On the evening of April 4th, 2025, the Dharma Drum Mountain (DDM) Social Welfare and Charity Foundation (herein referred to as “the Foundation”) disaster relief team, led by Ven. Chang Xing (常惺法師), Secretary General of the Foundation, along with two trucks loaded with emergency supplies, arrived in Mandalay, the hardest hit city in Myanmar. Upon arrival, the team set up the DDM disaster relief service center in Mandalay.
On the early morning of April 5th, Mahakonan Monastery and the Chit Myit Tar Foundation (CMTF) in Myanmar arrived at the disaster relief service center to collect a portion of the supplies in order to speedily send them to the hardest hit areas where supplies are relatively scarce and hard to reach. Later, Ven. Chang Xing visited Mahakonan Monastery to send regards from the DDM Sangha to the monastics in Myanmar. In addition, he expressed appreciation for the compassion of the Monastery in accommodating the earthquake-stricken people, in addition to praying for the peace of all the sentient beings in the disaster zone.
According to Ven. Manitalinkara abhivamsa of Mahakonan Monastery, the Monastery has more than 200 monastics, and there are about 500 households in the nearby village. After the earthquake, many people came to take refuge in the vicinity of the Monastery. In the compassionate spirit of Buddhism, the Monastery took in the earthquake-affected people, and is now in urgent need of food supplies such as oil and rice. In addition, in view of the upcoming rainy season in Myanmar, the Monastery also needs other supplies, including clean water supply, waterproof canvas, straw mats, and floor mats.
Zhao De-ren (趙德仁), the CEO of CMTF, reported that when the earthquake struck, he happened to be in Mandalay, witnessing the earthshaking scenes of buildings collapsing, thereby immediately initiating CMTF’s disaster relief. In DDM’s rescue operation this time, the Foundation sent the supplies, together with the disaster relief goods donated by Ming Te Enterprises (明特企業), to the hard-to-reach mountainous areas around Mandalay through local organizations such as CMTF, in order to spread the loving-care of all parties to the people in need.
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