Ten Thousand Buddhas Column: What View Does the Dharma Master Take of the Prophecy That There Will Be a Great Disaster That Will Extinguish the Human Race at the Turn of the Century?

万佛信箱：请问法师对本世纪末、下世纪初，人类将有毁灭性大灾难的预言有何看法？

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The 2008 Olympics were a symbol of China’s emergence as a great power. The Commonwealth ones seem to be heading for disaster.

北京奥运会的举办，是中国作为强国崛起的标志，而新德里的英联邦运动会似乎是变成了灾难。

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The outpouring of emergency aid will be a great help to the ravaged countries, but disaster relief is an inadequate, expensive substitute for more timely improvements to their infrastructures.

紧急援助的涌入将来给受灾的国家带来很大的帮助。然而，比起更加及时地改进它们的基础设施来，仅仅救灾不够的，也是代价高昂的。

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The play, the first event of this kind to be staged in a temporary camp since the disaster, revisits the great myths of Haitian culture, with special reference to Voodoo.

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That, most say, would be a disaster, the killing or rather the acceptance of the death of one of the great cultures of the US and the world.

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