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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...
August 19, 2011 2:04 pm GMT
The following points derived from Gene Smith’s Among Tibetan Texts by Kurtis Schaeffer were shared today at Columbia University’s panel discussion on the future of Tibetan studies after Gene Smith.Know the breadth and depth of Tibetan historyRead single works for depthRead collected work... Read more...
August 19, 2011 1:56 pm GMT
Lawrence Pintak profiles Gene Smith, the man from Ogden, Utah who single-handedly spearheaded the preservation of thousands of Tibetan texts after the Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1959. Smith’s mission continues.He has spent his life wrapped in the dharma.For the past 40 years, Gene Smith has... Read more...
August 17, 2011 7:58 pm GMT
Posted by Robert Beer on 2/21/2011 1:14:32 PMGene Smith was a unique, kind and unforgettable human being who did so much in his life to help preserve and disseminate the vast heritage of Tibetan texts that began to come out of Tibet after the Chinese invasion of the 50’s. I only met Gene three... Read more...
August 17, 2011 7:54 pm GMT
Wednesday, June 1st, 2011 There’s a celebration going on today in China, at the Southwest University for Nationalities in Chengdu. The library has just acquired a “significant portion of the personal collection of E. Gene Smith,” the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center (TBR... Read more...
August 17, 2011 7:47 pm GMT
On December 16, 2010 E. Gene Smith, founder of the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center passed away. Gene was universally known among both Western born and Tibetan scholars as the man responsible for saving the vast treasury of Tibetan Literature. His digital library is the most comprehensive in the wor... Read more...