February 2012 Show

This month, on the Tibet Connection:

THE FIRE THIS TIME: As we went into pro­duc­tion, 22 Tibetans had set them­selves on fire in Tibet, almost all of them monks and nuns. Tibetan pro­ducer Lhakpa Kyizom reports on the cur­rent situation.

THE EXILE FILES: Part 1 - “Outlandish” - The first in a new series by Tibetan writer Thupten Kelsang Dakpa as he tries to make sense of sex, gen­der issues and rela­tion­ships in his own com­mu­nity in India and dis­cov­ers con­tra­dic­tions, con­tro­versy and con­fu­sion along the path to his enlightenment.

BEHIND BARS: INSIDE & OUT: Venerable Aileen Barry, a Buddhist nun from Ireland and for­merly of the Liberation Prison Project, Australia, talks about spir­i­tu­al­ity behind bars — her work with prison inmates and their appre­ci­a­tion for sin­cere human contact.

THE POWER OF ONE: Rebecca Novick speaks with Executive Director of the International Tibet Network, Alison Reynolds, about the self-​​immolations in Tibet that are tak­ing place ever more fre­quently, what is inspir­ing them and how you can help.