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February 17, 2014 9:11 pm GMT
CHENGDU, China — Decades ago, the thousands of Tibetan-language books now ensconced in a lavishly decorated library in southwest China might have ended up in a raging bonfire. During the tumultuous decade of the Cultural Revolution, which ended in 1976, Red Guard zealots destroyed anything dee... Read more...
October 21, 2013 6:47 pm GMT
Monk boxing?Recently, on a visit to the office of Lunchbox Communications, home of Digital Dharma Director, Dafna Yachin, I had the great pleasure of meeting her energetic staff who were hard at work on her newest documentary!From the life of Gene Smith – whom many describe as the most unlikel... Read more...
October 10, 2013 2:28 pm GMT
A locally produced documentary is exposing the public to a 50-year quest to save the literary history of a disappearing culture and to preserve early lessons of mankind's consciousness. Digital Dharma, which two weeks ago had its Philadelphia premiere screening at the Kimmel Center, tells t... Read more...
July 3, 2013 9:36 pm GMT
Watch Digital Dharma online now through July 8th withBuddhaFest through Tricycle: The Buddhist Review Online Film Festival. Digital Dharma uncovers E. Gene Smith's 50-year journey with renowned scholars, lamas and laypeople, as they struggle to find, preserve, and digitize more than 20... Read more...
April 11, 2013 2:54 pm GMT
SPIRITS IN THE CYBER WORLDApril 07, 2013, 12:00 AM | posted by Lara Klaber in FilmmakersFor Dafna Yachin, meeting E. Gene Smith was a life-changing moment.“I was told that Gene was a Tibetologist who had digitized thousands of 1,500-year-old Tibetan bats, though I was not s... Read more...
March 1, 2013 3:08 pm GMT
Philly filmmaker’s 'Digital Dharma' heads for Tel Aviv By Neal DhandFilm Critic The title of the new documentary by Philadelphia filmmaker and producer Dafna Yachin might sound like an oxymoron: “Digital Dharma.” Combining the technology age with an an... Read more...
March 1, 2013 3:06 pm GMT
A 50-Year Savings PlanFEBRUARY 27, 2013By: Greg Salisbury The fourth annual EPOS International Art Film Festival in Tel Aviv was showcasing a film this week made by two Jews about a Mormon dedicated to preserving Buddhist texts.
The documentary, Digital Dharma, which was directed by Mana... Read more...
February 18, 2013 4:34 pm GMT
BIFF 2013: Find, save, copy, paste'Digital Dharma' tells of one scholar’s work to save thousands of Tibetan textsBy Elizabeth Miller Photo courtesy of Lunchbox CommunicationsImagine a trove of knowledge as vast and extensive as the famous Library of Alexandria, heralded for... Read more...
November 8, 2012 5:05 pm GMT
E. Gene Smith was an amazing human being. On that, all who knew him can agree, from the high lamas and scholars who were inspired by his encyclopedic knowledge to the most humble, exiled Tibetans who were moved by his passion for literary preservation. As a non-Buddhist, I was honored th... Read more...
August 30, 2012 3:46 pm GMT
Tibet, north and east of the Himalayan Mountains is the highest region on earth. The county, its history, and its culture is the focus of the documentary, Digital Dharma: One Man's Mission to Save a Culture.The film captures the life and journey of E. Gene Smith, an unlikely hero who worke... Read more...