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to support themselves and do not accept offerings making gloves, clothes, baby diapers, necklaces,
in any form from others. Instead, they provide free plastic flowers, etc. Nowadays, in addition to farming
meals and accommodation to all visiting Tzu Chi and making candles, they make and sell handmade
volunteers and staff working at the Jing Si Abode. soap, hydrosols, pottery products, and many food
products, including multigrain drink mix, roasted
nuts and berries, baked rice crust, cocoa powder,
dried vegetables, burdock root powder, and instant
rice, which is often used in disaster relief. These
products are available at Jing Si Books & Café.

Tzu Chi’s hand-
m a d e s oa p s
are made from
natural ingre-
dients through
a non-polluting
process.
(Jing Si Publications)

All year round, Tzu Chi’s monastic practitioners can be seen farming Tzu Chi’s instant T h e co co a
in the fields around the Jing Si Abode. (Zhou Xing-hong)
rice is often used in drink mix is one
disaster relief, as it of the many
10-8 can be conveniently food products
made by the
prepared with cold
water when there is monastic prac-
What do the monastic practitioners at the Jing Si no electricity. titioners at the
Abode do to support themselves? (Jing Si Publications) Jing Si Abode.
(Jing Si Publications)
In the early days, they farmed, sewed baby shoes,
made candles and contracted various kinds of
manual work to support themselves, such as knitting
sweaters, assembling toy parts, woodcarving, and

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