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March 28, 2012 6:44 pm GMT
The words of the Buddha are the very heart of an ancient tradition that belongs to all of humanity, and merits preservation in that light. While initial support for 84000 has come from within the Buddhist community, this is far more than a Buddhist project. It is an effort to prevent an entire libra... Read more...
March 28, 2012 6:31 pm GMT
2012 is an exciting year. We have received a generous matching grant from an inspired donor — our Sky Treasures Matching Grant. Sky Treasure is a translation of the Tibetan word, ནམ་མཁཨའ་མཛོད།, nam mkha’ mdzod — signifying inexhaustible treasure. With over sixteen... Read more...
March 8, 2012 10:30 pm GMT
Posted by Emma Varvaloucas on 23 Feb 2012 Today's Tricycle Talk is with Dafna Yachin, the producer, writer, and director of Digital Dharma, a documentary chronicling the Tibetan cultural preservation efforts of E. Gene Smith. Smith was no James Bond or Jason Bourne, but his missio... Read more...
March 8, 2012 10:24 pm GMT
I had the great pleasure of interviewing Dafna Yachin who is the Chief Communications Officer with Lunchbox Communication. She is here to promote their new movie titled, "Digital Dharma" a little bio is below this paragraph. After the Interview, I have attached the Trailer for this f... Read more...
March 8, 2012 3:25 pm GMT
"Digital Dharma," a new documentary that got its "special sneak preview" at the 18th annual Sedona Film Festival in Sedona, Ariz., is about a Mormon from Utah who gave a half-century of his life to save the ancient texts of an endangered culture on the other side of the world.... Read more...
February 15, 2012 11:45 pm GMT
Philadelphia Filmmaker’s Documentary Tells the Story of Saving a Culture February 15, 2012 (Philadelphia, PA and Sedona, AZ)– When the 18th annual Sedona International Film Festival opens next week, the audience will get a sneak peek at Philadelphia director Dafna Yachin’s feature-... Read more...
January 11, 2012 11:03 pm GMT
Here's your daily dose of an indie film in progress; at the end of the week, you'll have the chance to vote for your favorite.In the meantime: Is this a movie you’d want to see? Tell us in the comments. "Digital Dharma" Tweetable Logline:Amid political turmoil... Read more...
December 20, 2011 10:20 pm GMT
Staff for the documentary, Digital Dharma, contacted me the other day about their upcoming film. Coincidentally, a day later, Kickstarter let me know about this film because it also has an ongoing kickstarter drive going to raise money to finish the film. Between the two of these, I thought it espec... Read more...
December 12, 2011 10:19 pm GMT
On December 15, 2011, noting the first anniversary of the passing of legendary Tibetologist E. Gene Smith, the Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation will celebrate his life and host a private screening of the documentary about Smith, Digital Dharma — an epic story of cultural rescue, and how one... Read more...
August 19, 2011 2:05 pm GMT
During a recent visit to the offices of TBRC, I was fortunate enough to glimpse Gene Smith‘s famous ‘notebooks’, the painstakingly typewritten transcripts of texts and interviews, with their own particular system of colour coding, capitalization, underlining and marginalia. Many pa... Read more...