Tibetan Film Festival, March 5-11
Showcase of Award Winning International Films from India, Nepal, France and England. The Tibetan American Foundation of Minnesota is sponsoring the third Tibetan Film Festival, March 5-11, 2004.
Buddhist temple hopes to draw more Tibetans
On a recent February morning, a celebration of the Tibetan New Year began in a bright yellow house on Magoun Avenue. Red-robed Tibetan Buddhist monks tended to last-minute tasks, as other people arrived and sat on cushions near
Awakenings
Jeffrey Paine opens his riveting narrative about Tibetan Buddhism’s emergence in the West with an account of Thomas Merton’s brief but prophetic encounter with “the dharma.”
Devotees throng Rewalsar
Thousands of Buddhist pilgrims from home and abroad have converged on the banks of the Rewalsar lake to take part in the two-day Tsechu Fair — the Buddhist Kumbh beginning from tomorrow — which is being celebrated after 12 years.