Rebuilding starts for monasteries
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July 12, 2010, Monday
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THE Chinese government on Saturday started a massive multi-million-dollar project to restore 87 monasteries damaged in a 7.1-magnitude earthquake that shook a predominantly Tibetan area in northwest China in April.
Monks and officials gathered at the new site of Trangu Monastery in Yushu, Qinghai Province, for a brief ground-breaking ceremony.
Monks from the 700-year-old monastery, whose former buildings collapsed in the quake, held a prayer service.
They chanted sutras and turned prayer wheels to mark the start of the rebuilding.
More than 2,200 people were killed after the 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck Yushu. The entire town of Gyegu, the seat of Yushu prefectural government, was flattened, leaving more than 100,000 residents homeless.
Three best known monasteries damaged in the Yushu quake were Trangu, Gyegu and Renyak.
The repair of Gyegu Monastery also started on Saturday.
Monks and officials gathered at the new site of Trangu Monastery in Yushu, Qinghai Province, for a brief ground-breaking ceremony.
Monks from the 700-year-old monastery, whose former buildings collapsed in the quake, held a prayer service.
They chanted sutras and turned prayer wheels to mark the start of the rebuilding.
More than 2,200 people were killed after the 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck Yushu. The entire town of Gyegu, the seat of Yushu prefectural government, was flattened, leaving more than 100,000 residents homeless.
Three best known monasteries damaged in the Yushu quake were Trangu, Gyegu and Renyak.
The repair of Gyegu Monastery also started on Saturday.
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