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AsiaLENS Screening: Daughters of Wisdom
The Spurlock Museum will provide the screening of the documentary film, Daughters of Wisdom.
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Directed by Bari Pearlman, the documentary film Daughters of Wisdom (2007, 68 min.) provides an intimate portrait of some of the nearly 300 nuns who receive unprecedented educational and religious training at the Kala Rongo Monastery, located on the remote Eastern Tibetan plateau north of the Himalayas. Trailers and information about the film can be found at: http://www.daughtersofwisdom.com
Arjia Rinpoche is the former Head Abbot of Kumbum Monastery in Amdo, Eastern Tibet, one of the most important monasteries in Tibet. Fleeing Tibet in 1998, Arjia Rinpoche eventually found political asylum in the United States, establishing in 2000 the Tibetan Center for Compassion and Wisdom, based in Oakland, CA. A master of many art forms, as well as architectural design, his three-dimensional Kalachakra Mandala has been exhibited at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. In 2005, the Dalai Lama appointed Arjia Rinpoche Director of the Tibetan Buddhist Mongolian Cultural Center in Bloomington, Indiana, which will evolve to become Kumbum Monastery in the west.
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