Kundun

Author : Mary Craig
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1998-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781887178914

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Kundun by Mary Craig Pdf

Here is the story of Tibet as told by its remarkable first family--a story of reincarnation, coronation, heartbreaking exile, and finally the tenacious efforts of a holy man to save a nation and its people. Kundun is the first work to focus on the Dalai Lama's family--his parents, four brothers, and two sisters. Particularly compelling are Mary Craigs portraits of the Dalai Lamas siblings, who have negotiated with China on behalf of their country, enlisted the aid of international allies to spearhead Tibetan Resistance, and worked tirelessly to help thousands of sick and starving refugee children. This remarkable book opens in 1933 with the death of the thirteenth Dalai Lama and the frantic effort among Tibetan authorities to find his reincarnation. In their search for a baby boy displaying the characteristic marks of a Dalai Lama--tiger striped legs, wide eyes, large ears, and palms bearing the pattern of a sea shell--officials were led to a tiny village in northeastern Tibet, home of Lhamo Dhondup, a smart, stubborn toddler already known for his tantrums. Responding calmly when a group of high lamas and dignitaries tested his memory of a previous life, the child easily recognized a rosary, walking stick, and drum belonging to the thirteenth Dalai Lama. In an instant this little boy and his entire family were swept into a world of unending ritual and complex internal politics. Lhamo was installed as the fourteenth Dalai Lama at the age of three, and was known from that point on as His Holiness or Kundun (the Presence), titles even his family members were obliged to use. A few years later the young Dalai Lama and his family were faced with China's invasion of Tibet. Living in exile since the late 1950s, they have waged a decades-long struggle for the freedom of their country. Particularly compelling are Craig's portraits of the Dalai Lama's siblings, who have negotiated with China on behalf of their country, enlisted the aid of international allies to spearhead Tibetan Resistance, and worked tirelessly to help thousands of sick and starving refugee children.

Author : Aravinda Ananthraman
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9788184755602

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The 14th Dalai Lama by Aravinda Ananthraman Pdf

Looking out of his carriage; the Dalai Lama saw people crying with joy. Their Kundun had returned. Born to a family of farmers in a remote corner of Tibet; Lhamo Dhondup; was recognized as the fourteenth reincarnation of the Dalai Lama at the age of two. He took charge of his country in 1950 when the Chinese invaded Tibet. The rest of his teens were spent in negotiations with the Chinese government. However; as Chinese violence against Tibetans increased; Kundun was forced to flee his native land. His escape over the Himalayas is the stuff of adventure novels. Exiled now in India for over five decades; the Dalai Lama constantly champions Tibet’s independence while remaining its greatest spiritual mentor. He received the Nobel Prize in 1989 for his non-violent efforts to gain freedom for his country. Rich in personal anecdotes; this engaging biography shows how Kundun blends spirituality with politics. To the Tibetans; the Dalai Lama is God incarnate. To the world; he is the face of Tibet. To young readers; he can be a living embodiment of the ideals of peace; democracy and freedom.

Author : Chris Holmlund
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780813543666

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American Cinema of the 1990s by Chris Holmlund Pdf

Films discussed include Terminator 2, The matrix, Home alone, Jurassic Park, Pulp fiction, Boys don't cry, Toy story and Clueless.

Author : Naomi Greene
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9789888208692

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From Fu Manchu to Kung Fu Panda by Naomi Greene Pdf

Throughout the twentieth century, American filmmakers have embraced cinematic representations of China. Beginning with D.W. Griffith’s silent classicBroken Blossoms (1919) and ending with the computer-animated Kung Fu Panda (2008), this book explores China’s changing role in the American imagination. Taking viewers into zones that frequently resist logical expression or more orthodox historical investigation, the films suggest the welter of intense and conflicting impulses that have surrounded China. They make clear that China has often served as the very embodiment of “otherness”—a kind of yardstick or cloudy mirror of America itself. It is a mirror that reflects not only how Americans see the racial “other” but also a larger landscape of racial, sexual, and political perceptions that touch on the ways in which the nation envisions itself and its role in the world. In the United States, the exceptional emotional charge that imbues images of China has tended to swing violently from positive to negative and back again: China has been loved and—as is generally the case today—feared. Using film to trace these dramatic fluctuations, author Naomi Greene relates them to the larger arc of historical and political change. Suggesting that filmic images both reflect and fuel broader social and cultural impulses, she argues that they reveal a constant tension or dialectic between the “self” and the “other.” Significantly, with the important exception of films made by Chinese or Chinese American directors, the Chinese other is almost invariably portrayed in terms of the American self. Placed in a broader context, this ethnocentrism is related both to an ever-present sense of American exceptionalism and to a Manichean world view that perceives other countries as friends or enemies. “From Fu Manchu to Kung Fu Panda chronicles the struggle within Hollywood film to come to grips with American ambivalence toward China as a nation against the backdrop of its current economic and geopolitical ascendancy on the world stage. Reaching back to early film portrayals of Chinatown, Christian missionaries, warlords, and perverse villains bent on world domination, Greene moves from the ‘yellow peril’ to the ‘red menace’ as she examines WWII and Cold War cinema. She also explores the range of film fantasies circulating today, from films about Tibet to Chinese American independent features and the global popularity of kung fu cartoons. This accessible book allows these films to speak to the post 9-11/Occupy Wall Street generation and makes a welcome contribution to debates about Hollywood Orientalism and transnational Chinese film connections.” —Gina Marchetti, author of The Chinese Diaspora on American Screens: Race, Sex, and Cinema “A significant work of filmography, Naomi Greene’s book explores the exotic, at times menacing, but always fantastic images of China flickering on the silver screen of the American imagination. The author writes lucidly, jargon-free, and with the sure-footedness of a seasoned scholar.” —Yunte Huang, author of Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History

Author : Eve Mullen
Publisher : Waxmann Verlag
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 3830960530

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The American Occupation of Tibetan Buddhism by Eve Mullen Pdf

Author : Martin Scorsese
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1578060729

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Martin Scorsese by Martin Scorsese Pdf

Collected interviews with the man who has been called the greatest living American film director

Author : Michael Mathiesen
Publisher : Realia - E Pluribus Unum
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781620955642

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Realia by Michael Mathiesen Pdf

The God Particle as it is called, or technically, the Higg's boson, is discovered in CERNS Large Hadron Collider, in 2012. The next breakthrough comes in 2042, when Quantum Physicists learn how to disintegrate a human being and accelerate his atoms to the speed of light and thereby interact with one or more God Particles in the follow-up machine, the Large Mass Collider. 'Realia' is the name the author has given to this region of sub-atomia where everything important in the universe is controlled. In our story, the Chinese and American governments, each scramble to send an atomonaut into quantum space to learn if the God Particle can provide them with enough power to control the world. The God Bomb is pursued by both sides from opposite ends of the planet. At the same time, Kundun Gyaltso, a ten-year-old Tibetan monk, pursues the truth about God's particles through an amazing new 3-D mandala software he has created and that is eventually downloaded by nearly every computer device on the planet. The experience rocks the world of any audience he entertains until he finally performs the most important 3-D mandala concert in history. Who will win the race to control the universe? The powers in government that now rule our world? Or will it be the power of peace and love and human kindness. The ending, the most mind-blowing in history, will surprise and amaze you. Everybody wins, however, the way that everyone wins is through one of the most profound questions ever asked. Does anyone get a Do-Over? Whether you want a do-over or not, the answer is in your particular place in 'Realia'.

Author : M. Louise Heydt
Publisher : Sunstone Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781611393538

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Going to the Dogs by M. Louise Heydt Pdf

Think you know your animal friends? The author did too. Then she met Laura Stinchfield, who calls herself The Pet Psychic, and her world became enriched in ways she never knew were possible. You will meet Kundun, selfless, big-hearted pit bull-greyhound rescue, Genji, a spirited Paso Fino gelding, rambunctious Rasa and shy, abused Tara, Catahoula Leopard Hound sisters who tell their stories in their own words with the help of animal communicator, Laura, and their mom. The journey begins with a move from the wilds of northern New Mexico to the Ojai Valley in California. Experience this family’s joy, pain, love, loss and the author’s odyssey of caring for them as all age and confront their limitations, traumas, hopes, dreams and absolute devotion to each other. You will cry. You will laugh. And you will never think about animals in the same way again. The sudden illness and untimely death of a member of this animal family leads to conversations on the Other Side and introduces the reader to an alternate reality so surprising that it may completely change whatever one believes Heaven is.

Author : Mark Conard
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813172552

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The Philosophy of Martin Scorsese by Mark Conard Pdf

Academy Award–winning director Martin Scorsese is one of the most significant American filmmakers in the history of cinema. Although best known for his movies about gangsters and violence, such as Mean Streets, Goodfellas, Casino, and Taxi Driver, Scorsese has addressed a much wider range of themes and topics in the four decades of his career. In The Philosophy of Martin Scorsese, an impressive cast of contributors explores the complex themes and philosophical underpinnings of Martin Scorsese’s films. The essays concerning Scorsese’s films about crime and violence investigate the nature of friendship, the ethics of vigilantism, and the nature of unhappiness. The authors delve deeply into the minds of Scorsese’s tortured characters and explore how the men and women he depicts grapple with moral codes and their emotions. Several of the essays explore specific themes in individual films. The authors describe how Scorsese addresses the nuances of social mores and values in The Age of Innocence, the nature of temptation and self-sacrifice in The Last Temptation of Christ and Bringing Out the Dead, and the complexities of innovation and ambition in The Aviator. Other chapters in the collection examine larger philosophical questions. In a world where everything can be interpreted as meaningful, Scorsese at times uses his films to teach audiences about the meaning in life beyond the everyday world depicted in the cinema. For example, his films touching on religious subjects, such as Kundun and The Last Temptation of Christ, allow the director to explore spiritualism and peaceful ways of responding to the chaos in the world.Filled with penetrating insights on Scorsese’s body of work, The Philosophy of Martin Scorsese shows the director engaging with many of the most basic questions about our humanity and how we relate to one another in a complex world.

Author : Christopher B. Barnett,Clark J. Elliston
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789004411401

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Scorsese and Religion by Christopher B. Barnett,Clark J. Elliston Pdf

Scorsese and Religion explores and analyzes the religious vision of filmmaker Martin Scorsese’s oeuvre, showing that Scorsese cannot be properly understood without reflecting on the ways that his religious interests are expressed in and through his art.

Author : Tenzin Dickie
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-29
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789357080903

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The Penguin Book of Modern Tibetan Essays by Tenzin Dickie Pdf

The Penguin Book of Modern Tibetan Essays is a groundbreaking anthology of modern Tibetan non-fiction. This unprecedented collection celebrates the art of the modern Tibetan essay and comprises some of the best Tibetan writers working today in Tibetan, English and Chinese. There are essays on lost friends, stolen inheritances, prison notes and secret journeys from-and to-Tibet, but there are also essays on food, the Dalai Lama's Gar dancer, love letters, lotteries and the Prince of Tibet. The collection offers a profound commentary not just on the Tibetan nation and Tibetan exile, but also on the romance, comedy and tragedy of modern Tibetan life. For this anthology, editor and translator Tenzin Dickie has commissioned and collected 28 essays from 22 Tibetan writers, including Woeser, Jamyang Norbu, Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, Pema Bhum and Lhashamgyal. This book of personal essays by Tibetan writers is a landmark addition to contemporary Tibetan letters as well as a significant contribution to global literature.

Author : J. Daccache,B. Valeriano
Publisher : Springer
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137290489

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Hollywood's Representations of the Sino-Tibetan Conflict by J. Daccache,B. Valeriano Pdf

Using film as a lens though which we can witness the global transformations in politics, economy, culture, and communication, this book analyzes Hollywood's shift in its depictions of China and Tibet.

Author : John A. Zukowski
Publisher : The Pilgrim Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780829800456

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100 Spiritual Movies to See before You Die by John A. Zukowski Pdf

Spiritual themes are common in movies: The unconventional savior. The hero’s journey. The redemption tale. The balance of creation. Journalist John A. Zukowski reflects on twelve major spiritual themes in the world of cinema, discussing films from Dead Man Walking to Bruce Almighty, from Groundhog Day to Chariots of Fire, and many more. See them all—read them all—before you die!

Author : Elizabeth Cody Kimmel
Publisher : Flash Point
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781429996938

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Boy on the Lion Throne by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel Pdf

From humble beginnings to world leader, a new biography focuses on the childhood of the Dalai Lama, as his country remains at the center of the world stage. On a quiet winter morning in 1937, several men on horseback rode into the tiny Tibetan village of Taktser. Disguised as peasants, the high lamas were on a secret mission--soon they would identify 3-year-old Lhamo Thondup as the 14th reincarnation of the Dalai Lama. With a foreword by the Dalai Lama himself, this dramatic narrative follows his remarkable childhood, illuminating the story of Tibet and introducing a remarkable world figure to a new generation.

Author : Colin Mackenzie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10433600

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Life in the mission, the camp and the zenáná, or, six years in India by Colin Mackenzie Pdf