Quake-damaged sacred Tibetan mound restored in Yushu, China

STORY: Quake-damaged sacred Tibetan mound restored in Yushu, China DATELINE: March 21, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:13 LOCATION: YUSHU, China CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the Gyanak Mani Stone Mound 2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): GE LIWEI, Director of Cultural Heritage Bureau of Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture STORYLINE: Twelve years after a powerful earthquake severely damaged the Gyanak Mani Stone Mound in Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Yushu in northwest China's Qinghai Province, the historic site has got repaired and mended well. Mani stones are stone plates and rocks inscribed with Lamaist mantra prayers or other propitious symbols of Tibetan Buddhism. They are usually placed along roadsides and rivers, or piled up to form mounds or long walls. The Gyanak Mani Stone Mound was the world's largest Mani stone mound before a 7.1-magnitude earthquake on April 14, 2010, reduced the 300-year-old sacred Tibetan mound to a chaotic tangle of rubble and colored sutra streamers. After the earthquake, the Chi