300 women have refused to be flown by plane and chopper out of an earthquake ravaged Nepal. Clearly, they aren't ordinary women - they are nuns of the Ladakh-based Drupka order.
buddistdoor
Or, as the world calls them, 'Kung-Fu Nuns'. These women have grown up learning kung fu and meditation their entire life from a Kathmandu nunnery, and now they're planning to stay back and use their strength to help earthquake victims here.
buddhistdoor
In fact, their leader, the 12th Gyalwang Drukpa expected them to be shaken, like the rest of Nepal. He told the Daily Mail: “I was expecting the nuns over there to be under trauma. Many people were saying that they should be evacuated but they decided to stay back and help others."
balticreview
"It’s raining continuously, earthquakes are repeatedly happening, the walls are falling and none of them can go back to their rooms so they have had to camp in the garden.
huffpost
Despite all these problems, they are willing to help.”
simondetreywhite
According to him, these disasters show nature’s unhappiness with mankind's greed.: “From a spiritual point of view, we should not blame God but, instead, work with nature and respect it. Some people say that the earth is a mother. I don’t necessarily say that one should worship.
bccl
Respect, instead, means not being destructive. Scientists also say that,” he says.
What he says is correct - Nepal has been built like a dangerous maze of poorly constructed buildings without concern for earthquakes.
http://www.indiatimes.com/news/world/nepals-kung-fu-nuns-have-refused-to-be-evacuated-theyre-staying-back-to-help-victims-232288.html
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