Penn State Students for a Free Tibet Schedule
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Regular Meetings are Tuesday evenings
at 7:00 pm in 320 Willard Bldg., University Park, PA
As a rule we alternate weekly between doing business and having a speaker, a discussion, or watching a video.
All are welcome, please stop by.
October's Meeting Schedule
- Oct 6: Readings from Palden Gyatso's book "Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk" and organization for the monks coming Oct. 11,12,13.
- The next tuesday meeting (13th) is being moved to Sunday the 11th so we can have dinner with the monks.
- Oct. 20: Organize for Palden Gyatso's speach.
- Oct. 27: With Palden speaking the next day the "meeting" will probably involve putting up flyers for his talk.
- Wed. Oct 28 at 7pm in 119 Osmond Lab:
We are extremely honored and excited to be hosting the Venerable Palden Gyatso. Palden-la is a buddhist monk who was arrested shortly after the March 10, 1959 uprising in Lhasa and, although he committed no crime we in the west would recognize, spent the next 33 years of his life in prison, most of that time subject to the most brutal treatment imaginable.
Fortunately, and at the urging of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Palden-la has written a book entitled "Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk" describing his life both before the Chinese invasion and after. He is now devoting his life to informing the world about the situation in Tibet.
We are pleased to give him an opportunity to speak here. We are also fortunate to host human rights author Ms. Joy Blakeslee who has written a book about a Tibetan Woman, Ama Adhe: The Voice that Remembers, which describes a similar fate suffered by a simple Khampa wife and mother.
You can read about Palden Gyatso and his works at:
Short Biography of Palden Gyatso
Fire under the Snow: The Testimony of a Tibetan Prisoner
- Spring '99
We hope to be hosting Joy Blakeslee for a talk of her own which should be of interest not just to Tibet people but also to anyone interested in women's rights around the world and in minority rights in this country. Please stay tuned for more information.
Past Events
Things we did earlier this year and last year.
FALL '97
- Pamphlet hand-out at weekend showings of "Seven Years In Tibet".
Review of "Seven Years In Tibet"
Reviews of "Kundun"
Reviews of "Kundun"
- Oct 28:Meeting in Atherton Hall at 9:00 to watch PBS's Frontline "Dreams of Tibet"
In "Dreams of Tibet," airing Tuesday, October 28, at 9 P.M., on WPSX, FRONTLINE correspondent and China-watcher Orville
Schell, who traveled secretly to Tibet for FRONTLINE in 1994, explores the West's intense interest in the fate of Tibet. The film looks at the growing awareness of an endangered Tibetan religious and cultural heritage in the face of Chinese repression.
- Oct 29: Melissa, Tim, Ben, Khyber, Steve, Stephan, Paul, and Tsering in Washington D.C. national rally during Chinese President Jiang Jemin's visit
- Nov 20&21, 9am-3pm Postcard & Information Table and "Tibetan Freedom Concert" CD raffle in front of Willard Bldg.
- Nov 23, 3-11 pm Sarah, Tsering and Poster at the Festival for Women's Rights, Hetzel Union Bldg.
- Nov 23, 6:00-6:30 pm Radio Show on WEHR (East Halls Radio Station)
SPRING '98
- On Sunday, March 1 a display table about Tibetan culture at the International Fair in the HUB.
- On Tuesday, March 3 at our regular meeting showe a film about the Dalai Lama entitled "Compassion in Exile."
- On Wed., March 4 we set up a table jointly with Amnesty International in the HUB basement all day (8am-5pm).
- On March 10, Tibetan Uprising Day four of us traveled to New York to take part in a rally at the UN headquarters in support of Tibetan rights.
- On Thursday April 7 we sponsored a free showing on campus of "Seven Years in Tibet"
- On Sunday, April 19 we to set up an info. table along with eco-action at the Earth Day Festival.
- Our big event of spring semester 1998 was the Drepung Loseling Monk Tour on April 26 and 27.
- Sunday April 26:
- Talk with Q&A, 104 Thomas Bldg at 1:00
- Monks met students individually in dining halls for Sunday dinner
- Monday April 27:
- Tent on HUB lawn all day featuring a sand mandala, chanting and other Buddhist teachings
- Dinner with monks at Wesleyan Center from 6:30 to 8:30, over 100 people turned out filling the hall. It was a warm and friendly time with an enormous quantity of very good food cooked by our founder Tsering Yangkey and crack cooking staff.
FALL '98
- Oct 11-13: We hosted three monks from the Gaden Tehor monastery, re-established in exile in India. For background information please hit Gaden Tehor which was written for their visit to Harvard. For an introduction to the individual monks go here.
- Sun. Oct 11:
- 4 pm: SFT dinner (private)
- 7pm 102 Thomas Bldg: lecture and meditation training
This went really well(once they got here), something like 100 people came and asked questions for hours, even though we took a break specifically so people could leave.
- Mon. Oct. 12:
- 10am-5pm at Holmes Foster Park next to State College High School, mandala demonstration
A beautiful day in the park, and plenty of students
- 7:30pm at Old Main, Service for Indigenous Peoples' Day followed by a candlelight vigil at the campus gates
Geshe-la gave a dignified and beautiful speach.
- Tue. Oct. 13:Busy, Busy, Busy
- 8:45-9:30 World Religon Class, Delta program, State College High School
- 9:45-10:30 World Religons,121 Thomas Bldg., Philip Jenkins, Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies and History
- 10:30-11:00 111 Bouke Bldg., Prof. Van Herik
- 11:15-12:30 Eastern Philosophy, 129 Waring Commons, Prof. Smits
- 1:45-2:15 162 Willard Bldg., Prof. Van Herik
- depart at 3:00 pm. We had a really nice departure ceremony on the steps of Old Main.
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