50 Years in Tibet Festival - Panel Discussion 31 01 09

The panel discussion was chaired by Mark Olsen, local Australia Tibet Council representative. From left to right participants were Mark Olsen, Mr Tenzin Atisha (His Holiness the Dalai Lama's Representative in Australia ), Dr. Simon Bradshaw (ATC), Senator Bob Brown (Greens), Geshe Lobsang Jamyang from Chenrezig Institute, Geshe Jamyang's translator and Peter Slipper (Liberal Party, Federal MP).

This video is a small excerpt of the question & answer section.

50 Years in TIBET - Healing Sounds Workshop

a festival celebrating cultural survival
BRISBANE POWERHOUSE, 29th-31st January 2009
Proceeds go to support the Tibetan Children's Village in Dharamsala , India .




"From the day we became refugees, our basic objective was to rise to the very place from where we have fallen down." - H.H. the Dalai Lama




OVERVIEW OF EVENT
50 Years in TIBET is a three-day festival which will engages the senses in a celebration of the unique music and sacred arts of Tibet . An exhibition of Tibetan Thangka paintings will transform the Powerhouse's Turbine Platform into a sacred space of stunning buddhas, bodhisattvas and deities. Workshops will offer participation in Tibetan Singing, Healing Sounds and the art of Sand Mandala. A Discussion Panel with Senator Bob Brown, Mr Tenzin Atisha (His Holiness the Dalai Lama's Representative in Australia ), Geshe Lobsang Jamyang from Chenrezig Institute, Dr. Simon Bradshaw will allow a stimulating exchange on the current situation in Tibet and Ven Geshe Tashi Tsering will give a public talk titled Compassionate Mind: Path to Happiness. Each day will culminate in a beautiful concert featuring Tenzin Choegyal with the Camerata of St John's in Mystical TIBET and '...in the between' brings together four of Australia's finest multi-cultural collaborators Trikaya in a highly original interpretation of `The Tibetan Book of the Dead'.

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• Tibet
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• Australia
• Dalai
• Lama
• China