September 20, 2011  from Shirley Blair, Director of SMD Boarding School, Kathmandu, Nepal
Dear friends,
On September 18th, a 6.9 earthquake hit Kathmandu. Although there were some fatalities in the Kathmandu Valley, all of Thrangu Rinpoche’s nuns, monks and lay children were unhurt, and the building sustained no visible damage. At SMD Boarding School, thanks to years of emergency drills, the buildings were evacuated smoothly. The children spent the night in the monsoon rain sleeping on the so...
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