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August 2011 Show

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Cultural per­for­mance in Dharamsala, India. Photo by Lhakpa Kyizom.

Dalai Lama gives ini­ti­a­tion for world peace: On July 6, his 76th birth­day, His Holiness the Dalai Lama began the Kalachakra for World Peace in Washington, DC. Pema Dhondup was there.

Tibetans elect a new leader: From Dharamsala, Lhakpa Kyizom reports on the recent elec­tion in exile for a new prime min­is­ter and what it means for Tibetans.

A fem­i­nist mile­stone for Tibetan Buddhists: No woman has ever earned the pres­ti­gious Tibetan Buddhist title of geshe - until now. Open Mind pro­ducer Peter Aronson talks to Geshe Kelsang Wangmo.

Celebrating “peace­ful lib­er­a­tion”: Executive pro­ducer Rebecca Novick speaks with Alison Reynolds, Executive Director of the International Tibet Network, about how top-​​level Chinese Communist Party lead­ers cel­e­brated the 60th anniver­sary of Tibet’s “peace­ful liberation”.


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