| DATE: | Tuesday, February 8, 2005 |
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| TIME: | 7:30 p.m. |
| PLACE: | Wheeler Auditorium |
| FORMAT: | Film screening |
| SPONSOR: | Center for Buddhist Studies, Institute for East Asian Studies, International Buddhist Film Festival |
Followed by discussion with Georges Dreyfus, Donald Lopez and Orville Schell.
Martin Scorsese's Kundun is the story of Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama. His discovery as a child, schooling as a monk and teenage head of state, escape during the Chinese invasion and eventual exile in India are vividly depicted with Oscar-nominated cinematography by Roger Deakins and music by Philip Glass.
The film will be followed by a discussion between Georges Dreyfus, the first Westerner to obtain the title of Geshe Lharampa, the highest degree confered within the traditional Tibetan monastic system and author of Two Hands Clapping, and Donald Lopez, expert on Tibetan Buddhism and author of Prisoners of Shangri-La. The discussion is moderated by Orville Schell, Dean of UC Berkeley's School of Journalism and author of Virtual Tibet.
For tickets, please visit http://www.ibff.org or call (925) 275-9005.
UC Berkeley students will receive complementary tickets at the door (please bring your student ID to the "will-call" booth).
