August 2009 Show

Unmistaken Child: The Buddhist con­cept of rein­car­na­tion, while both mys­te­ri­ous and enchant­ing, is hard for most west­ern­ers to grasp. An Israeli filmmaker’s new doc­u­men­tary illus­trates the power of that con­cept and the mixed reac­tions from Westerners grap­pling with this very dif­fer­ent per­spec­tive on life after death.

The will to sur­vive: One man’s amaz­ing escape from Tibet. Tsewang Dhondup’s story is the stuff of leg­end, and might well end up woven into local lore and mar­veled at by Tibetan boys for gen­er­a­tions to come.

Open Mind: No self, no prob­lem — an inter­view with Anam Thubten Rinpoche.

News Desk: Tibetans in east­ern Tibet are allowed to com­mem­o­rate the Dalai Lama’s birth­day, plague quar­an­tine in Tibet lifted, and Uighur activism.

The Power of One: How you can help Tibetan film­maker Dhondup Wangchen.

Audio Postcard: The peo­ple of the remote val­ley of Spiti, India, wel­come the Dalai Lama with trum­pets and yak-​​skin drums.