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August 17, 2011 6:48 pm GMT
PFS held their first Happy Hour not related to a specific film screening. It was just a chance for their members, attendees and guests to meet, drink and chat (hopefully about movies, but not necessarily), in the hospitably relaxed beauty of Positano Coast. (Truly, one of my favorite restaurants in... Read more...
August 17, 2011 6:41 pm GMT
E. Gene Smith and Dafna Yachin at a special preview event for the documentary film "Digital Dharma: One Man's Mission to Save a Culture."*The event, which took place on Thursday, December 10, 2009, at the new private gallery of Shelley and Donald Rubin, in New York City, included a Sil... Read more...
August 17, 2011 6:30 pm GMT
By Lhendup Gyatso Bhutia | Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA My grandfather is a distant memory. Tall, dark-skinned, a little hunched, he spoke only Tibetan and Nepali. We did not spend much time with each other, but I still remember that every morning he woke me up and took me to our chausham (prayer-roo... Read more...
July 21, 2011 6:37 pm GMT
On June 01, 2011 the Southwest University for Nationalities in Chengdu, China held the opening of the E. Gene Smith Library. The library opening coincided with the university’s 60th Anniversary celebration. Southwest University for Nationalities is located in the Sichuan province and has... Read more...
July 21, 2011 5:01 pm GMT
Wednesday, June 1st, 2011 America's lama 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 Tibet... Read more...
July 21, 2011 4:30 pm GMT
Gene Smith, who died on December 16 aged 74, was long regarded as the most knowledgeable of all Western scholars of Tibet and as the person who almost single-handedly ensured the survival of Tibetan literature. 6:36PM GMT 07 Jan 2011 Smith had travelled to India in 1965 to carry out rese... Read more...
July 21, 2011 3:20 pm GMT
Jan 13th 2011 | from the print edition WHEN he visited the monastery of Menri, in the foothills of the Himalayas, in 2008, Gene Smith took a tiny gift for the abbot. He told him to wear it as an amulet round his neck, to ensure that all was well. Menri Trizan sports it today with his cri... Read more...
July 21, 2011 2:17 pm GMT
By MARGALIT FOXE. Gene Smith, a Utah native who through persistence, ardor and benevolent guile amassed the largest collection of Tibetan books outside Tibet, saving them from isolation and destruction and making them accessible to scholars and Tibetan exiles around the world, died on Dec.... Read more...