from ‘His Holiness the Karmapa: The technology of the heart’ on TED.com: His Holiness the Karmapa talks about how he was discovered to be the reincarnation of a revered figure in Tibetan Buddhism. In telling his story, he urges us to work on not just technology and design, but the…
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation‘s Eric Campbell managed to get a rare interview with His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, for the Foreign Correspondent program, as shown in this piece entitled “After the Dalai Lama“.
From Tibet Custom: A shoe was thrown at Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao in Cambridge last week, the protester threw his shoe in outrage shouting “We should not prostrate ourselves to this dictator”.
From Phayul.com: Australian and Chinese officials will meet on Monday for the Twelfth Australia-China Human Rights Dialogue, originally scheduled for late last year. Meanwhile authorities in Lhasa have arrested dozens of Tibetans as part of a renewed military crackdown ahead of the 50th Anniversary of the 1959 Tibetan Uprising on…
(Source: Boing Boing) From the BFI National Film archive, via YouTube: “Tibetan Scenes was made by Tsien-Lien Shen in the early 1940s – he was resident Chinese Commissioner in Lhasa from 1942-47. The colour film records many of the ceremonial events that took place in Lhasa, including the New Year…
 Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center [kml_flashembed movie=”http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=8494118830483585396″ width=”400″ height=”326″ wmode=”transparent” /] [UPDATE] The original video has vanished with the demise of Google Video. Here are some others I have found on YouTube.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=sbB6r4p6BJk
https://youtube.com/watch?v=3k6PjwsJ7LQ