To raise money for the Anymachen Tibetan Culture Center in Zhandetan, Qinghai, China, Rinpoche Tserin Lhagyal traveled across China seeking donations, and received them largely from Han Chinese, who make up 80 percent of his 1,000 contributors. Many donors say they view Tibetan Buddhism as an antidote to the materialism and greed that have flourished alongside China’s breakneck development.
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| — | Dan Levin, “Teaching Tibetan Ways, a School in China is an Unlikely Wonder,” New York Times, 28 January 2012, page A8. Modified to make sense as a quote. |
