{"id":3881,"date":"2014-07-26T07:00:25","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T12:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/?p=3881"},"modified":"2014-08-22T15:56:39","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T20:56:39","slug":"tibetan-buddhists-life-liberation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2014\/07\/tibetan-buddhists-life-liberation.html","title":{"rendered":"Tibetan Buddhists &#038; Life Liberation"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"nyt_video_player\" title=\"New York Times Video - Embed Player\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/bcvideo\/1.0\/iframe\/embed.html?videoId=100000003009354&amp;playerType=embed\" width=\"480\" height=\"373\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here\u2019s an interesting <a href='https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/library\/buddhism' target='_blank'>Buddhist<\/a> practice\u00a0reminiscent\u00a0of the Janist reverence for all life, even small bugs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Tibetan Buddhist monks release tiny river shrimp stuck in a dried river bed. The practice is called \u201clife liberation\u201d or \u201cearly release.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Four years ago, an earthquake killed over 3000 people\u00a0in a small Tibetan city called\u00a0Yushu.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/07\/26\/world\/asia\/in-scarred-chinese-tibetan-city-of-yushu-devotion-to-sanctity-of-life-even-a-tiny-river-shrimp.html?partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rsshttp:\/\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">According to this fascinating New York Times story<\/a>, \u00a0this practice of life liberation grew after the earthquake.\u00a0One young Tibetan woman told the New York Times,\u00a0\u201cto save these lives is not only for me and my family but for all the people who died in the earthquake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It\u2019s painstaking work and while local monks says that it has little effect on the number of animals saved, it \u201cserves to remind people about the sanctity of life and can also produce concrete benefits for adherents.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s an interesting Buddhist practice\u00a0reminiscent\u00a0of the Janist reverence for all life, even small bugs. Tibetan Buddhist monks release tiny river shrimp stuck in a dried river bed. The practice is called \u201clife liberation\u201d or \u201cearly release.\u201d Four years ago, an earthquake killed over 3000 people\u00a0in a small Tibetan city called\u00a0Yushu. 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