Elder returnee shows Switzerland reality of homeland By CHEN YUEHUA | China Daily | Updated: 2021-05-24 10:22 Share Shagkor Yeshe Palden
Shagkor Yeshe Palden, an 83-year-old living in Lhasa, capital of the Tibet autonomous region, makes WeChat calls every day to his two daughters and grandchildren in Switzerland, where he lived for nearly 30 years.
During the calls, he updates them on what s been going on in Tibet since he returned to China in 1994.
Shagkor Yeshe Palden was once a Living Buddha at the Drepung Monastery, one of the great three Gelug, or Yellow Hat sect, monasteries of Tibetan Buddhism in Lhasa, but his peaceful studies were disrupted in 1959. Aged 20 at the time, Shagkor Yeshe Palden witnessed that year s brutal rebellion against the central government.
“Love thy neighbor” is disastrously difficult to do when your neighbor is driving you insane. Oh, it’s all very good and well to preach about how we should all get along and how communication solves everything… until your next-door neighbor starts digging up the flowers in your garden or sticking nails into people’s car tires at night.
Those are but a taste of the stories that Reddit users shared with redditor Oilpaintroses who asked them to share tales about their ‘crazy’ neighbors. Some of these are a tad quirky. Others could lead to some major arguments in the neighborhood. While a few are simply neighbors from hell and we’re surprised that the redditors living next to them haven’t moved away yet.
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Total number of people vaccinated under the Sisonke Programme almost at 500,000 mark: Health department
As of today, the total number of confirmed #COVID19 cases is 1 635 465 the total number of deaths is 55 802 the total number of recoveries is 1 539 395 and the total number of vaccines administered is 647 983. pic.twitter.com/f8U914yanY Dr Zweli Mkhize (@DrZweliMkhize) May 23, 2021