Counseling Set Up For Quake Traumas...09/29/99

TAICHUNG, Taiwan (AP) - Haunted by images of a neighbor crushed to death under an avalanche of concrete, Lee Mai-hau did not seek the help of a psychiatrist or call an earthquake counseling hotline. Instead, her husband brought her to a simple house with a large incense-burner turned gray after decades of use. Here lived Lin Yu-lin, the neighborhood "shih fu," or master teacher. Lin is among thousands of people within a traditional network mixing motherly care, Buddhism and folkways to ease grief and allay many people's fears that Taiwan is about to be hit again by an earthquake like the one that killed 2,100 people Sept. 21.

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