THI event

Poetry as Resistance | Reading and Conversation with Bhuchung D. Sonam - Sunday Oct 27

Anonymous — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 22:29:19 +0000

Poetry as Resistance | Reading and Conversation with Bhuchung D. Sonam - Sunday Oct 27 Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 10/09/2024 - 16:29

Date: Sunday, October 27 at 6 pm

Location: The Trident Cafe, Pearl Street, Boulder

The Tibet Himalaya Initiative invites you to a special evening with poet, writer, and publisher Bhuchung D. Sonam. He will be reading from his new book The Other Side of Blue Skies and join CU Professor Carole McGranahan in a conversation about writing as resistance in the Tibetan exile community.

About the Poet:

Bhuchung D. Sonam is an exile Tibetan poet, writer, translator and publisher. His books include Songs from Dewachen and Yak Horns: Notes on Contemporary Tibetan Writing, Music and Film & Politics. He has edited Muses in Exile: An Anthology of Tibetan Poetry, and has compiled and translated Burning the Sun’s Braids: New Poetry from Tibet. He is a founding member and editor of TibetWrites and its imprint Blackneck Books, which promotes and publishes the creative works of Tibetans. His writings are published in the Washington Post, Asahi Weekly, Journal of Indian Literature, HIMAL Southasian and Hindustan Times among others. He was recently the subject of a New York Times article – “An Exiled Publisher Creates a ‘Brotherhood Across Tibetans’.”

About the Event:

This event is free and open to the public. For information about the event, please contact Professor Carole McGranahan carole.mcgranahan@colorado.edu

This event is sponsored and hosted by the Tibet Himalaya Initiative in conjunction with the Trident Bookstore and Cafe, and with thanks to our co-sponsors the CU Center for Asian Studies and Department of Anthropology.

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Ningwasum Film and Indigenous Climate Futurism Event - Monday Oct 14

Anonymous — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 03:08:31 +0000

Ningwasum Film and Indigenous Climate Futurism Event - Monday Oct 14 Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 10/08/2024 - 21:08

A panel discussion on Indigenous climate futures with filmmaker Subash Thebe Limbu, Phurwa Gurung (CU Geography), Clint Carroll (CU Ethnic Studies), Jennifer Fluri (CU Geography), and Shae Frydenlund (CU Center for Asian Studies), will take place on Zoom on Monday, October 14th at 9:30am. The Q&A session will follow the panel discussion.

Event: Ningwasum Film and Indigenous Climate Futurism

Date: Oct 14, 2024, at 9:30am on Zoom

Zoom link for Panel Discussion:

https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/ 4474063892

If you are interested in watching the film Ningwasum, please email shae.frydenlund@colorado.edu

About the Film

Directed by Subash Thebe Limbu, Ningwasum follows two time travellers – Miksam and Mingsoma – to a futuristic Himalayas where indigenous sovereignty and technology meet a new climate reality. The film weaves together Yakthung folk tales, music, and language to foreground indigenous perspectives and challenge typical portrayals of indigenous backwardness.

This event is sponsored by the Center for Asian Studies, and the Tibet Himalaya Initiatives.

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Tibetan literature at Jaipur Literature Festival in Boulder on September 23rd

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 03:30:55 +0000

Tibetan literature at Jaipur Literature Festival in Boulder on September 23rd Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 09/20/2023 - 21:30

The Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) comes to town this weekend, September 21–23, 2023. There are two Tibet-related panels we would like to invite you to attend. Register here: https://jlflitfest.org/colorado

The Tibet Himalaya Initiative (THI) is sponsoring the session with Tsering Yangzom Lama, whose debut novel We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies has received much critical acclaim, in conversation with CU’s own Dawa Lokyitsang and Natalie Avalos.

And THI faculty Holly Gayley will be in conversation with Andrew Quintman about the lives of Yeshe Tsogyal and Milarepa and their ongoing influence and presence in ritual, pilgrimage, visual arts and more.

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Political Leader of an Exile Government: An Evening with Lobsang Sangay at 7pm on April 11th

Anonymous — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 23:03:45 +0000

Political Leader of an Exile Government: An Evening with Lobsang Sangay at 7pm on April 11th Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 03/22/2023 - 17:03

In 2011, the Dalai Lama stepped down as political leader of the Tibetan exile government. For the first time ever, the Tibetan community democratically elected a new political leader: Mr. Lobsang Sangay. He served two terms as Sikyong (President) from 2011-2021. As Sikyong, Mr. Sangay traveled the world on behalf of the exile government and the Dalai Lama. In his talk at CU, he shares these experiences, asking what makes a good leader.

Political Leader of an Exile Government: An Evening with Lobsang Sangay

Old Main Chapel

Tuesday, April 11

7:00 pm

Sponsored by the Tibet Himalaya Initiative together with the Center for Asian Studies and Department of Anthropology

Free and Open to the Public

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Donagh Coleman's Tukdam Film Screening at CU Boulder

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 16:00:19 +0000

Donagh Coleman's Tukdam Film Screening at CU Boulder Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 03/13/2023 - 10:00

On Thursday March 9, the Tibet Himalaya Initiative held a film screening of Donagh Coleman’s new film, Tukdam: Between Worlds, in the Chancellor’s auditorium. The event, which was co-sponsored by the Rene Crown Wellness Institute, was very successful, with roughly 150 people in attendance. The audience included not only CU undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff from a variety of departments and centers, but also members of the Tibetan community, Naropa University, and the broader Boulder community. Following the reception and the 91-minute film screening, Donagh held a Q&A with the audience for about 40 minutes.

The documentary (2022, Journeyman Pictures) explores the phenomenon of tukdam, in which advanced Tibetan Buddhist meditators display unusual characteristics, such as remaining upright in a meditative posture, warmth around the heart area, and not showing signs of decomposition, after clinical death. According to the Tibetan understanding the practitioner’s consciousness remains in a state of awareness in deep meditation. The documentary explores both Tibetan analyses of tukdam and follows the work of a team of neuroscientists trying to measure and understand it from a scientific perspective.

The film screening was part of a two day visit to CU Boulder by Donagh Coleman, who has also directed several other documentaries about the Tibetan cultural world, including A Gesar Bard’s Tale (2013), shot in Jyekundo, about the story of a young nomad who became a bard able to recite the Epic of Gesar, the world’s longest and last living epic, and Stone Pastures (2008), about nomads living in the Changthang of Ladakh, India, who rear pashmina goats. In addition to the screening, Donagh also participated in the Rene Crown Wellness Institute’s Mindful Campus speaker series on the topic of “a good death,” met with Tibet & Himalaya Initiative graduate students, and visited a graduate documentary lab.

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Come Celebrate the Tibetan New Year (Losar) on February 24th!

Anonymous — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 18:08:35 +0000

Come Celebrate the Tibetan New Year (Losar) on February 24th! Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 02/14/2023 - 11:08

ལོ་སར་བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས་ཞུ།།

You are cordially invited to celebrate the new year of the water rabbit in the 2150th year of the Tibetan calender.

Date: February 24th, 2023

Location: ALTEC, Hellems Room 159

Time: 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Light snacks and entertainment provided.

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"Save the date! Thursday March 9, 6pm. Join us for a film screening and Q&A with film-maker and anthropologist Donagh Coleman."

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 01:27:28 +0000

"Save the date! Thursday March 9, 6pm. Join us for a film screening and Q&A with film-maker and anthropologist Donagh Coleman." Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 01/23/2023 - 18:27

Tukdam: Between Worlds, is a brand new feature documentary that explores the phenomenon of tukdam, where deceased mediators show no signs of death for days and weeks.

Synopsis

We tend to think of death as something clear-cut, and that medical science has it neatly figured out. This feature documentary explodes such assumptions through its exploration of a phenomenon that blurs life and death to an unprecedented degree. In what Tibetan Buddhists call tukdam, advanced meditators die in a consciously controlled manner in meditation. Though dead according to our biomedical standards, they often stay sitting upright in meditation posture; remarkably, their bodies remain fresh and lifelike, without signs of decay for days, sometimes weeks after clinical death. The film follows the first ever scientific research into tukdam by neuroscientist Richard Davidson’s team, juxtaposed with intimate death stories of tukdam meditators and Tibetan understandings of the death process – which include ideas about consciousness and the mind-body connection that are very different to those of mainstream science. Unfolding in cinematic dialogue between scientific and Tibetan perspectives, the film unravels our certainties about life and death, and shows how differently death can be construed in different cultural contexts. In this encounter between worlds, the scientists' methods and views are challenged by a civilization where death has been a central preoccupation for centuries.

Biography

Finnish-Irish-American filmmaker Donagh Coleman holds degrees in Philosophy and Psychology and Music and Media Technologies from Trinity College Dublin, and a MA in Asian Studies from UC Berkeley. Previous award-winning films with wide international festival and TV exposure include A Gesar Bard's Tale (2013) and Stone Pastures (2008). Donagh's films have also been shown at museums such as MoMA and the Rubin Museum of Art in New York, and by the European Commission. Besides films and TV-docs, Donagh directs radio documentaries for the Finnish and Irish national broadcasters. His Radio Feature Gesar! was Finland’s entry for the 2012 Prix Italia competition, and his feature Do I Exist? was Finland’s entry for the 2015 Prix Europa competition. Donagh has also worked as a TV journalist and presenter for the Finnish broadcaster YLE News. He is currently doing a PhD in medical anthropology at UC Berkeley, continuing the research conducted for his 2022 feature documentary on meditative Tibetan Buddhist tukdam deaths.

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