It turned out he too was a Tzu Chi member, who was vegetarian on Mondays and volunteered for rubbish recycling even after taking office.

他也是慈济的成员，在每周周一吃素，并且即使在当上“次长”后还自愿参加垃圾回收工作。

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I don't know enough about Tzu Chi to endorse them, but their bottles-to-blankets activity seems a grittier form of the recycling done by charity shops in the UK.

我对慈济知之不多不便发表什么。但他们的“瓶子到毯子”的活动更象是英国慈善商店的回收形式。

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But it struck me that Tzu Chi - an organisation I had never heard of until last week - were riding three of the biggest waves of the 21st century.

但是使我吃惊的是象慈济这样一个我上周刚刚听说的组织却顺应了21世纪3个最大的潮流。

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Already Tzu-Chi "Big Love" villages are going up - complete with streets paved in terracotta brick and lined with trees and flowers.

CNN: The Human Touch

Indeed, the government's relief efforts were eclipsed in the popular imagination by the heroic ministrations of such charitable groups as the Buddhist Tzu-Chi foundation.

CNN: Quake Politics

"My motive for founding Tzu-Chi is simple, " says Cheng.

CNN: The Human Touch