50 years in Exile

Did anyone out there get this email forward?

Hi Friends,

Hope ya all doing good. I got a call today from the Tibetan Parliamentarian Choekyong Wangchuk la who is also the coordinator of the Tibetan Solidarity Committee, New Delhi, regarding this meeting on May 30, 2008.

The objective of the meeting is to discuss on “Commemoration of 50 years in Exile”

The meeting would have the attendance of:

Hon Kalon Tempa Tsering
All Tibetan Parliamentarians in New Delhi
Major Tibetan NGOs
Tibetan Business and Media Houses

I am asked to inform all the Tibetans working in Indian companies, print and electronice media houses, corporate houses and all about the meeting. Choekyong la really wanted to specially have the opinion of young Tibetans working professionals. Therefore I am sending this mail.

Please be there for the meeting and please let others know about the meeting.

Venue: Bureau of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, 10 Ring Road, Lajpat Nagar IV
Date: May 30, 2008
Time: 5:45 pm

Have a good evening.

Thanks & Regards,
–
Lhakpa Tsering
Empowering the Vision Project
J-50, Jor Bagh Lane
New Delhi-03
Tel #: +91-11-24641250-51
Mobile # +91-9999598296

Unwinking Gaze

There’s a new film out there. It’s called the Unwinking Gaze. I stumbled into a few excerpts and trailers of the film on the internet the other day and have not been able to get it out of my mind just yet – may be I’m even a bit shocked . The filmmaker, Joshua Dugdale, possibly a friend of one of our inaccassible Ko’ngos has been given so much access to His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the runnings of the private office. I haven’t seen the complete film yet but the clips alone makes me feel a bit nervy about what more revelation there are in store in the complete version. Has anyone out there seen the film? What do you think?

Here are the clips

Trailer

Clip 01 – In this clip Lodi Gyari briefs His Holiness the Dalai Lama before leaving on a trip to China. Feeding hope?

Clip 02 – Samdong Rimpoche says we need to scale down our International Activities for things are improving between China and TIbet because of Gyari’s talks

Clip 03 – Samdong Rimpoche tries to give his bit of advice to His Holiness

Clip 04 – His Holiness the DL advices HH Karmapa and HH Ling Rimpoche – This is actually pretty sweet.

The March to Tibet 2008

It seems like the March to Tibet initiated by 5 Tibetan NGOs will soon come to a sad end. The Indian authorities are adamant on stopping the paper-less Tibetans pass through their mountains into Tibet. 

March to Tibet Supply trucks confiscated

For a duration of about 10 days from May 13th to May 22, I spent time with the Marchers in the Almora region of Uttarkhand State, India. I was there taking video footages of the marchers for a documentary film as they were moving closer towards India’s border with Tibet.

Towards the last few days of my time with the Marchers, the police started coming to the marcher’s camp site almost on a daily basis. The police were trying to encourage the 300 odd marchers to return back to their temporary homes in India without them having to use any force.

It is for sure now that the Indian authories will not let the Tibetans move any closer to the border to Tibet. It is sad that in a few days may be the 300 dedicated Tibetans, young and old who are in the march will have to return to their exile lives without a glimpse of the snow mountains of Tibet.

Here’s a short clip from my di-ca that I shot of a young monk marcher named Thaye singing his self composed song for the March to Tibet. This was at their camp site in Seraghat where the police first came with warnings for the marchers.