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- Am trying to keep my interests from crushing my life. But there too many things that need to be done...
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Sometimes take the time to express my views on Shadow Tibet - Jamyang Norbu's blog
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- Too many and it is going to get worse next year. In Paris, we are already gearing up for March 10th. 2009!
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- Been appointed research director for Contemporary Tibetan Architecture group on Facebook.
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no time to read
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I am the Candle Flame
I am the candle flame for Tibet on high
My country stolen mountains in the sky
Valleys weep your clouds float on by
Freedom taken from me that’s why I cry
Oh mountain trails how I miss your track
My flame burns bright I want you back
Within my soul I yearn my eyes wet
Tibet you were my life ill not forget
Why did you come take my home away?
Even then you didn’t ask I had no say
You stole my heart my spirit all I had
Now here I burn my flame bright but sad
What did I do I ask the question why
For I grow weary to see my land for I die
Here I stand you smile look down on me
Ill fight for you till my death to set you free
So many years i've suffered silent in pain
How I yearn to touch your gentle soil again
To climb to yonder mountain peek above
Once more my spirit to feel of your love
Tony Robin Bulley 17th October 2008 ©
Vigil
Where are you now,with your palms together,
bowing,
your dark red robes
wrapping the wisdom
of a thousand years,
white knife peaks,
and over six thousand
monasteries?
Your home not your home
and yet your home always,
you wander,
you meditate,
you chant and pray;
you teach, you love,
or you stay
and must keep quiet.
Yet prayer flags still blow
in high Tibetan air,
prayer flags still blow
in the deep dark-eyed hearts
of your people.
There are places
the intruders,
the violators
cannot reach–
places alive with
the smiles and tears
of your lost land.
Red robed ones
with your calm eyes
upon the world,
you who pay homage
to the consciousness
in all things,
you who see far beyond
appearances:
you know past time,
you love past duality,
and yet you cry too.
The mountains of Tibet,
the vast plateaus and
green valleys,
the sky lakes and blue rivers,
the sons and daughters
of this sacred land
know and wait for you,
and for their time
within space and beyond
to be free.
© 1996 Layne Russell
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Madeleine Weber
for her design work
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groupe "CHIPS" takes part in musical festival
with a composition " Free Tibet ".
Vote for us here:
http://www.biletomsk.ru/konkurs-1012.html
http://chipsy.org.ru/blog/2009--06-26-15
FREE TIBET!!!
Sundance Film Festival
Tibet in Song
(Documentary)
By PETER DEBRUGE
'Tibet in Song'
A Guge Prods. presentation. (International sales: Ngawang Choephel, New York.) Produced by Yodo Thonden. Executive producer, Anne Corcos. Directed by Ngawang Choephel. Written by Choephel,
In 1995, Ngawang Choephel returned to his native Tibet to document the country's fast-disappearing folk-singing tradition. Instead, he was accused of being a spy and sentenced to 18 years in prison by the Chinese, inspiring international demand for his release. Despite the personal hardship he suffered, Choephel puts the local musicians and their endangered traditions first. But the helmer's own experience strongly amplifies "Tibet in Song's" political subtext, revealing a form of cultural Darwinism in which Chinese control threatens to extinguish centuries of cultural heritage. The cause should make this a popular choice with the PBS set.
Working with the Sundance Institute, Choephel crafts a multimedia essay that, while not always intuitive in structure, begins with a celebration of music's place in Tibetan culture. Seven of Choephel's tapes were confiscated at the time of his arrest, but nine were smuggled out -- from this low-grade footage, he draws a rare first-hand glimpse into customs far outside the country's metropolitan centers.
Music is more than a pastime for these rural Tibetans; it's an integral part of life, setting the rhythm and spirit of every conceivable activity from churning butter to drinking with friends. Via interviews with local poets and teachers, the pic reveals how the occupying Chinese recognized the power of music to Tibetans and have co-opted the lyrics of popular songs for propagandistic ends: "Tibetans and Chinese are one mother's daughter, and the name of that mother is the Republic of China," sings one popular star presented as a Leni Riefenstahl-like sellout.
Through the assimilation of external style, the native music is rendered "meaningless" in Choephel's view (by contrast, he celebrates those Tibetan musicians who have found ways to integrate patriotic or revolutionary ideals within the confines of otherwise unexceptional pop and punk tunes). Without weapons, Choephel reasons, the native Tibetans have only their cultural identity to resist the Chinese, and that tradition is a fragile thing, passed along through the generations, not recorded and distributed the way modern music is.
Here, the film turns tragic, honoring those who were punished for resisting China's Cultural Revolution. Choephel himself falls into this category, as do three women tortured and jailed for refusing to sing the Chinese national anthem. To reinforce their cause, the film recycles familiar scenes of Tibetan oppression, proving far stronger as cultural survey than as agitprop.
Choephel, who narrates the film in English, is ultimately more musicologist than filmmaker, and yet the docu's very existence is something of a miracle. Such a touchy subject will surely spark passionate responses from audiences, who will likely forgive the more uneven aspects of its presentation.
Researcher's call for climbers who have come into contact with Tibetan refugees in the Himalaya http://www.k2climb.net/news.php?id=17965
This was in 2006 - "Hi, my name is Pavle Kozjek, from Slovenia, and I just returned from Cho Oyu. I have some photos from 30.9.," reported an email to Explorersweb. The sender's images showed a nun shot dead before more than a hundred of climbers...."
Then two years later - On August 26, 2008, news arrived that Dejan Miskovic was trapped high up on Muztagh tower, where Slovenian Pavle Kozjek had died.
Pavle's legacy was "climbing with humanity."
I am very keen to know you more,I am really not able to remember you in Paris,anyway its very good that I have contact with you and want to keep contact with you. I am planing to visit Tibet in this year August to look after mine street children and also mine animals which I save last two year ago. Then I will tell them support we are getting from world side,they will sure please to hear it and give the encrouge.
Tashe Delek and pray Geshe Nawang Thapkhe
Welcome, love and light for you!
Hello et Bonjour a Paris! - welcome and thank you for the friend add. Its nice seeing you here among my friends from all over the world. I wish you love, peace and light. May all your dreams come true. Have a wonderful time. A welcome hug from Heimo, your new friend from Austria. I also wish you a Happy New Year! Une tres bonne Nouvelle AnneéBlessings WestLooksEast
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