His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche Allocates NT$3 Million from the Special Donation Account with the Ministry of Health and Welfare to Assist with Reconstruction and Living Costs for Kaohsiung Disaster Victims

Unable to bear seeing sentient beings suffer, His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche has held the Great Indiscriminate Amitabha Puja for Transferring Consciousness and the Grand Memorial Puja for Lord Jigten Sumgön annually in Taiwan since 2005 and 2011, respectively. A total of more than 160,000 people have attended. Upon the perfect completion of each puja, His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche has donated the proceeds to the Social Affairs Administration of the Ministry of the Interior (which has now been moved into the Ministry of Health and Welfare) to serve as social welfare charity to help people in need. Since 2005, Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche has donated a total of more than NT$58,830,000. Over the years, the Ministry of the Interior has allocated money from this fund on multiple occasions to help disaster victims in Taiwan who were in urgent need of assistance.

On August 1st of this year (2014), an enormous accidental gas explosion occurred in the city of Kaohsiung, causing more than 340 casualties and more property damage than can easily be estimated. Homes were destroyed and family members were lost. Suddenly left without any support, people were plunged into a state of extreme fear and suffering. Feeling compassion for all sentient beings, His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche immediately sent a letter to the Ministry of Health and Welfare requesting that NT$3 million be allocated from the account to which the guru has donated over the years, to help pay for living and reconstruction costs for the disaster victims so that they could rebuild their houses and get their lives back in order as quickly as possible. On August 19th, the Ministry of Health and Welfare remitted said funds from Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche’s donations account to the “Social Affairs Bureau of Kaohsiung City Government’s Social Assistance Payment Account,” and as per Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche’s instructions, specified that those funds were to be used toward reconstruction and living expenses for the Kaohsiung gas explosion disaster victims.

His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche has propagated Buddhism in Taiwan for many years in an effort to benefit all sentient beings, resolve their suffering and bring them happiness in accordance with their various causal conditions, and give them spiritual and material assistance. The guru hopes that all sentient beings in the Six Realms can obtain help from the Dharma so that they could achieve eternal and flawless bliss.

Updated on August 27, 2014