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Educational & disaster relief.

Draw the insight from the
acts of generosity of Tzu Chi
Foundation that reflect the
core teaching of Mahayana
Buddhism.
 The Acts of
Generosity of Tzu Chi
Foundation
The famous Tzu Chi Foundation
stands for the Buddhist
Compassion Relief Tzu Chi
Foundation, Republic of China.
Literally "Compassionate Relief", Tzu
Chi is an international humanitarian
organization and a non-
governmental organization (NGO)
with an international network of
volunteers and employees. Tzu Chi
Foundation has been awarded a
special consultative status at the
United Nations Economic and Social
Council.
Tzu Chi Foundation has many
sub-organizations such as the
Tzu Chi International Medical
Association (TIMA) and also
the Tzu Chi Collegiate Youth
Association (Tzu Ching).
Buddhist nun Master Cheng Yen on May
14, 1966 established The Tzu Chi
Foundation as a charity organization
with Buddhist origins in Hualien, Taiwan.
She was inspired by her master and
mentor, the late Venerable Master Yin
Shun (Yìn Shùn dǎoshī) a proponent of
Humanistic Buddhism, who encouraged
her to "work for Buddhism and for all
sentient beings".
The organization thus started
with a motto of "instructing the
rich and saving the poor" as a
group of thirty housewives who
donated a small amount of
money each day to care for needy
families.
Tzu Chi Foundation has grown to
become a significant actor in civil
society, with approximately 10
million members, and chapters in 47
countries.
Tzu Chi has grown to become not
only the largest Buddhist
organization in Taiwan,[7] but also
Taiwan's largest owner of private
land.
The 4 major causes of the Tzu Chi
Foundation are Charity, Medicine,
Education, & Humanity, as emphasized
by the official motto, or concept of
"Four endeavors, eight footprints".
The eight footprints are charity causes,
medical contributions, education
development, humanities, international
disaster assistance, bone-marrow
donation, community volunteerism, and
environmental protection.
Tzu Chi Foundation’s variety of causes
include case management, medical,
educational & disaster relief. The
organization builds & operates many
hospitals and schools, w/ outreach
efforts that range from visits to
nursing homes to providing bone
marrow surgery, as well as offering
items such as washing machines to
struggling single mothers.
The television "Da Ai" network
operates with its own news and
television programming. Chinese
schools have also been established
abroad, such as in Australia and the
United States, which apart from
teaching Chinese and sign language
also guides students in ways of
compassion and community service.
A remarkable segment of funds
raised by Tzu Chi revolves around
environmentally friendly goals in
encouraging the recycling of items
such as water bottles as well as using
reusable items or reusing items to
reduce waste. The foundation
operates over 4,500 recycling
stations throughout Taiwan.
One of the foundation's projects
is the recycling of polyethylene
terephthalate (PET) plastic bottles
for textiles. The project, which
was started in 2006, collects PET
plastic bottles and recycles them
into cloth.
It is claimed that as of September 2008,
some 11,856,000 bottles were used to
make more than 152,000 polyester
blankets, many of which have been
distributed as part of Tzu Chi's disaster
relief programs. Other items made with
the recycled resins include thermal
underwear, T-shirts, hospital bed sheets,
medical gowns and uniforms for Tzu Chi
volunteers.
On November 18, 2012, in the
aftermath of Hurricane Sandy,
the organization announced a
donation of $10 million in the
form of $300 and $600 Visa debit
cards to those affected in the
New York and New Jersey area.
Tzu Chi Foundation is distributed in 47
countries and regions including USA,
Canada, Australia, Thailand, Indonesia,
Malaysia, Singapore, and various
locations in Asia, Europe and Africa.
In the Philippines, the Tzu Chi donated 30
million pesos for the rehabilitation of
Tacloban’s Sto. Nino Church after the
super typhoon Yolanda devastatingly
struck the land.
Tzu Chi missions are a network of
universal love. Tzu Chi works in the
missions of charity, medicine, education
and humanitarian with the spirit of
sincerity, integrity, trust and honesty.
They believe in the equality of all beings
and the Buddha-nature latent in every
person. Through charity, the rich can
obtain blessings and joy while the poor
can receive security and peace.
With love, compassion, joy and selfless
giving, Tzu Chi members strive to bring
about the pure world of Tzu Chi through
helping the needy, giving joy and
eliminating suffering. They invite all
people of goodwill to join in purifying
minds, pacifying the society & working
towards a disaster-free world. They
should respect all life equally. They
provide humanitarian assistance
wherever disasters occur.
 What have you
learned from Tzu Chi
Foundation?