Volume 19, Issue 1

WINTER/SPRING 2010 - ISSUE 19.1 P R E S I D E N T ’ S L E T T E R , U P C O M I N G S P E C I A L E V E N T S , G A L L E RY E X H I B I T I O N S , M E N L A M O U N TA I N R E T R E AT, E D U C AT I O N A L P RO G R A M S , H . H . D A L A I L A M A T E A C H I N G S C H E D U L E

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November 22, 2009 Common Era Year, Tibetan Era Year 2135, Earth Ox Year moving into Wood Tiger Year.

DEAR THUS MEMBER,

Greetings as all the new year gets under way! It seems as if we will have several more hard years before things get better, even under the inspiring leadership of our new President. We daily remember our brothers and sisters in Tibet and China, who still suffer horrendously from the self-defeating activities of the hardline Communist officials. We at Tibet House US Board, staff, and volunteers have been working hard, amid these tough times so many are facing all over the world, to follow Tibetan’s good example to be positive, working toward the most optimistic outcomes while preparing for the worst that all too often arrives.

We are especially thankful to the Board, for their sage advice which enabled us to weather the economic crisis in reasonable shape so far.

We have gloriously published our A Shrine for Tibet art book on the Alice S. Kandell collection–special thanks go to Prof. Marylin Rhie for her masterful essay, to Dr. Thomas Yarnall, for his brilliant design, tremendous effort, and impeccable editing, and to John Bigelow Taylor for his exceptional photography.The book will serve as the catalogue for an upcoming exhibition at the Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, opening in early March. Forthcoming, we have half a dozen new publications in our long-term project to translate the 3600+ books of the Tibetan Tengyur, publishing them with the American Institute of Buddhist Studies and Columbia University Press as the Treasury of the Buddhist Sciences. Speaking of sciences, Dr. William Bushell and colleagues have brought out with the New York Academy of Sciences a seminal book stemming from our Menla Conference on the state-of-the-art modern Western and ancient Tibetan findings for lengthening life, entitled Longevity, Regeneration, and Optimal Health: Integrating Eastern and Western Perspectives (May 2009). We congratulate one of the contributors to the volume, our friend Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn, for her Nobel Prize soon to be received in Stockholm.

This year’s excellent array of exhibitions is detailed elsewhere.

Our Repatriation Collection continues to grow: in this cycle we are especially grateful to John C. Rezk, Phillip J. Rudko, and Beata Tikos and Michael McCormick for their generous donations of important works. We also continue to be delighted by the continuous stream of wonderful exhibitions hosted by our nearby sister institution, the Rubin Museum of Art, whose dynamic creativity helps the work immeasurably, holding high the beauty and fascination of the precious culture of Tibet.

Menla Mountain Retreat is also developing, with THUS Managing Director Nena Thurman devoting her energy to its structures and programs, Duke Beeson, our wonderful architect and the expert interior design consultation from the famous

Clodagh. Step by step we are moving closer to the long term vision of manifesting Tibetan and Integrative Medicine in that magic hidden sacred valley (Tibetan, spas yul), under the healing umbrella of the Medicine Buddha (see page 12).

We just had an excellent auction thanks to Lynn Schauwecker (chairwoman), and the energetic committee, also thanks to Dr. Hugo Weihe and Christie’s. With part of the proceeds we will once again help the Tibetan Community of New York and New Jersey’s project to create a cultural center in Queens as well as sending a contribution to the Tibetan Children’s Village.

Our Vice-President Philip Glass is hard at work creating yet another magnificant concert to be held at Carnegie Hall on Friday, February 26, 2010 (see page 4). We hope to see you all there! This will be the 20th Tibet House US benefit concert that Philip has created at Carnegie Hall (24 concerts in total!) and we continue to be grateful for his generous and tireless work.

I should note that in this year we have missed tremendously the presence of one of our most treasured Board Members, dear Leila Hadley Luce, who passed away all too soon last February 10; but we are consoled by the sense that she is now enjoying heavenly comfort, no doubt gleefully planning her next creative foray into the human realm–hopefully once again in New York City.

And of course, all our programs and development could not proceed without you and the work that you are accomplishing through your ongoing ethical, intellectual, and financial interest and support. Please invite your friends to join our efforts. We constantly remind ourselves that the underlying mission of these next years is to finalize the endowment of THUS and its international affiliated network of Tibet Houses, so that everyone, especially our Chinese friends, can see the permanence of THUS, and so know that the precious culture of Tibet will remain in the world’s mind and heart for the duration of whatever may happen for however long!

With great gratitude for all your support, and all blessings for your health and happiness for the New Year, Sincerely yours,

Robert A. F. “Tenzin”Thurman President December 1, 2009

Cover images: left to right:“Wild Deer” by Hamid Sardar, Vajrabhairava, 15th century,Tibet, gift of John C. Rezk. Amitabha, 14th century,Tibet, gift of John C. Rezk, Six armed Mahakala, Mongolia, 18th century, gift of Alice S. Kandell.

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B E N E F I T AU C T I O N AT C H R I S T I E ’ S Wednesday, November 18, 2009

by Steven Kaplan

The annual Tibet House US auction was held on Wednesday, November 18, 2009. It hosted 450 generous souls and successfully raised more than 300 thousand dollars. These will go to benefit ongoing programs at the House as well as educational efforts to preserve the Tibetan language and the cultural heritage of song, dance, painting and Buddhist philosophy, both in the Dharamsala exile and also in the local New York - New Jersey Tibetan community.

The event has been a cherished spot on my social calendar for many years, and not just for its intrinsic glamour (where Uma Thurman and Donna Karan go, so shall I wish to go), or for the gathering of so much wonderful art and fashion under one roof, so many goods and services donated to a most worthy cause. Not just for the opportunity to sample the rarefied air of Christie's Rockefeller Plaza once again. Not even for the many friends and acquaintances I invariably meet, which lends the event a homecoming feeling for the intersecting worlds of music and art and fashion that comprise the downtown demimonde.

Of course I vastly enjoy all of the above. I was able to spend quality time this year with work generously contributed by Joseph Kosuth, Louise Bourgeois, Ed Ruscha, Yoko Ono, Patti Smith, Milton Glaser, Pat Steir, James Nares, Doug and Mike Starn, Adam Fuss, William Coupon, Bob Gruen, Georgia Marsh, Angelina Nasso and many others. I witnessed spirited bidding at the live auction for luxury vacations in Thailand, Bhutan, the Bahamas, Bali, St. Moritz, an African safari, even a backstage pass with Sting. I marveled at the musical dance performances of the Tibetan schoolchildren. I also ate, joked, flirted, and undoubtedly drank at least one too many Cosmos.

But near the end of the evening, as the dessert trays were being passed, I pulled Ganden Thurman aside to ask for his take on a very inspiring event, hoping he would characterize what we had just witnessed from a traditional Buddhist perspective. After a short conference with one of the Lamas, he came back with the phrase "enlightened self interest". My first reaction was "Huh?", followed by a prodigious effort to salvage some memory of my freshman philosophy class. But the longer I contemplated its significance from various angles, the more perfect his answer became. The idea that the best way to help yourself is by helping others, that "doing well by doing good" is not just a viable but an essential moral stance, and especially that doing all this resounds most significantly in a public arena, surrounded by a community of like minded individuals with whom you can share the exaltation of giving: this seems, in a nutshell, what the evening was all about.

In his pre-live auction remarks, Robert Thurman cited a Teaching of Great Compassion: That of all previous beings, there is not one who has not been reborn as your mother countless times, and who will not become your mother many times again. That even the roughest, toughest individuals can be imagined with that "mother look", that attitude of selflessness.

Considering the many people who made the auction possible, from the volunteers to the organizers to the donating artists and artisans to the bidders, we can imagine the "mother look" multiplied hundreds of times.

And while every item on auction certainly had its price, the sum total of the evening was finally beyond price, beyond words.

From top left clockwise:Tibetan Community dancers; Arden Wohl; Susan Dolma, Bumu Dega and Donna Karan; Robert Thurman and Hugo Weihe; Uma Thurman; Patty Abramson and Eric Ripert. Photos by Tracy Ketcher.

X X A N N U A L B E N E F I T C O N C E RT Friday, February 26th, 2010

Top left to right: Patti Smith, Philip Glass, Gogol Bordello. Bottom left to right: Baaba Maal, Dirty Projectors, Pierce Turner.

We hope you will join us to celebrate the Tibetan New Year, the Year of the Iron Tiger! Tibet House US will hold its 20th Annual Benefit Concert at Carnegie Hall on Friday, February 26th. Philip Glass, the concert’s Artistic Director, has once again brought together an amazing, original line-up of contemporary artists including Brooklyn-based experimental rock band Dirty Projectors, multi-ethnic Gypsy punk band Gogol Bordello, Senegalese master-musician Baaba Maal, rock icon Patti Smith, and Irish singer/songwriter/performer Pierce Turner. We are expecting other artists to join the line-up soon so check the Tibet House US website regularly as all new updates will be posted as soon as they are confirmed.

For the past twenty years at Carnegie Hall, the annual concert has assembled some of the biggest names in music and offers audiences a mix of unprecedented musical collaborations and solo offerings. And 2010 will be no exception!

Concert tickets are $35 to $85 and can be purchased by calling Carnegie Charge at 212.247.7800 or in person at the Carnegie Hall Box Office (57th Street and Seventh Avenue). Please note: concert only tickets are not available through Tibet House US. A fundraising reception with the events Honorary Chairpersons and artists will be held following the performance. Tickets for the reception include prime seats at the concert. For more information or to reserve tickets for the concert and reception call Tibet House US Monday-Friday, 10 AM- 5 PM at 212.807.0563 or visit www.tibethouse.org Carnegie Hall is located at 881 Seventh Avenue (at 57th Street).

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TIBET HOUSE US NEWS Science of Yoga Project, Tibet House/Menla William C Bushell, PhD, Director

This is an exciting time for the Science of Yoga Project at Tibet House/Menla. By the time this issue of the Tibet House Drum is arriving in Members’ mailboxes, Tibet House will have had the book celebration event for the new Tibet House-sponsored volume, Longevity, Regeneration, and Optimal Health; Integrating Eastern and Western Perspectives. This volume, which is based on the 2006 Menla Conference of the same name, has been published by the prestigious New York Academy of Sciences (Volume 1172 of the Annals series), one of the leading scientific publishers (in the top 2%) in the world. It contains the contributions of two dozen leading scientists and Tibetan lamas and scholars, who all met with His Holiness the Dalai Lama at Menla in 2006, to attempt to map out the interdisciplinary fields indicated in the title. This Conference and subsequent volume have spawned major research initiatives.

In one such initiative, we are following up on preliminary evidence discussed in the volume which suggests that Tibetan longevity yoga and meditation may exert antiaging effects through the activation of the enormously important enzyme telomerase, which possesses potential

protective and regenerative properties on a cellular level. The recent discovery of this enzyme actually brought the 2009 Nobel Prize to our collaborator Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn, who published one of her first papers on meditation in our volume as well. This line of research also includes investigation of the potential role of newly discovered stem cells in Tibetan longevity yoga; our collaborator Dr. Neil Theise of Beth Israel/Einstein Medical Center was one of the first researchers to discover such lineages of adult human stem cells only recently. We are also involved in research into the enormous potential for meditation and yoga to protect the practitioner from the broad spectrum of inflammation-related disease, including infectious and cardiovascular disease, with collaborators from the prestigious Feinstein Research Institute. And finally, we are also involved in preliminary research into the neuroscience of Buddhist meditation on emptiness, based on the pioneering writings of Robert Thurman on the Tibetan Buddhist “inner sciences” and of HH the Dalai Lama on neuroplasticity. Please watch for further updates on these projects, and ways for Tibet House US members to be more directly involved, on the Tibet House/Menla website.

Special Mention of our Volunteer Colleagues It seems as good a time as any to pause and express our heartfelt gratitude to our intrepid volunteers in the last six months of programs, projects, events, and daily toil. Many who worked on the projects described herein have already been mentioned elsewhere so I would like to focus on the continuing assistance being rendered by Thomas Jasper whose advice on legal matters has been invaluable as has his reorganization of the reading library. Our collections -- art, audio, video -- registration and digitization efforts are moving along nicely, despite the untimely demise of a key service provider, thanks to the heroic efforts of Jessica Campbell (who left us for

Villanova and we wish her well in her studies there!) and the estimable Bob Lazell, who, with the remote assistance of stalwarts Jeff Kunken, Leslie Kriesel, and William Meyers, has been pulling all the various collections together and preparing them for public viewing. Newly arrived Marcella Hansen, a NYU undergrad with an interest in Medical Anthropology, has been working with Bill Bushell on our Science of Yoga Projects as well.We thank them all and look forward to presenting the work they’ve enabled in the coming year. A heartfelt thanks goes to the many volunteers at the auction and to those who will help us at the benefit concert!

TRAVEL WITH ROBERT THURMAN & GEOGRAPHIC EXPEDITIONS

These extraordinary adventures will focus on the vibrant local cultures of each country and feature visits to some of their most important Buddhist sites. In addition, Dr. Thurman will provide his captivating perspectives on Buddhist culture and religion through lectures and daily meditation instruction. Participants can sign up for either trip individually or may choose to join us on both journeys, back-to-back. Space is very limited and these trips tend to sell out very quickly.

Bhutan: Land of the Thunder Dragon – May 10-May 22, 2010 Highlights will include: * Meeting prominent local figures and villagers in the Bhutanese countryside * Attending a private ceremony at one of Bhutan’s oldest and holiest temples * Making a pilgrimage to the stunning, cliff-clinging Tiger’s Nest Monastery Mongolia’s Buddhist Culture – May 23-June 2, 2010 (optional Gobi extension June 2-7, 2010) Highlights will include: * Visiting the most impressive monastic communities of Mongolia * Hiking and optional horseback riding in the forest-shrouded Khangai Mountains * Attending a boisterous Nadaam Festival to watch traditional Mongolian horse racing, archery, and wrestling Groups will also be joined by Brent Olson, long-time GeoEx trip leader and Himalaya expert. With more than 20 years overseeing GeoEx's Himalayan program, Brent can introduce trip members to people and places few visitors ever have the chance to see.

For more information, detailed day-to-day itineraries, or if you wish to join us, please call 1-800-777-8183 or email mike@geoex.com.

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Tibet House US Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 12pm - 6pm or by appointment.

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Ratnasambhava Buddha by Hari Prasad Vaidya

Medicine Buddha by Pema Namdol Thaye

November 19, 2009 - January 29, 2010 Masterpieces of Contemporary Buddhist & Hindu Tantric Art Newar and Tibetan Paintings from the Collection of Robert Beer

February 11- April 16, 2010 Modern Buddhist Visions

by Pema Namdol Thaye OPENING RECEPTION: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11 FROM 6:00 - 8:00 PM

This exhibition features many new paintings made by the finest Newar and Tamang artists of Nepal over the last six years, revealing how this contemporary renaissance of modern tantric art has continued to flourish amidst the chaos of the Kathmandu Valley. The Newars are the original inhabitants of this once fertile valley, with their own ancient culture, traditions and language, and they were responsible for much of the painting, woodcarving and bronze casting that we now define as ‘Early Tibetan Art’.

Pema Thaye is renowned for his expertise in traditional Tibetan tangka painting, sculpture and the creation of rare three dimensional mandalas. Comprising complex geometry, symbolism and iconography, the arts of ancient Tibet represent one of the most elaborate and detailed spiritual and artistic traditions in the world. Pema Thaye has provided an important contribution to this traditional art for more than 28 years.

Robert Beer has studied and practiced Tibetan Buddhist Art for nearly 40 years, and over the last 12 years has been working closely with many of the Newar artists, both as teacher and collector. The predominant images in this exhibition will display many of the little known and often obscure tantric goddesses that populate the KathmanduValley, but will also featureTibetan tangkas from several of the senior and most highly trained Tamang artists of Nepal.

This exhibition will consist of not only his original paintings and prints, but also a premier showing of his 3-D artworks, including gem-adorned gold and silver creations and intricate carvings in wood and wax.

The essential core of the exhibition is Pema’s tangka paintings, varying in subject matter from ethereal celestial Buddhas, bodhisattvas and goddesses, and complex lineage refuge trees and mandalas, to mahasiddhas and arhats.

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Deer Totem by Hamid Sardar

May 6 - July 9, 2010 Dark Heavens: Hunters and Shamans of Mongolia

by Hamid Sardar OPENING RECEPTION: THURSDAY, MAY 6 FROM 6:00 - 8:00 PM Tibet House US presents an exhibition of stunning photographs by Hamid Sardar entitled "Dark Heavens: Hunters and Shamans of Mongolia". After living in Nepal and exploring Tibet and the Himalayas for more than a decade, Hamid went to Outer Mongolia in 2000 to document the nomadic tribes and their way of life.

Following horse-breeders, bear-hunters, wolf-tamers, eaglemasters and reindeer people on their seasonal migrations and hunting expeditions, Hamid's photographs focus on what he believes to be an ancient and enduring feature of nomadic civiization - the totem-like practices and beliefs connecting people to a fabulous pantheon of spirit-animals.

‘During the winter season, I would travel with the Duhalar reindeer people and stay with an old shaman called Tsuyan. On odd days of the waxing moon, she would go into a trance and transform herself into a reindeer bull, flying off to a place she called the Dark Heavens: a twilight world full of light, sounds and voices from where the ancestors reveal their hidden messages in the form of birds and beasts. 'We exist in relation to three things, she would say, ...nature, animals and the memory of ancestors.'

Once we forget, the guardian angels abandon us and we invite demons to take hold of our destiny.’

Hamid Sardar is a professional photographer as well as a scholar of Tibetan and Mongol languages who received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. In addition to the photographs exhibited in ‘Dark Heavens', he has produced three award-winning films.

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P RO G R A M S W I T H T Location for all events Tibet House US 22 West 15th Street Please register through the New York Open Center 212 219 2527 x200 Module 1 Living in the Long Now: The Buddhist Path for Today Robert Thurman, PhD In this series of classes, we will meditate together on the traditional Buddhist presentation of the stages of the path to a life that is more fulfilling through wisdom and love. Wisdom is a realistic insight into the way the world works and doesn’t work, an ever-deepening clarity that is the birthright of the human being. Love and compassion as an expanded sensitivity to our own and others’ suffering, that intensifies our will to freedom and opens our imagination to dare to be happy. To develop these fulfilling faculties, we need to become more conscious of our real situation, develop detachment from trivial possessions and pursuits, become more attached to the situations of others, open our minds to the possible positive results we can all achieve, and cultivate our critical intelligence and common sense. Professor Thurman will discuss very practically how we can use these stages in our daily life, incorporating meditational methods, including one-pointed, analytical and visualization practices. Main text for this course is Thurman’s Infinite Life, as well as Shantideva’s Way of the Bodhisattva.

(4 sessions)Wednesdays, January 27, February 3, 10, 17, 7-9 PM Registration #10WSB26T Module Price: $90 / Members: $80 Individual prices for evening talks: $25 (cash) at door.

Module II Pathways to Self-Healing: Lessons from Yoga, Meditation and Psychotherapy Dr. Miles Neale Monday, March 1: Reliance and Trust: Establishing an Optimal Healing Relationship and Practice Monday, March 8: Courage andTolerance: Stretching into Discomfort Monday, March 15: Discipline and Care:Working with Resistances Monday, March 22: Commitment and Consistency: Progressing along the Path The search for self-healing and happiness is universal and as enduring as human culture. Modern Western psychotherapies represent relatively recent contributions to this ancient endeavor, and can learn much from their older counterparts in the East. Hatha yoga and meditation, grounded in the Indian and Indo-Tibetan mind science traditions respectively, offer examples of contemplative techniques that have withstood the test of time and human application. In this series, we explore the commonalities between yoga, meditation and psychotherapy and distill their key lessons and mechanisms of change that lead to lasting self-transformation.

(4 sessions) Mondays, March 1, 8, 15, & 22, 7-9 PM Registration #10WSB66T Module Price: $90 / Members: $80 Individual prices for evening talks: $25 (cash) at door.

Module III How To Die Happy, Increasing Our Chances for Rebirth in a Good Neighborhood Robert Thurman, PhD All spiritual teachers in all traditions agree that you cannot live fully unless you have learned to do so in the constant light of death. The Tibetan tradition refined to a high degree the sophisticated sciences and arts of the dying and living processes, providing us with useful tools for dealing with death, those of others and our own as well, and also for living more consciously and realistically within that context. In this class, we will contemplate together the death and life realities, drawing primarily from the “Tibetan Book of the Dead,” and other Tantric and yogic sources, also discussing Sogyal Rinpoche’s Book of Livng and Dying and other recent works.

(4 sessions)Wednesdays, April 7, 14, 21, 28, 7-9 PM Registration #10WSB68T Module Price: $90 / Members: $80 Individual prices for evening talks: $25 (cash) at door.

Module IV Introduction to the Clean Program Alejandro Junger This introductory series of classes will give an overview of cardiologist Alejandro Junger MD’s groundbreaking Clean Program, a 21-day detoxification cleanse specifically designed to restore the intestinal integrity of the body's gut. Unlike traditional cleanses, Dr. Junger’s program has taken the benefits of juice fasting, sun, and total relaxation, and created a unique program designed specifically for people who want to experience the many benefits of cleansing, while maintaining their day-to-day business. Junger’s specialty in integrative medicine - practices between Western and Eastern Medicine known as Functional Medicine or “OpenMinded” Medicine – were the basis for his Clean Program. He will discuss these findings and his program in these three evening lectures.

(3 sessions)Wednesdays, May 5, 12, 19, 7-9 PM Registration #10WSB70Ts Module Price: $70 / Members: $60 Individual prices for evening talks: $25 (cash) at door.

ModuleV Healing Chöd - AThree-Evening Ceremony Rigdzin Dorje Rinpoche The Healing Chöd is a ritual derived from Macig Labdro’s thousand-year-old practice that the recently deceased Kunzang Dechen Lingpa Rinpoche revealed.

Kunzang’s son and spiritual heir, Rigdzin Dorje Rinpoche will lead monks and nuns of the Zangdokpalri community in this three-session healing in which participants lie down on the floor and absorb healing songs and music designed to pacify the causes of physical, emotional and spiritual discord.There is no text study or talk, but an explanatory lecture will be offered between sessions for those who want to learn more about this very powerful healing process. Note: Chöd must be taken as a whole; no individual evenings; pre-registration encouraged.

A Three-Evening Ceremony Tuesday, May 25, Wednesday, May 26, & Thursday, May 27, 7-9:30 PM Registration #10WSB89S Module Price: $195 - No Member Discount

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Faculty Bios

Mastering the Self Mark Epstein, Sharon Salzberg & Robert Thurman Buddha taught many ways of gaining control of the self but he did not adhere to a doctrine of mastery and submission. His method, and his intent, was much more subtle and far-reaching. While the everyday mind tends to run on by itself, driving our behaviors even when we might prefer that it not, the Buddha saw that it was possible to change this dynamic. Through a combination of compassion, understanding, instruction, practice and surrender, self-habits can loosen their hold. This evening's presentation will describe the Buddha's vision and try to convey some sense of what it might be like to have a self that is free.

Friday, March 5, 7-9 PM Registration #10WSB72P Module Price: $20 / Members: $18

Mark Epstein, MD is a psychiatrist in private practice in New York City and the author of a number of books about the interface of Buddhism and psychotherapy, including Thoughts without aThinker, Going to Pieces without Falling Apart, Going on Being, Open to Desire, and Psychotherapy without the Self. He is currently Clinical Assistant Professor in the Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis at New York University.

Buddhist Therapies Mark Epstein, Sharon Salzberg & Robert Thurman Buddha's first teachings, of the Four Noble Truths, were presented as a form of therapy. He described the anguish of dukkha as the illness needing treatment, clinging as the source of the distress, nirvana as the effect of the cure and the Eightfold Path as the treatment. And this was just the beginning. The most psychological of the world's religions and the most spiritual of the world's psychologies, Buddhism has continuously reinvented itself as it has moved across cultures, evolving and adapting its therapeutic methods to meet the needs of those it comes in contact with. Today's workshop, taught by three old friends whose collaboration has been therapeutic for each of them, will give a taste of the variety of the Buddhist approaches. Suitable for those with little or no knowledge of Buddhism or psychotherapy, as well as for those with more experience, the day will function as a mini-retreat in which the Buddha's dharma pokes through the clouds of everyday concerns.

Saturday, March 6, 10 AM-5 PM Registration #10WSB78S Workshop Price: $130 / Members: $120

Dr. Alejandro Junger was born in Uruguay. He graduated from medical school there in 1990 and moved to New York City. The long hours, stress, and change in diet soon reflected as Dr. Junger suffered from irritable bowel syndrome and depression. Becoming a patient of the system he was practicing was such a shock, that it started a journey of his own to search for an alternative solution to his health problems. His findings are the subject of his first book, Clean. He now lives in NewYork City, where he practices at the Eleven Eleven Wellness Center.

Miles Neale, PsyD, LMHC, a licensed psychotherapist who studied Buddhism in monastic settings in Thailand, India, Sri Lanka and Nepal and has taught mind/body health programs in university hospitals at Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, and in California, is currently a faculty member of the Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science.

Rigdzin Dorje Rinpoche is the son and spiritual heir of the deeply revered Kunzang Dechen Lingpa Rinpoche. His training included many years of solitary retreat, especially practicing Chöd, and his use of this healing practice is renowned as especially efficacious.

Sharon Salzberg is cofounder of the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) in Barre, Massachusetts. She is one of America's leading meditation teachers and authors, and has been a student of Buddhism since 1971, guiding meditation retreats worldwide since 1974. She is the author of The Kindness Handbook, (Sounds True), The Force of Kindness, (Sounds True), Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience, (Riverhead Books), and Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness, (Shambhala Publications) among others. For more information about Sharon, please visit: www.SharonSalzberg.com.

Robert A.F. Thurman, Ph.D., Robert A. F. “Tenzin”Thurman is the Jey Tsong Khapa professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University. A close personal friend of the 14th Dalai Lama for over forty-five years, he is a former Tibetan Buddhist monk, and co-founder with Richard Gere of Tibet House US. He has lectured all over the world; his academic and popular writing explore the relevance and application of Tibetan Buddhism to contemporary thought, science, and politics. He is a tireless advocate for Tibet.

Please note NYOC policy: A $10 registration fee is charged to non-members once per catalog season (3 per year). It is non-refundable and applies only to full day workshops and ongoing classes.

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MENLA NEWS

Above:Treatment room concept sketches by Rachel Massey. Below: Rabkar Wangchuk.

We are very happy to report that despite today’s challenging financial climate, Menla’s 2009 retreat season (our eighth) was our most successful season to date. We continue to flourish under our patron, His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama. We have seen that there is an increasing need for making time to reconnect with the land that sustains us, ground ourselves in a focused manner, and enjoy the perennial richness of mind-body and spiritual teachings. This year our guests have kept coming back for our in-house programs, and more groups are choosing to return year after year. We are profoundly grateful for everyone’s continued support, especially our hard-working seasonal staff. Without your dedication, this year’s success could not have been possible.

As we look forward to another busy season in 2010, our Healing Arts Center is nearing completion. The center will allow Menla to offer integrated healing applications and treatments combining the best of Tibetan medicine with elements of Western, Ayurvedic, and other holistic traditions. The building’s beautiful structure was designed by New York City-based architect Duke Beeson, a long time supporter and member of Tibet House US. As the physical construction moves ahead, we are now designing the interior of the spa and planning the exterior landscaping with the support of Clodagh Designs. Known for a visionary blending of leading-edge technology, eco-sustainable methods, wellness practices and ancient techniques, Clodagh Designs is an international studio of designers and architects that has been recognized with an impressive array of awards and commissions.

Most recently Clodagh was honored at Fashion Group International’s annual “Night of Stars” with an award in the category of Architecture and Interior Design. Clodagh Designs is very supportive of the spa project and is generously donating a large portion of their services.

Rachel Kohler is graciously donating all Kohler fixtures and accessories for the entire building. We also have two Tibetan master

painters, Samten Dakpa and Rabkar Wangchuk, who are creating decorations and Tibetan Buddhist art installations. When the physical construction is finished, they will paint the interior with traditional Tibetan motifs, giving it a totally unique aesthetic.

Despite tremendous enthusiasm regarding the spa and the generous donation of services by numerous artists and artisans, we still remain in need of further funding in order to complete the project. Our goal is to have the spa open and ready for business this summer. We are currently seeking donations or works of art that we can sell toward this end. There will be “naming” opportunities for larger donations.

The purpose of creating this Medicine Buddha-inspired Healing Arts Center is to expand the kinds of healing services drawn from the arts and sciences of Tibetan Buddhist and other ancient and modern traditions that we can offer people. In executing this healing mission, we intend to generate enough income to help support Tibet House’s many activities. Since there is such a dire need for healing in the world today, we anticipate this project will be a terrific success—especially given our proximity to New York City. We cannot express enough gratitude for all the continuing support of our friends and colleagues.

If you would like to make a donation, or have further questions, please contact Tania Robyn Cyrlin at 845-688-6897 ext. 7519 or by email at office@menla.org.

M E N L A P RO G R A M S Buddha & the Yogis: Vajra Body Richard Freeman, John Campbell, and Robert Thurman April 15 – 18, 2010 Clean Detox Retreat Dr. Alejandro Junger June 17 – 20, 2010 Jivamukti Yoga Vacation Sharon Gannon, David Life, and Dechen Thurman June 25 – 27, 2010 Hiking in the Catskills Robert Thurman and Friends July 2 – 4, 2010 Healing Chod Retreat Rigdzin Dorje Rinpoche July 16 – 18, 2010 Integrating Buddhism & Psychotherapy Mark Epstein and Robert Thurman August 13 – 15, 2010 Working with Your Enemies Sharon Salzberg and Robert Thurman Sept 3 – 5, 2010 Yoga with Colleen Saidman Yee Colleen Saidman Yee Sept 24 – 26, 2010 Conference on the Art of Living, Dying, & Being InBetween Faculty TBA Sept 30 – October 3, 2010

Menla Mountain Retreat facilities are available for meetings, retreats, trainings and workshops. If you are interested in booking the facility for your upcoming event or program, please contact Tania Robyn Cyrlin at (845) 688-6897 ext. 7519 or office@menla.org

To register, please visit www.menla.org and follow the links to the program’s online registration. If you have an unusual registration request, please call (845) 688-6897 ext.0 or email menla@menla.org. We will contact you to confirm that your registration request was received.

menla mountain retreat 375 pantherkill road, phoenicia, ny 12464 p 845 688 6897 f 845 688 6895 www.menla.org

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T H U S P RO G R A M S Sky Train Book Signing & Talk Canyon Sam Traveling on China’s new “Sky Train,” Tibet activist Canyon Sam celebrates Tibetan New Year with the Lhasa family whom she’d befriended decades earlier and concludes an oral-history project with women elders. As she uncovers stories of Tibetan women’s courage, resourcefulness, and spiritual strength in the face of loss and hardship since the Chinese occupation of Tibet in 1950, and observes the changes wrought by the controversial new rail line in the futuristic “new Lhasa,” Sam comes to embrace her own capacity for letting go, for faith, and for acceptance. Her glimpse of Tibet’s past through the lens of the women—a visionary educator, a freedom fighter, a gulag survivor, and a child bride—affords her a unique perspective on the state of Tibetan culture today—in Tibet, in exile, and in the widening Tibetan diaspora. Gracefully connecting the women’s poignant histories to larger cultural, political, and spiritual themes, the author comes full circle, finding wisdom and wholeness even as she acknowledges Tibet’s irreversible changes.

Wednesday, March 3, 7-9 PM Free; RSVP Surviving the Dragon Book Signing & Talk Arjia Rinpoche Surviving the Dragon opens a window to events from inside Tibetan-Chinese history during the final half of the twentieth century, a conflict that continues today between China and its ethnic minorities. Arjia Rinpoche will present the book by giving a talk about his life and events in Tibet that took place during the time period of the book.

In addition, he will sign copies for interested attendees.

Thursday, March 4, 7-9 PM Free; RSVP Tibet’s Natural Treasures Daniel Winkler Tibet’s beautiful people, incredible temples and stunning landscapes provide the backdrop for Daniel’s extremely entertaining and also educational narrative. The great diversity of the Plateau and the ways Tibetan’s have developed to live off of their abundant and often exotic natural treasures will be central to this presentation. An abundance of wildlife, medicinal plants and mushrooms will be shown in their natural and cultural environment. Daniel will show a selection of his best photos from all over the Tibetan Plateau taken over the course of twenty years working in Tibet.

Tuesday, March 9, 7-9 PM Price TBD; RSVP Meditation in Motion Jill Satterfield The Buddha taught there were 4 postures suitable for meditation; seated, standing, walking and lying down. These will be explored through various seated poses, walking meditation, and thoughtful yoga postures. Meditating either while still or in movement can erase distinctions between practicing and not by creating a life of practice. This class is suitable for beginners of yoga and meditation, and especially good for those who would like to experience the blending of the two.

Thursdays, March 11, 18, & 25 and April 1, 8, & 15, 7-9 PM Price TBD; RSVP Longevity, Regeneration & Optimal Health: Integrating East & West Dr.William C Bushell This series is based on the newly published volume from our conference of the same name, which explored the extraordinary commonalities of contemporary science and ancient yogic claims. Class 1 will focus on the 2009 Nobel Prize winning discoveries of volume contributor Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn, which help explain the efficacy of Tibetan longevity yoga. Class 2 will focus on how Tibetan yoga may offer protection against serious infectious disease and even physical trauma, as well as the progressive degenerative diseases associated with aging. Class 3 will focus on how Tibetan yoga may dramatically enhance cognitive functioning and protect against brain disorders.

Classes will include meditation, multimedia presentation, discussion, and Q and A. Wednesdays, March 17, 24, & 31, 7-9 PM Price TBD; RSVP

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Music & Meditation Program Open Music Ensemble The Open Music Ensemble returns to lead a series of evening meditations with improvised music - all are welcome. The evening begins with a guided meditation, awakening the senses. After a brief spoken introduction, members of the audience will be invited to place their attention on the sounds and silences especially created for the group by the Ensemble or to engage in any other meditative practice they might prefer while the musicians perform. After the musicians have finished playing there will be a short period of silence. At the end of the evening participants will be invited to share their meditation experiences with others present.

Open to all levels of interest.

Fridays, March 26, April 23, May 21, June 25 & July 23, 7-9 PM $10 Suggested Donation How to Use Meditation for Healing Joe Loizzo, MD, PhD & Miles Neale, Psy.D. Along with powerful meditation techniques, the contemplative traditions of India andTibet developed maps of the mind, body and nervous system to help guide people on their journey from stress and trauma towards inner peace, freedom and happiness.

Practicing meditation without some awareness of these maps is like trying to sail around the world with no compass, charts or star map. This course introduces novices and old hands to three contemplative maps of the body-mind that are used to guide the three main meditation techniques in the Tibetan tradition: deep mindfulness; mind-training and visualization.The introductions are based on the scientific teaching traditions (abhidharma) and psychologies (adhyatamavidya) of Theravada, Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism. Weaving discussion together with guided meditations, Drs. Loizzo and Neale explain these maps and how to use them to get the most healing benefit from your practice. The retreat will provide an intensive experiential review of the maps of the mind introduced in the class, with special emphasis on how they are linked with and guide popular Tibetan techniques like Great Seal Practice (Mahahumdra), the Seven Point Mind Training and the Sevenfold Mentor-Yoga of the Healing Mother (Tara) and Healing Mentor (Bhaishajyaguru).

Mondays March 29, April 5, 12, 19, & 26; 7-9 PM With concluding workshop on Saturday, May 1, 10 AM-5 PM Price TBD; RSVP The Novice: Why I Became a Buddhist Monk, Why I Quit and What I Learned Book Signing Stephen Schettini Stephen Schettini took his Buddhism so seriously that after eight years as a monk, he quit his robes, his teachers, his fellow monks and his hard-earned fluency in Tibetan, slamming the door on privileged monastic life. Now, thirty years later and teaching mindful reflection to secular, stressed-out consumers, he makes a careful distinction between Buddha and Buddhism. He’ll talk about the difficulties of balancing faith with open enquiry, and the challenge of transplanting the Buddha’s message in the West. Q&A will follow.

Friday, April 9; 7-9 PM $20 General/ $18 THUS Members Big Mind, Big Heart Evening Introduction Diane Musho Hamilton The "Big Mind Process" is most succinctly described as a combination of western psychological technique with a Zen Buddhist understanding of reality. The primary inspiration for the Big Mind Process exercise is the Voice Dialogue method. Voice Dialogue and Big Mind are similar to a variety of awareness exercises in Gestalt psychology, with Big Mind situating this process within a Buddhist ontology that moves one between the domains of the relative and absolute. The Big Mind Big Heart approach to life is a method of self-investigation that is straightforward and effective.

It's a new combination of tools, a blend of Western psychology and the Eastern traditions, developed for the express purpose of helping us to better understand the mind and the nature of human life.

Open to all levels of interest.

Friday, April 16, 7-9 PM $20 General/ $18 THUS Members

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Dream Yoga and Lucid Dream Theater Classes Michael Katz These four classes are intended to enhance creativity, self-exploration and spiritual/psychological growth through powerful techniques of lucid dreaming derived principally from the Tibetan dream yoga tradition. Lucidity within the dream state represents exceptional potential, and is a gateway to mastery of the dream process. Participants will join Dr. Katz as he induces lucidity within a dream by combined deep relaxation training and induction. Afterword we will deepen our dream material through a process of psychodrama.

Thursdays, April 22 & 29 and May 13 & 20, 7-9 PM Price TBD; RSVP An Evening Dharma Talk Anam Thubten Buddhist teacher, Anam Thubten will give a heart to heart dialogue, and invite everyone to join along in an exploration into the realm of truth which is always available to us. In this meeting, he will challenge every core belief, which have chained us to our misery for far too long. Freedom is knocking on our door.

Open to all levels of interest.

Friday, May 7, 7-9 PM $10 Suggested Donation, RSVP A Day Long Retreat Anam Thubten AnamThubten will lead this meditation retreat with teachings and guided meditations.

The emphasis of this retreat is to have a glimpse of experience of our true nature, which is already perfect without having the need to be improved or changed. When this realization happens, all notions of previous suffering and conflict lose their tight grasp along with all egoic identities. Anam Thubten will teach methods that help us to stabilize and carry this new understanding of true reality into our everyday lives.

Open to all levels of interest.

Saturday, May 8, 10 AM-5 PM $60 General/ $54 THUS Members Everyday Freedom Evening Dharma Talk Noah Levine Buddhism is a way of life. The practices of meditation, ethical behavior and compassionate engagement with the world are to be developed and lived in everyday life. This evening of meditation and discussion will focus on the application of mindfulness and compassion in everyday circumstances. Freedom is not a mystical destination, it is a moment to moment choice of how we respond to our lives in this world. This class is intended for all levels of interest.

Sunday, May 16, 7-9 PM $20 General/ $18 THUS Members

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Why and How to Cultivate Compassion Geshe Pema Dorjee Geshe Pema Dorjee was born in 1951 in Shillong, near the border between Tibet and India. From 1963 to 1973 he attended the Tibetan Homes Foundation School which had been established by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Thereafter, he attended the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics which was co-founded in Dharamsala

by His Holiness and Lobsang Gyatso. The Institute offered a six-year program in Prajnaparamita (Perfection of Wisdom) Philosophy and a four-year program in Madhyamika (Middle Way) Philosophy, and he attained degrees in both, the equivalent of an undergraduate and two Masters Degrees, in 8 years. In 1995 he was awarded the Geshe degree from the Drepung Loseling monastery. In Tibetan Buddhist education, this is the highest degree that can be earned, the equivalent of a Ph.D. Friday, May 28th, 7-9 PM & Saturday, May 29th, 10 AM-4 PM Friday: $20 Suggested Donation Saturday: $50 Suggested Donation Private Consultations by Appointment: Sunday, May 30th, 10 AM-4 PM Awakening the Self, Discovering Joy: Self-Realization Through the Three Doors of Body, Speech & Mind Two Day Retreat Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche Nearly any experience of body, speech, and mind can serve as your doorway to profound inner transformation. The keys to effectively unlocking these three doors are found in powerful meditation practices from the ancient Bon Buddhist tradition of Tibet. Engaging in these practices can help you to remove the physical, energetic, and mental blockages that prevent you from achieving your highest potential.

Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche will introduce the theory and practices of the Three Doors teachings. In simple, clear terms, Rinpoche will guide you to effectively integrate these practices of body, speech, and mind into your everyday life.

Open to all levels of interest.

Saturday, June 12 & Sunday June 13, 10 AM-5 PM Retreat Price: $150 General/ $135 THUS Members Individual prices for days: $75 at the Door* *Pre-registration not available for individual days

Tuesday Evening Meditations from 7-9PM offered on a donation (dana) basis: with Sharon Salzberg: January 26, February 2, 16, 23, March 2, 16, 30, April 27, May 4, 11, 18 & Miles Neale: January 12, 19, February 9, March 23, April 6, 13, 20

FA C U LT Y B I O S Anyen Rinpoche was born in Amdo, Tibet. His lineage can be traced to the Dzogchen master Patrul Rinpoche (Words of My Perfect Teacher). Rinpoche's training included years of intensive study and solitary retreat before he received the degree of khenpo and became head scholar of his monastic university in Kham, Tibet. He taught extensively throughoutTibet and China, and now mentors students throughout Southeast Asia, Japan, and the US He teaches currently at Naropa University.

William C. Bushell, PhD is a MIT biological anthropologist, and Director of EastWest Research at Tibet House US.

Diane Musho Hamilton is a gifted facilitator, mediator, a Zen priest and Zen teacher.

She is the dharma successor of Genpo Roshi, and is his first successor in the Big Mind lineage. She is well known as an innovator in facilitating group dialogues, especially controversial conversations about religion, race and gender relations.

Michael Katz, psychologist and artist, is best known for introducing and editing the popular book Dream Yoga and the Practice of Natural Light by Chogyal Namkhai Norbu (1992). He is also the author of the novel TheWhite Dolphin and the forthcoming book Dreams: the Royal Road to Enlightenment. Featured in the Discovery channel series "The Power of Dreams", he has taught in more than 10 countries on lucidity and dreams.

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D I R E C T O RY TIBET HOUSES Tibet House- New Delhi Cultural Centre of His Holiness the Dalai Lama 1, Institutional Area, Lodhi Rd. New Delhi 110003 INDIA Phone: + (91) 11-4611515 Fax: + (91) 11-4625536 thouse@nde.vsnl.net.in www.tibet.net/tibethouse/eng/ Tibet House Barcelona Casa Del Tibet Barcelona Fundació Casa del Tíbet Carrer Rossello 181 08036 Barcelona SPAIN Phone: +(34) 93-207-5966 Fax: + (34) 93-459-2090 info@casadeltibetbcn.org www.casadeltibetbcn.org Tibet House Mexico/Casa Tíbet México Orizaba # 93 México, D.F. Colonia Roma C.P. 06700 MEXICO Phone: + (52) 55-5511-0802 Fax: + (52) 55-5511-0467 www.casatibet.org.mx Tibet House Foundation Varosmajor u. 23 Budapest XII 1122 HUNGARY Phone: + (36-1) 355-1808 Fax: + (36-1) 213-5001 Tibet House Germany Kaufunger Str. 4 Frankfurt D-60486 GERMANY Phone: + (49) 69-7191-3595 Fax: + (49) 69-7191-3596 tibethaus@choedzong.de www.tibethaus.com Tibet House Italy/ La Casa del Tibet Votigno di Canossa (Re) 42026 ITALY Phone: + (39) 522-87-7177 Fax: + (39) 522-87-7177 www.casadeltibet.it Tibet House Moscow Rozhdestvensky blvrd, 19 107045, Moscow RUSSIA Phone: + (7) 495-621-61-85 info@tibethouse.ru Tibet House Switzerland Foundation Via Maggio1 b Lugano 6900 SWITZERLAND Phone: + (41) 76-571-7273 Fax: + (41) 91-973-1449 tibethouselugano@gmail.com www.tibethouseswitzerland.org

TIBET ORGANIZATIONS Conservancy for Tibetan Art and Culture (CTAC) P.O. Box 6598 McLean, VA 22106 info@tibetanculture.org www.tibetanculture.org Department of Education Central Tibetan Secretariat Distt. Kangra Dharamsala. HP 176215 INDIA Department of Information & International Relations Central Tibetan Secretariat Gangchen Kyishong Distt: Kangra Dharamsala HP 176215 INDIA Department of Religion and Culture Central Tibetan Secretariat Dharamsala Distt: Kangra HP 176215 INDIA Dhokham Chushi Gangdruk 75-22 37th Ave. #326 Jackson Heights, NY 11372 Phone: (646) 435-7880 www.chushigangdruk.org Institute of Buddhist Dialectics P.O. McLeod Ganj Distt: Kangra Dharamsala HP 176 219 INDIA Phone: + (91) 1892-221215 International Campaign for Tibet 1825 Jefferson Place,NW Washington, D.C. 20036 Phone: (202) 785-1515 Fax: (202) 785-4343 info@savetibet.org www.savetibet.org International Tibet Independent Movement P.O. Box 592 Fishers, IN 46037 Tel: (317) 579-9015 rangzen@aol.com www.rangzen.org Liaison Office of H.H. The Dalai Lama for Japan & East-Asia 5-11-30 Shinjyuku Shinjyuku-ku Fifith Hayama Bilding 5F Tokyo 162-0022 JAPAN Phone: + (81) 3-3353-4094 Fax: + (81) 3-3225-8013 lohhdl@tibethouse.jp www.tibethouse.jp Library of TibetanWorks & Archives Central Tibetan Secretariat Distt: Kangra Dharamsala HP 176215 INDIA

The Neydo Foundation 589 Fifth Ave., Suite 909 New York, NY 10020 Phone: (212) 262-0500 Fax: (212) 262-9799 tonibet@aol.com www.neydo.org Norbulingka Institute P.O. Sidpur Distt. Kangra Dharamsala. HP 176057 INDIA Office of H.H. the Dalai Lama Thekchen Choeling McLoed Ganj Dharamsala, Distt: Kangra HP 176 219 INDIA Office of Tibet 241 East 32nd St. New York, NY 10016 Phone: (212) 213-5010 Fax: (212) 779-9245 otny@igc.org www.dalailama.com The Office of Tibet Bureau of H.H. the Dalai Lama 10 Ring Rd., Lajpat Nagar IV New Delhi 110024 INDIA The Office of Tibet-London 1 Culworth St. London NW8 7AF ENGLAND Phone: + (44) 20-7722 5378 Fax: + (44) 20-7722 0362 info@tibet.com www.tibet.com Reception Center Tibet House 1 Institutional House New Delhi, Delhi 11000 INDIA Students for a Free Tibet 602 East 14th St., 2nd Fl. New York, NY 10009 Phone: (212) 358-0071 Fax: (212) 358-1771 sft@igc.org ww.studentsforafreetibet.org The Tibet Fund 241 East 32nd St. New York, NY 10016 Phone: (212) 213-5011 Fax: (212) 213-1219 tibetfund@tibetfund.org www.tibetfund.org Tibet Justice Center Phone: (510) 486-0588 Fax: (510) 548-3785 minnie@tibetjustice.org www.tibetjustice.org Tibetan Women’s Association c/o Office of Tibet 241 East 32nd St. New York, NY 10016 Phone: (718) 739-6021

Tibetan Children’s Village (TCV) Upper Dharamsala Cantt Distt: Kangra HP 176 216 INDIA Tibetan Community of NY & NJ 241 East 32nd St. New York, NY 10016 www.tibetancommunity.org Tibetan Museum DIIR, Gangchen Kyishong Dharamsala. Distt. Kangra Himachal Pradesh 176215 INDIA Contact: Demton Khang

FRIENDS OF TIBET ORGANIZAT IONS Alaska Tibet Committee 65330 Knob Hill Rd. Anchor Point, AK 99556 dpaljor@homernet.net Arizona Friends of Tibet P.O. Box 31956 Tuscon, AZ 85751-1956 Phone: (520) 885-6527 aztibet@azstarnet.com www.arizona-friends-of-tibet.org

TibetanWoman’s Association (TWA) P.O. Mcleod Ganj Dharamsala Distt: Kangra HP 176 219 INDIA

Bay Area Friends of Tibet 1310 Fillmore St. Ste.401 San Francisco, CA 94115 Phone: (415) 264-3264 Fax: (646) 488-3374 bafot@friends-of-tibet.org www.friends-of-tibet.org

Tibetan Youth Congress P.O. Mcleod Ganj Distt: Kangra HP 176 219 Dharamsala INDIA

Deerpark Buddhist Center 4548 Schneider Dr. Oregon, WI 53575 Phone: (608) 835-5572 www.deerparkcenter.org

Tibetan Medical & Astro. Institute Khara Danda Rd. Distt: Kangra Dharmsala HP 176 215 INDIA

Indiana Cultural Center P.O. Box 2563 Bloomington, IN 47402 Phone: (812) 331-0014 Fax: (812) 334-7046 www.tibetancc.com

United States Tibet Committee (USTC) 241 East 32nd St. New York, NY 10016 Phone: (212) 481-3569 Fax: (212) 779-9245 www.ustibet.org

BOOKSTORES East West Books 78 5th Ave. New York, NY 10011 Phone: (212) 243-5994

DAY CA RE Diki Daycare 31-24 38th St. Astoria, NY 11103 Phone: (718) 278-1033 dikidaycare@yahoo.com

EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZAT IONS Gaden Relief Projects 637 Christie St. Toronto, Ontario M6G 3E6 CANADA www.gadenrelief.org Naropa University 2130 Arapahoe Ave. Boulder, CO 80302 Voice: (303) 444-0202 Fax: (303) 444-0410 www.naropa.edu

Kansas City Friends of Tibet P.O. Box 32843 Kansas City, MI 64171 Kauai Friends of Tibet 6820 Kawaihau Rd. Kapaa, HI 96746 Los Angeles Friends of Tibet P.O. Box 641066 Los Angeles, CA 90064 Phone: (310) 289-4654 Fax: (310) 306-5037 friends@latibet.org www.latibet.org New York Tibetan Alliance 17 Battery Place, Suite #633 New York, NY 10004 Ottawa Friends of Tibet c/o The Bronson Center 211 Bronson Ave., Ste.240 Ottawa, Ontario, K1R6H5 CANADA Phone: (613) 738-9871 info@oft.ca www.oft.ca Project Tibet 403 Canyon Rd. Santa Fe, NM 87501 Phone: (505) 982-3002 Fax: (505) 988-4142 info@projecttibet.org www.projecttibet.org

San Diego Friends of Tibet 7737 Nightangle Way San Diego, CA 92123 Phone: (858) 279-5445 dberger558@aol.com www.tibetnetwork.org/mode/250 Stanford Friends of Tibet C/o ASSU Tressider Union Stanford, CA 94305 anakin@leland.stanford.edu www.stanford.edu/group/tibet Tibetan Alliance of Chicago 2422 Dempster Street Evanston, IL 60202 Phone: (847) 733-1111 info@tibetan-alliance.org www.tibetan-alliance.org Tibetan Association of Washington P.O.Box 77623 Seattle, WA 98177 Phone: (206) 444-4059 info@washingtontibet.org www.washingtontibet.org Tibetan Bridge P.O. Box 1042 J.A.F. Station New York, NY 10116 Fax: (212) 290-0214 john@tibetanbridge.org samten@tibetanbridge.org www.tibetanbridge.org Australia Tibet Council P.O.Box 704 Darlinghurt NSW 1300 AUSTRALIA www.atc.org.au Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center P.O. Box 2563 Bloomington, IN 47402 Tel: (812) 331-0014 www.tibetancc.com Tibetan Youth Congress Contact: Ngawang Tashi c/o Office of Tibet 241 East 32nd St. New York, NY 10016 Phone: (212) 213-5010 www.tibetanyouthcongress.us U.S. Tibet Committee (Philadelphia Chapter) 1102 Yardley Commons Yardley, PA 19067 Phone: (215) 824-2928 carolyn4tibet@aol.com World Artist for Tibet 142-20 84th Dr. # 7H Briarwood, NY 11435 Phone: (718) 658-0906 art4tibet@aol.com

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Circulation Desk Columbia University Libraries 535 West 114th St. New York, NY 10027 Phone: (212) 854-2235 www.columbia.edu

Dadon P.O. Box 1304 Middletown, CT 06457

Latse Contemporary Tibetan Cultural Library 132 Perry St. Suite # 2B New York, NY 10014 Phone: (212) 367-8490 Fax: (212) 367-8479 info@latse.org www.latse.org New York Public Library 455 5th Ave. New York, NY 10018 www.nypl.org

MUSEUMS The American Museum Of Natural History West 79th St. at Central Park West New York, NY 10024 Phone: (212) 769-5100 www.amnh.org Asia Society 725 Park Ave. Between 70th-71st St. New York, NY 10021 Phone: (212) 288-6400 www.asiasociety.org Brooklyn Museum 200 Eastern Parkway Brooklyn, NY 11238 Phone: (718) 638-5000 www.brooklynmuseum.org Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art 338 Lighthouse Ave. Staten Island, NY 10306-0198 Phone: (718) 987-3500 Fax: (718) 351-0402 www.tibetanmuseum.org Mechak Center for Contemporary Tibetan Art Contact: Losang Gyatso Phone: (202) 538-2477 gyatso11@yahoo.com www.mechak.com The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 Fifth Ave. at 81st St. New York, NY 10028 Phone: (212) 535-7710 www.metmuseum.org The Newark Museum 49 Washington St. Newark, NJ 07102 Phone: (973) 596-6550 Fax: (973) 642-0459 www.newarkmuseum.org Rubin Museum of Art 150 West 17th St. New York, NY 10011 Phone: (212) 620-5000 www.rmanyc.org

Gyume Monks of Gyume Tantric Monastery c/o Healing Sounds P.O. Box #2240 Boulder, CO 80306 Tel: (800) 246-9764 Nawang Khechog P.O. Box 7338 Boulder, CO 80306 www.nawangkhechog.com Yungchen Lhamo P.O. Box 4262 Long Island City, NY 11104 Tel: (212) 262-4492 www.yungchenlhamo.com New Earth Records 7 Avenida Vista Grande B7-305 Santa Fe, NM 87508 Phone: (800) 570-4074 Fax: (505) 466-2477 andrea@newearthrecords.com www.newearthrecords.com Techung Tibetan Folk & Freedom Singer 7 Paulson Ct. San Mateo, CA 94403 techung@techung.com www.techung.com Namgyal Yeshi Tel: (917) 863-7669 www.namgyalrapper.com

PAINTING Samten Dakpa Phone: (917) 500-9356 samdak12@yahoo.com www.samdak.com Phuntsok Dorje (Tangka Painting/Art Restoration) 280 9th Ave. Apt. 18E New York, NY 10001 Phone/Fax: (212) 842-4872 Kelsang Lodoe Oshoe (Master Tangka Painter/Sculpture) 412 N. Aurora St. Ithaca, NY 14850 Phone: (607) 273-0739 namgyalmonastery@namgyal.org Tsering Phuntsok 57 Clinton Place, 1st Floor East Rutherford, NJ 07073 tphuntsoknj@yahoo.com Pema Rinzin 150 West 17th St. New York, NY 10011 Phone: (212) 620-5000 ext.379 Gendun Sakya 4444 Calle Durquesa Santa Fe, NM 87505

Ven. Gyaltsen Chopel (Tangka/Decorative Painter) Nechung Foundation 110 First Ave. 5th Floor New York, NY 10009 Phone: (212) 388-9784 www.nechungnyc.org

Snow Lion Publications P.O. Box 6483 Ithaca, NY 41851 Phone: (800) 950-0313 Fax: (607) 273-8508 tibet@snowlionpub.com www.snowlionpub.com

Rabkar Wangchuk 94-38 45 Ave. 2 Fl. Elmhurst, NY 11373 Phone: (917) 375-5728 wangchkarts02@yahoo.com www.wangchukarts.com

Tricycle: The Buddhist Review 92 Vandam St. New York, NY 10013 Phone: (800) 873-9871 Fax: (212) 645-1493 www.tricycle.com

PERFORMING ARTS

RESTAURANTS

Chaksam-Pa Tibetan Dance & Opera Co. P.O.Box # 1573 El Cerrito CA 94530 Phone: (415) 341-2600 chaksampa@yahoo.com www.chaksampa.org Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts P.O. Mcleod Ganj, Dharamsala Dist; Kangra HP 176219 INDIA Phone: (91) 1892-221478 Fax: (91) 1892-221033 tipadhasa@hotmail.com www.tibetarts.org

PHOTOGRAPHY Sonam Zoksang zoksang@hotmail.com www.visionoftibet.com

PUBLICAT IONS Chronogram Arts/Culture/Spirit In the Hudson Valley www.chronogram.com Buddhadharma: The Practitioner’s Quarterly 1660 Hollis St., Suite #701 Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 1V7 CANADA Phone: (902) 422-8404 Fax: (902) 423-2701 info@thebuddhadharma.com www.thebuddhadharma.com The Buddhist Network Padma Samye Ling 618 Buddha High Way Sydney Center, NY 13839 Ven. Khenpo Tashi Deleg Phone: (607) 865-8068 www.padmasambhava.org New York Spirit 107 Sterling Place Brooklyn, NY 11217 Phone: (800) 634-0989 (718) 638-3733 Fax: (718) 230-3459 office@nyspirit.com www.nyspirit.com Shambhala Sun Magazine 1660 Hollis St., Suite #701 Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 1V7 CANADA Phone: + (902) 422-8404 Fax: + (902) 423-2701 magazine@shambhalasun.com www.shambhalasun.com

Cafe Himalaya 78 East 1st St. New York, NY 10009 Tel: (212) 358-0160 Cherin Sushi 306 East 6th St. Btw 1st & 2nd Ave New York, NY 10003 Phone: (212) 388-1348 www.cherinsushiny.com Cafe Tibet Brooklyn 1510 Cortelyou Rd. Brooklyn, NY 11226 Tel: (718) 941-2725 Himalayan Yak Restaurant 72-20 Roosevelt Ave. Woodside, NY 11377 Phone: (718) 779-1119 Lhasa Fast Food 37-50 74th St. Jackson Heights NY 11372 Shangrila Restaurant 129 2nd Ave. New York, NY 10003 Shangrila Tibet Kitchen 74-15 Roosevelt Ave. Jackson Heights, NY 11372 Phone: (718) 424-8900 Tibetan Kitchen 444 3rd Ave. New York, NY 10016 Phone: (212) 679-6286 tibki@aol.com * Tsampa * 212 East 9th St. New York, NY 10003 Phone: (212) 614-3226 (212) 460-5525

SAND MANDALA Namgyal Monastery Institute Of Tibetan Buddhist Study and Practice 412 N. Aurora St. Ithaca, NY 14851 Phone: (607) 273-0739 Fax: (607) 256-5132 mail@namgyal.org Lama Lobsang Samden Tibetan Buddhist Center Of Philadelphia 915 Spring Garden St. Philadelphia, PA 19123 Lama Lobsang Samten Phone: (215) 705-7018 www.tibetbuddhist.org/lobsangsamten

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SCULPTURE Sculpture & Painting 410 Esty St. Ithaca, NY 14850 Kalsang L. Oshoe Phone: 607-272-5557 Tseten Lhagyal (Nyarong) 48-16 46th St. #C2 Woodside, NY 11377 Phone: (917) 558-5751

STO NE MASON Sonam Lama MA Tibetan Association P.O. Box 822 Greenfield, MA 01302 Phone: (413) 773-5751

STO RES * Bakhor * 309-East 9th St. New York, NY 10003 andrugtsang@yahoo.com www.bakhor.org Beautiful Tibet 322 Bleecker St, Between Christopher & Grove New York, NY 10014 Phone: (212) 414-2773 nchoden@yahoo.com Dharmaware Inc. 54E Tinker St. Woodstock, NY 12498 Phone: US: (888) 679-4900 Intl: (845) 679-4900 www.dharmaware.com Do Kham 51 Prince St. New York, NY 10012 Phone: (212) 966-2404 Fax: (212) 3341245www.dokhamny.com Dolma Tibetan Carpets 417 Lafayette St., 2nd Floor New York, NY 10003 Phone: (212) 460-5525 dolmarugs@aol.com www.dolmarugs.com dZi - Tibet Collection Phone: 800-318-5857 info@tibetcollection.com www.tibetcollection.com East Village Cheese 40 3rd Ave. New York, NY 10003 Phone: (212) 477-2601 Floracopeia 206 Sacramento St., Ste. 304 Nevada City, CA 95959 Phone: (530) 470-9269 www.floracopeia.com Gateway to Tibet –Zagyel Studio 60 Main St. Phoenicia, NY 12464 Phone: (845) 688-5602 gala@gatewaytotibet.com www.gatewaytotibet.com Himalayan Arts 10 Main St. Water St.Market #408 New Paltz, NY 12561 Phone: (845) 256-1940 himalayanarts@aol.com

Himalayan Crafts 2007 Broadway New York, NY 10023 United States Phone: (212) 787-8500 Fax: (212) 787-8548 himacraft@aol.com www.himalayancraft.com Himalayan Vision 127 Second Ave. New York, NY 10003 Phone: (212) 254-1952 Fax: (212) 473-8959 himvision@aol.com Himalayan Wireless 34-08 Broadway Astoria, NY 11106 Contact: Gelek Tel: (718) 721-4040 Mobile: (917) 327-7954 Jewel of Buddha 31-90 37 St. Astoria, NY 11103 Contac: Dawa/Jampa Phone: (917) 807-0649 dobelgasi@hotmail.com Kumari Enterprises, Inc. 45-53 47th St. Woodside, NY 11377 Phone: (347) 242-3604 Mobile: (917) 650-4641 www.kumarient.com Land of Buddha 128 MacDougal St. New York NY 10012 Dawa T. Sherpa Phone: (646) 602-6588 Fax: (646) 602-6587 dawa35@yahoo.com www.lobny.com Mandala 17 Saint Mark's Place New York, NY 10003 Phone: (212) 260-1550 Fax: (212) 260-1550 mandalatibet@aol.com Mandala Tibetan Store (Brooklyn) 59 7th Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11217 Phone: (718) 789-0071 * Modern Tibet * 103 Sullivan St. (btwn. Prince & Spring) New York, NY 10012 Tsering Gyaltsen, Karma Yangzom Phone: (646) 613-0600 www.moderntibet.com Pema New York 225 Bedford Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11211 Phone: (718) 388-8814 www.pemany.com Potala.com Tibetan Dharma Store 90-4- 54th Ave. Elmhurst, NY 11373 Phone: (718) 255-5833 www.potala.com Sega Carpet New York Inc 117 Greewich Ave. New York, NY 10014 Phone: (212) 727-8084 segacarpet@blackberry.net

SEMBA 316 Bleeker St. New York, NY 10014 Phone: 212-727-8030 semba4u@aol.com Sera Dechen 63 East 7th St. New York, NY 10003 seradechen@verizon.net Shambala 92 Thompson St. New York, NY 10012 Phone: (212) 941-6505 *Shangri-La Day Spa* 247 West 72nd St. New York, NY 10016 Phone: (212) 579-0615 www.shangri-ladayspa.com Tibet Jewels 197 Bleecker St. New York, NY 10012 Phone: (212) 260-5880 gojxams@aol.com Tibet Bazaar 473 Amsterdam Ave. New York, NY 10024 Phone/Fax: (212) 595-8487 Tibet Carpet Inc. 29 Howard St. New York, NY 10013 Phone: (212) 966-7661 info@tibetcarpet.com www.tibetcarpet.com Tibet Emporium 156 Sullivan St. New York, NY 10012 Phone: (212) 228-8991 tibetemp@aol.com * Tibet Gallery * 1916 13th St. Boulder, CO 80302 Tenzin Pasang Phone: (303) 819-1510 info@tibetgallery.net www.tibetgallery.net Tibet Himalayan Gifts & Accessories 213 West 80th St. New York, NY 10024 Phone: (212) 873-9884 Fax: (212) 580-3712 tibet80st@aol.com www.tibet-80st.com Tibet Kailash 48 Greenwich Ave. New York, NY 10011 Phone: (212) 255-9572 www.tibetkailashny.com Tibet Mobile 37-50 74th St. Jackson Heights, NY 11372 Mingmar / Phuntsok Phone: (718) 205-2339 info@tibetmobile.com www.tibetmobile.com Tibetan Art & Crafts 7 Rock City Road Woodstock, NY 12498 Contact: Gala Khamba Tel: (845) 679-2097 www.tibetanartandcrafts.com

Vajra Collections 172 Prince St. New York, NY 10012 1945thinktibet@aol.com Vajra Pema 146 Sullivan St. New York, NY 10012 Phone: (212) 529-4344 Fax: (212) 529-1945 vajrapema@yahoo.com www.vajrapema.com Windhorse Trading Inc. 33-31 71st St. Jackson Heights, NY 11372 windhorse555@aol.com www.shopwindhorse.com Wisdom of Tibet 34 Carmine St. New York, NY 10014 Phone: (212) 255-2077 wisdomoftibet@yahoo.com Yak Mountain Looms Berkeley Design Center 31-95 Adeline St. Berkeley, CA 94703 Phone: (510) 985-2880 ymlooms@pacbell.net www.ymlooms.com

TANGKA RESTO RAT ION Susan St. C. Bennett Phone: (503) 695-6450 Fax: (503) 679-0037 suzette@stormingheaven.com www.thangkaconservation.com Ann Shaftel MSc, MA Conservator of Thangkas Phone: (902) 422-2327 tsondru@ns.sympatico.ca www.tsondru.com

TIBETAN ART APPRAISALS

Center for Buddhist Studies Columbia University 623 Kent Hall New York, NY 10027 Phone: (212) 851-4149 (212) 851-4122 www.cbs.columbia.edu/ Chuang Yen Monastery 2020 Route 301 Carmel, NY 10512 Phone: (845) 225-1819 Fax: (845) 228-4283 info@baus.org www.baus.org Friends of Drepung Gomang Monastery 633 Fern Rd. Glenside, PA 19038 Phone: (215) 576-5697 Andrea Kurz kurzmail@aol.com www.gomang.org Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche 3902 Woodland Park Ave. N Seattle, WA 98103 www.dpr.info Gaden Chophel Ling 186 West 6th St. Howell, New Jersey 07731 Phone: (732) 367-3940 Ven. Yonten Gyatso Jewel Heart New York 260 West Broadway, # 1G New York, NY 10013 Phone: (212) 966-2807 Gehlek Rinpoche newyork@jewelheart.org www.jewelheart.org Jonangpa Dorje Ling Center 3253 Shallowford Rd. Chamblee, GA 30341 Phone: (770) 451-7715 www.jonang.org

Lobsang N. Aye 61 Grove St., #4A New York, NY 10014 Phone: (212) 989-1829 Werner-ayeaaa@verizon.com

Nalandabodhi New York 324 West 23rd St. #2A New York, NY 10011 Phone: (212) 399-2193 www.nalandabodhi.org

Oriental Antiquities 263 First Ave. New York, NY 10003 Phone: (212) 260-0602

Kagyu Dsamling Kunchab 410 Columbus Ave. New York, NY 10024 Phone: (212) 989-5989

TIBETAN HISTORIAN/SCHOLAR

Kagyu Thubten Choling 245 Sheafe Rd. Wappinger Falls, NY 12590 Lama Norlha Phone: (845) 297-4840 Fax: (845) 297-5761 office@kagyu.com www.kagyu.com

Lobsang Sherab 993 Amsterdam Ave., Apt. 5A New York, NY 10025 Phone: (646) 255-4434 lobsangct@yahoo.com

TIBETAN BUDDHIST STUDY CENTERS The Bodhi Line Buddhist Information Line 61 Fourth Ave. New York, NY 10003 Tel: (212) 475-6650 info@bodhiline.org www.bodhiline.org

Karma Thegsum Choling Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche Phone: (212) 580-9282 nyckyu@aol.com www.kjagyu.org Karma Triyana Dharmachakra Monastery 335 Meads Mountain Rd. Woodstock, New York 12498 Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche (845) 679-5906 www.kagyu.org

Labsum Shedrub Ling Buddhist Learning Center 93 Angen Rd. Washington, NJ 07882 Phone: (908) 689-6080 Diana & Joshua Cutler www.labsum.org Namgyal Monastery Institute of Buddhist Studies 412 N. Aurora St. Ithaca, NY 14850 Phone: (607) 273-0739 Fax: (607) 256-5132 namgyal@lightlink.com www.namgyal.com Natural Dharma Fellowship P.O. Box 1021 Arlington, MA 02474 www.naturaldharma.org Nechung Foundation 110 First Ave. # 5 New York, NY 10009 Lama Pema Dorjee Phone: (212) 388-9784 www.nechungfoundation.com New York Insight Meditation Center 28 West 27th St., 10th Fl. New York, NY 10001 Phone: (212) 213-4802 nyinsight@earthlink.net www.nyimc.org NY Shambhala Center & Dharmadhatu of NY 118 West 22nd St., 6th Fl. New York, NY 10011 Phone: (212) 675-6544 Fax: (212) 633-8486 nysc@compuserve.com www.shambhala.org Naropa University 2130 Arapahoe Ave Boulder, CO 80302 Phone: (303) 444-0202 www.naropa.edu Orgyen Cho Dzong Nyingma Tersar Retreat Center 5345 Route 81 Greenville, NY 12083 Phone: (518) 966-4077 Fax: (518) 966-8971 OCDSangha@aol.com www.tersar.org Online Database of Buddhist Study Centers and Events www.buddhactivity.org Padmasambhava Buddhist Center 151 Lexington Ave. #8A New York, NY 10016 Khenpo Palden Sherab Rinpoche KhenpoTsewang Dongyal Rinpoche Phone: (212) 683-4958

PaldenSakya Center (PSC) 4 West 101st St. #63 New York, NY 10025 Phone: (212) 866-4339 PSC-New Jersey 289 Brookside Ave. Cresskill, NJ 07626 Phone: (201) 541-0007 PSC - Pema Tsal Meditation Center 541 Pacific St. Brooklyn, NY 11217-1902 Phone: (718) 797-9569 PSC - Woodstock 15 Meads Mountain Rd. Woodstock, NY 12498 Phone: (845) 679-4024 Fax: (845) 679-4093 Lama Pema Wangdak www.paldensakya.org Palyul Retreat Center 359 German Hollow Rd McDonough, NY 13801 Phone: (607) 656-9640 www.retreat.payul.org Nyingma Palyul Dharma Center 121 Bowery, 3rd Fl. New York, NY 10002 Phone: (212) 219-9832 info@palyulnyc.org www.palyul.org Rigpa New York 70 A Greenwich Ave. #174 New York, NY 10014 Sogyal Rinpoche rigpa_ny@yahoo.com Shambhala Meditation Center of Boulder 1345 Spruce St. Boulder, CO 80302 Phone: (303) 444-0190 x100 info@boulder.shambhala.org www.boulder.shambhala.org Siddhartha School Project P.O. Box 524 Freeport, ME 04032 Phone: (207) 523-9388 Geshe Lobzang Tsetan tsetan@earthlink.net www.siddharthaschool.org Tashi Lhunpo Temple Rashi Gempil Ling First Kalmuk Buddhist Temple 12 Kalmuk Rd. Howell, NJ 07731 Phone: (732) 363-6012 Ven. Tenzin Dakpa tenzing@olnagazur.org www.olnagazur.org The Tibet Center 25 Washington St., Ste. 304 Brooklyn, NY 11201 Phone: (718) 222-0007 Fax: (718) 222-0087 Khyongla Rato Rinpoche info@thetibetcenter.org www.thetibetcenter.org Tibetan Monastery 115 West 86th St. #15A New York, NY 10024 Dr. Bobbi Nassar Phone: (212) 595-0137

Tsechen Kunchab Ling 341 Lafayette St. # 755 New York, NY 10012 Phone: (212) 717-0832 Ingodup@nyana.org Lama Lobsang Ngodup Tsechen Kunchab Ling (TKL) Temple of All-Encompassing Great Compassion Seat of H.H. The Sakya Tenzin in U.S. 12 Edmunds Lane Walden, NY 12586 Phone: (301) 592-9286 info@sakyatemple.org www.sakyatemple.org TKL-Sakya Phunstok Ling Center For Tibetan Buddhist Studies & Meditation 354 Prelude Dr. Silver Spring, MD 20901 Phone: (301) 592-9286 sakya@erols.com Yeshe Nyingpo 19 West 16th St. New York, NY 10011 Phone: (212) 691-8523 nyingpo@aol.com www.tersar.org

Dr. Eliot Tokar Chapori Foundation 151-31 88th St. - Box 20 Howard Beach, NY 11414 Phone: 718-641-7323 etokar@aol.com www.tibetanmedicine.com

TRANSLATORS / INTERPRETERS English & Tibetan Interpreter 31-65 45 St. Fl. 1 Astoria, NY 11103 Contact: Karma Namgyal Phone: (646) 673-3373 English & Tibetan Interpreter 410 Esty St. Ithaca, NY 14850 Contact: Palden Oshoe Phone: (607) 272-5557 paldenoshoe@yahoo.com Tibetan Translation & Interpretation 40-30 74th St. Apt.2R Elmhurst, NY 11373 Contact: Pasang Tsering Phone: (212) 851-6109 him_goodhealth@yahoo.com

Zangdokpalri Foundation 130 7th Ave. New York, NY 10011 Phone: (212) 741-4443 Kyapgon Kunzang/Dechen Lingpa info@totalgoodness.org www.zangdokpalri.org

WEAVING

EXPERT S IN TIBETAN MEDICINE

Paling Oriental Rug Services 79-18 Woodside Ave. #5B Elmhurst, NY 11373 Phone: (718) 360-5551 palingors@yahoo.com

Dr. Tenzin Dakpa khawarispa@yahoo.com Dr. Yeshi Dhonden C/o Dr. Marsha Woolf 101 West 23rd St.158 New York, NY 1001 Phone: (212) 741-2727 tibetmed@aol.com amchila@aol.com Dr. Choeying Phuntsok Meridian Medical Group, PC 102 East 30th St. New York, NY 10016 Phone: (646) 301-1536 www.meridianmedical.org Himalayan Health Care P.O. Box 737 Plantarium Station New York, NY 10024 info@himalayan-healthcare.org www.himalayan-healthcare.org Ven. Patrul Rinpoche 41-32 50 St. Apt. 4 Woodside, NY 11377 Phone: (718) 412-2035 Phone2: (646) 510-1387 porarinpoche@hotmail.com

Ancient Weave, Inc. 243 East 59th St. New York, NY 10022 Phone: (212) 486-4044 gyurme@ancientweave.com www.ancientweave.com

Phurbu Kyipa 38 A Washington St. #2 NH Keene, NH 03431 Yeshi Rug Restoration & Cleaning Contact: Namgyal Yeshi Tel: (917) 863-7669 yeshirugrepair@gmail.com www.yeshirugrepair.com

WOODCARVING Dholak 169 Park Ave. East Rutherford, NJ 07073 Phone: (201) 933-8666 dholak@verizon.net Pempa Tsering 729 Heinz Ave. #10 Berkeley, CA 94710 Phone: (510) 644-2735 Fax: (510) 644-0696 www.artworksfoundery.com * Highlighted * businesses honor THUS member discounts

Dr. Tashi Rabten Blue Rock Medical Center P.O. Box 701 Valley Cottage, NY 10989 Phone: (845) 268-2339 info@tibethomeofhope.org www.tibethope.org

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C A L E N DA R ASIA SOCIETY & MUSEUM

SOTHEBY’S AUCTION HOUSE

725 Park Avenue at 70th Street New York, NY 212.288.6400 www.asiasociety.org Tuesday- Sunday 11 a.m.-6 p.m.

Fridays until 9 p.m.

1334 York Avenue at 72nd St New York, NY 212.606.7000 www.sothebys.com

NOW THROUGH FEBRUARY 7, 2010 Devotion in South India: Chola Bronzes MARCH 16 – JUNE 20, 2010 Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art

THE JACQUES MARCHAIS MUSEUM OF TIBETAN ART

MARCH 23 Chinese Works of Art

CHRISTIE’S AUCTION HOUSE 20 Rockefeller Plaza New York, NY 212.636.2000 www.christies.com MARCH 23 South Asian Modern and Contemporary Art

338 Lighthouse Avenue Staten Island, NY 718.987.3500 www.tibetanmuseum.org

MARCH 23 Indian and Southeast Asian Works of Art

NOW THROUGH DECEMBER 31, 2010 Tibetan Portrait: The Power of Compassion

MARCH 24 Japanese & Korean Art

RUBIN MUSEUM OF ART

MARCH 25 Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art

150 West 17th Street New York, NY 212.620.5000 www.rmanyc.org NOW THROUGH JANUARY 11, 2010 Mandala NOW THROUGH FEBRUARY 15, 2010 Victorious Ones NOW THROUGH MARCH 14, 2010 From the Land of the Gods NOW THROUGH MAY 10, 2010 Visions of the Cosmos FEBRUARY 12 - JULY 12, 2010 Bardo NOW THROUGH FEBRUARY 4, 2013 What Is It?

THE NEWARK MUSEUM 49 Washington Street Newark, New Jersey 973.596.6550 www.newarkmuseum.org Ongoing Exhibitions: Southeast Asia: Art of a Cultural Crossroads Influences of the Indic World: India & Nepal Gods, Guides and Sacred Symbols of India

H . H . T H E D A L A I L A M A’ S 2010 FA C U LT Y B I O S TEACHING SCHEDULE

C O N T I N U E D F RO M PAG E

INDIA JANUARY 5 - 9 Bodh Gaya Five-day teachings on Nagarjuna's In Praise of the Transcendental (jigten ley depar toepa), Atisha's Lamp of the Path to Enlightenment (jangchup lamdron), Longchen Rinpoche's Mind In Comfort and Ease (semnyid nyelso) & Tsongkhapa's Short Version of the Stages of the Path To Enlightenment (lamrim dhuedhon).

JANUARY 10 Bodh Gaya His Holiness will confer a long life empowerment (tsewang) and a long life prayer will be offered to His Holiness.

JANUARY 10 –15 Orissa Monastery Inauguration at RigonThupten Mindrolling Monastery.

MARCH 2-17 Dharamsala Annual spring teachings (Monlam teachings) at the Main Temple in Dharamsala.

SWITZERLAND APRIL 9–11 Kongresshaus, Zurich Mind and Life Conference XX: Altruism and Compassion in Economic Systems: A Dialogue between Economics, Neuroscience and Contemplative Sciences www.compassionineconomics.org

U. S . A .

MAY 18 Cedar Falls, Iowa Visit to the University of Northern Iowa to share his views on the importance of education in an increasingly global society.

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Noah Levine, author of Dharma Punx and Against The Stream, is a Buddhist teacher, author and counselor. He was trained by Jack Kornfield of Spirit Rock Meditation Center. He is the founding teacher of Against the Stream Buddhist Meditation Society in Los Angeles. Noah holds a Masters degree in counseling psychology and is on the board of directors of the Buddhist Recovery Network.

Joseph Loizzo, MD, PhD, a Harvard-trained psychiatrist and Columbia-trained Buddhist scholar with over 30 years’ experience studying the effects of meditation on healing and learning, is Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry in Complementary and Integrative Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and the founder of the Nalanda Institute.

The Open Music Ensemble, established in 2006, is a cooperative of versatile, skilled musical improvisers and a pioneer in the development and performance of "Open Music". With few exceptions, the notes, rhythms, and sounds are intuitively created by the Ensemble members during the performance as they listen to each other and permit themselves to respond spontaneously to what they hear, and by listening and standing out of the way, the Ensemble's sounds and rhythms move to a deeper level and offer the audience a more profound musical experience: "Open Music".

Canyon Sam is a San Francisco writer, performance artist, and Tibet activist.

Her one-woman show “The Dissident” was critically acclaimed in the Village Voice and the Boston Globe.

For the past 17 years, Jill Satterfield has been traveling and teaching Vajra Yoga.

She is the founder of the Mind Body Therapy for Social Action, a non-profit developed as a professional yoga and meditation training for teaching at-risk youth and adults, people living in chronic pain and illness, PTSD and those in recovery programs. She is on the faculty of Spirit Rock Meditation Center’s Mindfulness Yoga and Meditation Training Program, and Kripalu’s Integrative Leadership Program.

Stephen Schettini, a former monk, is author of The Novice: Why I Became a Buddhist Monk, Why I Quit and What I Learned and director of Quiet Mind Seminars in Montreal.

Tenzin Rinpoche is the author of: Healing With Form, Energy, and Light; The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep; Wonders of the Natural Mind; and Tibetan Sound Healing. He coauthored Unbounded Wholeness with Professor Anne Klein.

AnamThubten grew up inTibet and at an early age, received traditional Buddhist training. He is the founder of the Dharmata Foundation and the author of various articles and books in both Tibetan and English. His first book in English appeared under the title No Self, No Problem.

Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche is a teacher in the Bon Buddhist tradition of Tibet renowned for his engaging teaching style, for his ability to make profound teachings highly relevant and practical, and for his skill in bringing Western students to clear, direct understanding through personal experience.

Daniel Winkler is trained as a geographer and ecologist and works as free-lance researcher and NGO consultant on environmental issues of the Tibetan Plateau and the Himalayas. He has published on forest ecology, forestry, traditional and contemporary land-use, conservation, medicinal plants and recently mostly on fungi; see: www.danielwinkler.com and www.mushroaming.com.

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AVAILABLE ONLINE & IN THE GIFT SHOP A Shrine for Tibet : The Alice S. Kandell Collection Hardcover: 336 pages with 3 Page Fold-Out Publisher: Overlook Press/ Tibet House US Tibetans regard a shrine in a technical way as a doorway into the enlightened world, a laboratory in which the structure of that world is designed, and a refuge in which it is enjoyed and brought into the ordinary world to be shared with suffering beings.

The Alice S. Kandell collection was assembled to create such an authentic Tibetan Buddhist shrine room, complete with all ritual arrangements and equipment, according to the practice of Tibetan and Mongolian reincarnate lamas. Tibetan Buddhist art can open our eyes to see the extraordinary world of enlightenment, imagine that it exists, and strive to awaken to its greater reality.

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