DHARAMSHALA, MARCH 25: Tibetan monk living in Wales, UK, has helped a teenage runaway from Germany reunite with his family, reported Wales online. Tibetan monk, Lama Lobsang Topgyal, spotted Tilo Yaye, 18, sleeping outside Cardiff Market two months ago.
Tilo’s mother Christine Schueler told Wales online that she was relieved to finally hear her son was safe. “One day he just ran away. He didn’t tell anybody. I was so relieved when I got a call from Lama Lobsang because he picked up Tilo.
“I couldn’t believe he was travelling to the UK. I thought, ‘how did he get there?’ We were all really worried and are really grateful to Lama Lobsang for taking care of Tilo so much,” Schueler was quoted as saying by the Wales online.
Tilo, who has mental health problems, had fled his home in Lüneburg, Germany.
With no money on him in a country alien to him, Tilo resorted to eating rubbish from city bins and scouring for scraps of food that had been dropped on the street.
Lama Lobsang told Wales online that he saw the boy and knew he was hard up on life. “As a monk, I support people who experience difficult circumstances
“I saw him near the market eating rubbish. It was very sad because he is only young. He had no good clothes.
“I took him some food. We were eating and having a cup of tea. Then I said to him, ‘come to my home’. I helped him buy clothes from charity shops, T-shirts, shoes, everything. He had nothing. Everything he had was lost.
“I gave him food and a place to sleep. He is a good boy but I knew if I left him outside the market he would end up in trouble with drugs or the police. That’s why I invited him to my home.”
Tilo is not the first person Lama has helped off the streets. He offers refuge at his flat to people he meets who are experiencing marriage problems and family fall-outs, Wales online reported.
Lama came to Cardiff seven years ago from Lhasa, Tibet, where he had joined a monastery when he was 15.
“I pray and I help people with these types of problems. That’s my life. Caring for each other is our life,” he told Wales online.
