Yushu Earthquake Relief
I have a good friend, a young Tibetan man, who has traveled to Jyekundu (Jiegu) – the center of the Yushu earthquake devastation – to distribute relief aid. He is also a fair hand with a camera. His...
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Now that the media have their story in Jyekundu (aka Jiegu and Gyegu), the county seat of Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (TAR), the real work of material relief, emotional support and...
View ArticleYushu Earthquake: Monks and Reconstruction
Melissa Chan, Al Jazeera’s China correspondent, has written about the gathering of the monks in Jiegu (aka Gyegu, Jyekundu), the county seat of the Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) which is the...
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I have a television, but it stopped working a year ago, and it had probably stopped working long before that. I wouldn’t have known since I’d rarely turned it on. Discovering that it was broken was a...
View ArticleMore Photos from Yushu
Below find several photos from my good friend, Karamibu, who has traveled back to Jiegu (Gyegu, Jyekundu). Click on the photos for a larger version. Jiegu (Gyegu, Jyekundu) I would encourage you to...
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