tibetan Monasteries.\u00a0\u00a0 It was not only the amount of new construction but the size and quality of the new monasteries and prayer halls that… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[13,15,33,88,87,597],"class_list":["post-729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-production-notes","tag-buddhism","tag-culture","tag-indigenous","tag-monasteries","tag-spirituality","tag-tibet"],"yoast_head":"\nNew Support for the Tibetan Buddhist Community - Phil Borges<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.philborges.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/01\/new-support-for-the-tibetan-buddhist-community\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New Support for the Tibetan Buddhist Community - Phil Borges\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"One of the things that amazed me as I traveled through what was formally Kham and Amdo on the Tibetan Plateau was the amount of new construction at many of the Tibetan Monasteries.\u00a0\u00a0 It was not only the amount of new construction but the size and quality of the new monasteries and prayer halls that... 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