WISDOM OF HAPPINESS, directors Barbara Miller & Philip Delaquis WISDOM OF HAPPINESS is a deeply intimate and highly cinematic documentary featuring the Dalai Lama, who, at nearly 90 years old, offers practical advice for navigating the 21st century’s challenges. The film captures the Dalai Lama speaking directly to viewers, creating a sense of a private […]

THE LION’S ROAR, director Mark Elliott This is the masterful portrait of the late 16th Gyalwa Karmapa, the great Tibetan Buddhist master known as the Black Hat Lama. The Karmapa is the head of the Karma Kagyu lineage, one of the four great lineages of Tibetan Buddhism. His line of successive reincarnations has its origins

O MOTHER GAIA – THE WORLD OF GARY SNYDER, director Colin Still This is the first feature-length film documenting the life and work of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet/activist Gary Snyder. A participant in the famed 1955 Six Gallery poetry reading in San Francisco that launched the Beat era (and the careers of Allen Ginsberg and Jack

Lyrical Dharma: A Journey through Music and Mindfulness. This will be an immersive experience blending spoken word, live performance and readings.

WOMEN OF TIBET: GYALYUM CHEMO – THE GREAT MOTHER, director Rosemary Rawcliffe Women of Tibet: Gyalyum Chemo – The Great Mother recounts the compelling story of Dekyi Tsering, the mother of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. Dekyi Tsering, known by Tibetans as ‘Gyalyum Chemo’ or ‘Great Mother,’ gave birth to 16 children, three of

ONE MIND is a rare cinematic portrait of life inside one of China’s most austere and revered Zen communities. The monks at Zhenru Chan Monastery continue to uphold a strict monastic code established over 1200 years ago by the founding patriarchs of Zen in China.

Dances of Universal Peace with Waduda and Jahanara. The Dances of Universal Peace are a joyful, embodied, sacred practice of sound and movement. The chants and movements are powerful, but simple and repetitive, and easily accessible, even to beginners. Everything is taught in the moment so anyone can join.

PIG AT THE CROSSING, director Khyentse Norbu Dolom, a YouTuber, has an affair with married Deki. She’s pregnant. After his accidental death, Dolom’s soul enters limbo. Guided to confront his past choices, he must relinquish attachments to move on or remain trapped indefinitely. With the help of a mysterious guide, Dolom navigates this in-between realm

Welcome, Nawang Khechog performance, short film, trailer and film “The Dalai Lama’s Gift”, followed by panel discussion and Q&A with director Ed Bastian, and special guests HE Tulku Yeshi Rinpoche and Nawang Khechog. THE DALAI LAMA’S GIFT, director Ed Bastian In 1982 , a Buddhist monk teaching at the University of Madison, Wisconsin, made the