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Crazy Wisdom @ VIFF

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Review from The Province: http://www.theprovince.com/entertainment/VIFF+Waking+love/5533449/story.html The movie “Crazy Wisdom: The Life and Times of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche” is also a potential candidate for entry in the Arclight Documentary Film Festival, if enough of the public “Like” it on the Arclight YouTube page: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzZRiE7C_Ac

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“Crazy Wisdom” Trungpa movie @ Atlantic Film Festival

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Review from the Halifax Chronicle Herald: http://thechronicleherald.ca/ArtsLife/1263838.html

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Vancouver Gala Première – Journey of a Dream: 9.16/17.11

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Journey of a Dream is a heavy metal story of a Tibetan refugee, directed by Shenpenn Khyamsar (who lives in Vancouver).  It is a feature length documentary that will take audiences on an epic, global journey into heavy metal music, exile, Buddhism and Tibetan roots. Here’s a link to the official movie website: http://www.journeyofadreammovie.com/ They are also... Read more »

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Glenn Mullin in Mongolia

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Glenn Mullin is a Canadian Buddhist author, teacher and tour guide living in Mongolia. Here he is in a humorous but fascinating video tour of Erdeni Zuu Monastery in Mongolia: Kidding aside, however, Glenn has been involved in more than 20 Buddhist-inspired development projects in Mongolia and is currently working on 10 more. Here is... Read more »

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A Song for Tibet: NFB online

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Ann Henderson’s 1991 film, A Song for Tibet, is available for free online viewing through the National Film Board of Canada’s website: http://www.nfb.ca/film/a_song_for_tibet/ It lends an important contextual perspective to Québec film-maker Geneviève Brault’s new film, Tibet: Land of the Brave, premiering this month (see our related post just before this one).

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