Forwarded by Sharpa Tulku

This week fourteen monks from Sera Je Monastery in India arrive in Madison, Wisconsin to begin their North American tour with the multi-media program, WILDLIFE, TAMED MIND: THE SPIRIT OF TIBET. Tibet comes alive through its vibrant and colorful rituals as the Sera Je monks perform dynamic masked dances to the rumble of twelve-foot musical horns and the clash of cymbals. Vivid photographic images of the splendid natural beauty of the "Land of snows" fill a large format screen, and His Holiness the Dalai Lama describes his training and spiritual practice in video excerpts that radiate with his warmth and wisdom.

WILDLIFE, TAMED MIND takes the audience beyond the myth of "Shangrila," in a narrative that tells the story of Tibet, how it rose to great political power, how it became a sacred land where the teachings of Buddhism flourished, and how the Communist Chinese invasion devastated a magnificent and happy nation.

The program unites the live dance, music and chant of Sera Je monks, with the narrative flow of multi-media imagery to produce a whole and coherent picture of Tibetan history, culture and religion. Sera Je tour will be travelling all over North, Central, and South America between February to December, 1969.

The tour schedule through May will appear in the forthcoming Snow Lion Newsletter.

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