In the pages of the U.K.’s Guardian newspaper, Václav Havel, Prince Hassan Bin Talal, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Vartan Gregorian and Yohei Sasakawa call on China to overturn their decision to execute two more Tibetan protesters and open its courts to international scrutiny. Take a look.
This is hardly a worthy entry in the ongoing series about Buddhism and film here at the blog, but I’ve got more than one story to report, so…
First, Paste Magazine offers an introduction to films about Tibet in a little feature about the DVD release of Bhutanese writer/director (and Buddhist monk) Neten Chokling Rinpoche’s film Milarepa. Take a look.
Also, if you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, don’t miss UC-Berkeley’s Thinking About Not Thinking: Buddhism, Meditation, and Film, a film series with Buddhologist Robert Sharf that will “use film to explore some seminal and controversial issues in Buddhism and Buddhist meditation theory, and at the same time use Buddhist views of meditation and meditative experience to reflect on film.”
