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"It's not surprising how much was destroyed. But it's really surprising how much has been saved, because of local Tibetan people realizing the importance of their literature, of their cultural heritage. And so, every so often, I hear of another cache of manuscripts being discovered."

-Leonard Van Der Kuijp
Get your tech on ladies! HELLO world of advertising, film, video and TV....when was the last time you hired a woman director, creative director or director of photography??? Women rule!


Can Tech Companies Continue To Innovate With No Women At The Table?
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Only 3.6% of Fortune 500 companies have female CEOs. And at companies like Adobe, Facebook, Zynga, and Pandora, women have been excluded entirely from the boards of directors. Here's the business case for bringing women into leadership roles.
May 10th the TV premiere of Summer Pasture! Lynn True, Nelson Walker and Tsering Perlo's film. Nelson was so helpful to our team and with our documentary. We know his film will be fantastic. Check out all the new photos that Independent Lens | PBS just posted for the U.S. TV premiere on @PBS | Independent Lens. There will be great video extras here (http://video.pbs.org/program/independent-lens/)
on the Independent Lens blog right after the broadcast...
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Watch Independent Lens videos on demand. Stream full episodes online. Airing weekly on PBS, the five-time Emmy Award-winning series Independent Lens is an independent film festival in your living room. Each week we introduce a new documentary film from among the best independent filmmakers working t...
"This is a documentation, without which no tradition can survive for a long period of time. Oral transmission is a way to carry the tradition, but it can never be considered as authentic as the recorded texts, because no one can remember the words exactly as they were told. This is the importance of the text. Without it, no teaching can survive for many generations. It is the only instrument which carries the tradition for thousands of years."

-Samdhong Rinpoche
Update on the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center from the Khyentse Foundation:

http://khyentsefoundation.com/2012/04/the_latest_on_tbrc/


The Latest on TBRC
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The Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center (TBRC), founded in 1999 by Gene Smith to preserve, organize, and disseminate Tibetan literature, is a modern digital library unlike any other.
"Something that makes me really happy and gives me immense satisfaction is that I now carry the entire canon, the kanju and thanju, in my pocket. Wherever I go, I carry it with me and can read it. This is a preservation, dissemination, and giving the texts to the people."

-Samdhung Rinpoche