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FEATURE DOCUMENTARY: KEEPING TIBETAN CULTURE ALIVE IN L.A.
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A community center in Culver City, Los Angeles, becomes the site of a Sunday class for Tibetan-American children, organized
by the Tibetan Association of Southern California. Here they learn prayers, Tibetan history, traditional song and dance, and
Tibetan language. Hear Tibetan kids from 8 to 12 years of age talk about the challenges of learning Tibetan and what it's
like to be a minority among minorities where nobody guesses your nationality right the first time.
FROM THE NEWSDESK:
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| Runngye Adak who inspired the Lithang protest. Click on image to join the URGENT ACTION CAMPAIGN |
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| Tibet supporters make themselves heard at Dodger Stadium in the one-year run-up to the 2008 Olympics |
Dalai Lama calls on Tibetans to end hunger strike (Phayul)
Thousands of Tibetans March in Indian Capital (AP)
China purges government of ethnic Tibetans in crackdown on Dalai Lama loyalists (AP)
China tells living buddhas to obtain permission before they reincarnate (The Times, UK)
Tibetans turn festival into mute protest against China (NY Times)
New images confirm dispersal of Tibetans by armed police after Lithang protest (ICT)
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| They were eventually allowed in to see the ballgame |
| The banner 'One World, One Dream, Free Tibet |
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| in English & Chinese on China's Great Wall stayed up for 2 hours. WATCH VIDEO HERE |
China frees foreign pro-Tibet activists (CBC)
AN INTERVIEW WITH PROFESSOR ROBERT THURMAN
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In 1962, ROBERT THURMAN became the first American to become ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist monk. He gave up his robes several
years later for a life in academia that he desdribes as "America's equivalent to monasticism". He has since married
and had children, one of whom is the actress Uma Thurman. Robert Thurman has been voted one of the top 25 most influential
Americans by Time Magazine. He is currently the Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies in the Department
of Religion at Columbia University, President of the Tibet House U.S., a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation
and promotion of Tibetan civilization, and President of the American Institute of Buddhist Studies. He is the author of numerous
books on Buddhism including 'Inner Revolution: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Real Happiness'.
Tibet House New York
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THE POETRY & POLITICS OF TIBETAN MUSIC
Tibetan musician and vocalist TECHUNG takes us on a journey through Tibetan music, from traditional ballads and the gregarious
“beer drinking songs”to contemporary freedom songs born from occupation. Techung was born in exile in India and
trained from an early age with the Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts. In 1989, after emigrating to the U.S., he co-founded
the San Francisco-based Chaksampa Tibetan Dance and Opera Company. Whether performing in traditional or contemporary styles,
Techung's dual goals are to revive Tibetan music in the Tibetan community and to expose the rich performing cultural tradition
of his homeland to the world community.
REFLECTIONS ON THE DALAI LAMA'S TEACHINGS
For three days in September 2006 Pasadena might well have been called Little Tibet; with Buddhist teachings by the Dalai Lama,
a Tibetan bazaar offering traditional Tibetan food and dance performance, and crosswalks suddenly made brighter from hundreds
of maroon-robed monks and nuns. Producer, JULIE ADLER, was on the scene to find out people's impressions of the teachings...you
may be surprised by what you hear, and by who says it.
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