Events for UB Students

See all the events surrounding the Dalai Lama’s visit

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Not sure if you’re interested?
Start here:

• www.buffalo.edu/dalai_lama

• “Why the Dalai Lama? Why Now?”
  Thursday August 24, 2006, 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., UB Anderson Gallery, Martha Jackson Place
  Frank Howard, Director of the Amitabha Foundation and UB Law alumnus | Details

Definitely interested?

Sign up for this course by September 8, 2006

• AS 394/RSP 394
  Buddhism
  Professor Jeannette Ludwig
  Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 1:00 to1:50 p.m. 322 Clemens Hall | Details

Now get started. Here’s an easy schedule for UB students!

• Pick up your free student ticket.

• Go to a free movie. Eat free popcorn.

• Help UB get ready. Make a peace flag.

• Think of Questions for the Dalai Lama

• See the Monks in Residence

• See the dance, hear the music, heal the world.

• Go back to the movies.

• Start the experience.

1. Pick up your free student ticket.

   September 5 through 11, 2006 | Details

2. Go to a free movie. Eat free popcorn.

   Learn how a UB alumnus went from UB to 17,000 feet to help save a vibrant but oppressed culture.

   • “Vajra Sky Over Tibet”
     Friday September 15, 2006
     5:30 p.m., Student Union Theater
     

     To see a trailer of “Vajra Sky,” click here (Quicktime or Windows Media Player required)

   An exclusive showing for UB students only (student ID required.) Free popcorn!

   “Vajra Sky Over Tibet” is a mesmerizing film that takes us into forbidden Tibet, directed by John Bush (UB alumnus).

   John Bush, a UB alum and executive director of Direct Pictures’ “Vajra Sky Over Tibet: Journey Into a Radiant and Endangered World,” filmed this unique documentary during a pilgrimage to Tibet.The mesmerizing film documents the beauty of Tibet, the indomitable faith of its Buddhist community and the ultimate threat to its survival.

   The film has received the endorsement of the Dalai Lama.

   While most documentaries about Tibet are actually filmed in the exile communities of Nepal, India or Bhutan, “Vajra Sky” is one of the few entirely shot inside Tibet.

   “We did not ask for permission from the [Chinese] authorities and none was given,” said John Bush.

   As a western Buddhist filmmaker, Bush was allowed unprecedented access by the Tibetan leaders.

   Filming only in natural light, Bush traveled inconspicuously as part of a two-person crew, with a Tibetan guide and driver. The movie takes us through a 17,000-foot mountain pass into a land of snow peaks, turquoise lakes and golden blossoms, as the nephew of the Dalai Lama narrates the spiritual and political stories of Tibet. The documentary attempts to convey why this endangered culture is worth saving.

   Not a UB student? See “Vajra Sky” at:

   • Dipson Market Arcade Film & Arts Centre
     September 8 through 14, 2006
     639 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203 – (716)-855-3022

     To see a trailer of “Vajra Sky,” click here (Quicktime or Windows Media Player required)

   Read more about “Vajra Sky Over Tibet” and the fight of the Tibetan people to retain their identity in the face of oppression: www.vajrasky.com

3. Help UB get ready. Make a peace flag.

   Help us make 5,000 peace flags to hang on campus to welcome the Dalai Lama.

   • Thursday, August 24, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., 240 Student Union Lobby

   • Sunday, August 27, 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Student Union Lobby

   • Monday, August 28; Wednesday, August 30; Wednesday, September 6; Wednesday, September 13: 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., Student Union Lobby

   • Tuesday, September 19, 10:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., tent next to Stadium Lot

   • Click here for more information.

5. See the Monks in Residence

   September 16 through 19, UB Art Gallery, CFA

   See Tibetan Buddhist Monks working on the amazingly intricate Sand Mandala

6. See the dance, hear the music, heal the world.

   Sunday, September 17, 3 p.m., Mainstage, CFA

   Sacred Music, Sacred Dance for World Healing.

   A performance by the famed multiphonic singers of Drepung Loseling Monastery. Endorsed by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama as a means of promoting world peace and healing through sacred performing art, the monks have performed in many of America's greatest concert venues, including sellout performances in Carnegie Hall and at Lincoln Center.

   Tickets are $10 for students.

7. Go back to the movies.

   Monday September 18

   Martin Scorsese’s “Kundun,”, 8:45 p.m. to10:30 p.m., Lippes Concert Hall, UUAB Theater and the Screening Room.

8. Start the experience.

   OM MA NI PAD MEY HUNG
   from "Chants to Awaken the Buddhist Heart,” Lama Surya Das

   Tuesday September 19
   8 a.m. Meditate
   Wake up with meditation. Join UB alumnus and Buddhist teacher Lama Surya Das in the Drama Theatre for a 45-minute meditation session.

   8:30 a.m. Putting 9/11 in perspective: the prospects for peace
   Learn how the Dalai Lama’s message of peace has relevance to our own national crisis. Venue TBD

   9:30 a.m. Science and Spirituality panel
   What’s the state of the relationship between Science and Spirituality? Venue TBD.

   10 a.m. Peace Corps volunteer roundtable
   Learn how UB Peace Corps volunteers made their education work for peace. Venue TBD.

   10:30 a.m. See the sand mandala...
   . . .and learn why it’s significant from a monk of the Drepung Loseling Monastery, CFA

   11 a.m. View Dalai Lama Artifacts
   Undergraduate Library, Law Library, and Lockwood Library

   11:30 a.m. Get ready to go to the UB Stadium!
   If you are driving, leave home early. UB’s North Campus will be busy so please be patient. Remember what you learned at morning meditation.

   1 p.m. Enjoy Tibetan music and other performances at the UB Stadium
   Includes famed composer Philip Glass, a Tibetan flutist, and the hauntingly beautiful sounds and sights of the Drepung Loseling monks.

   3 p.m. See His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama
   Come early. Share it with your friends. You will talk about it years later.

   7 p.m. What did the Dalai Lama say?
   Lama Surya Das discusses the meaning of his message for today’s college student. Stick around for the movie. Drama Theater, CFA.

   8:15 p.m. Go back to the movies.
   "Phun Anu Thanu" (“Two Exile Brothers”), a new feature film by Tashi Wangchuk, Tibetan alumnus of UB's Department of Media Study, with Professor Sarah Elder. Drama Theatre, CFA.