Animal Liberation Sanctuary in Nepal

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Animal Liberation Sanctuary in Nepal

hmmmm....where to put this thread....here, or Crossing the Border forum or maybe Charities? I'll start here, and a mod can move it!

Plans are progressing for a sanctuary for rescued animals in Kathmandu, Nepal. The ALS is 13 acres of land in the hills of Kathmandu Valley next to the Kopan Monastery. A project of Lama Zopa Rinpoche, the aim is to provide a safe environment for animals that were to have been killed to eat or for sacrifice, which is still a popular activity in Nepal , and also to give them the opportunity to accumulate merit and the causes for higher rebirth and enlightenment. Much work is still required to build infrastructure and facilities, but over $100,000 US has already been raised.

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Great news!

I hope they manage to get their hands on as much land as possible because this is now the problem of nearly every animal rescue in the world, including in India; the shortage of land, especially near a city. Basically land has become too expensive to be used for animal care, they prefer to sell it to some developer to put some concrete blocks down.

I have friends who are planning to go to Nepal and will urge them to go visit, make a donation and spread the word further.

TDK

Hi YogaGal,

Many thanks for your post and i fully support this much needed animal liberation project founded by Lama Zopa Rinpoche, who has also founded many other charitable projects such as a leprosy clinic in Bodhgaya, schools for the poor in Bodhgaya and Sarnath, sponsering many monks and nuns/monasteries in India, Nepal and Mongolia and many Dharma activities including having a huge statue of the (future) Buddha Maitreya built in Kushinagar,along with social projects, as well as co-founding the Federation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT)which is the umbrella organisation which has many Tibetan Buddhist centres all over the world which run classes and courses etc on Tibetan Buddhism.

If anyone would like more info on the above, or to check Lama Zopa Rinpoche's teaching schedule or to donate online to any of the charities he founded please go to: www.fpmt.org

Kind Regards to All,
TDK

Cameleer

I’m all for helping animals but in realty aren’t most animals raised for consumption and it’s the different cultures that decide which type animals will be consumed?

As for animal sacrificing, when an animal is sacrificed it’s often cleaned up, decorated, paraded down the street with pride and in a fustiest celebration. The people are happy, the animal is happy and then its life is ended.

Most places the poor animal is shipped off packed into cramped quarters with other animals that are very terrified, some even die in shipment. They are unloaded at stockyards where even more of the sick and injured may die. From there they are herded into chutes in single file where they are killed, the ones behind see the ones in front drop dead, , hooks are put into their corpse and it’s lifted up and dragged away, there’s the smell of blood and death in the air all the while this is happing. Do you think the ones behind don’t know what’s happening?

So why is a sacrificed animal seen as such a bad thing? Isn’t what we do animals at slaughterhouses much worse? These other cultures may look at us and think we are so cruel!

If I were an animal, I would much rather be sacrificed!

Sorry, I don’t mean to offend anyone, animals give us so much joy and ask for so little in return! I’m very pleased that people are doing more to help them in every way that they can.