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PROGRAMS 2010
April 2010
VOICES FROM DISASTER: Tibetans in exile desperately try to reach their loved ones in
the area affecte by the Tibet quake...THE DISSIDENT LAMA: A new autobiography about
life as a high religious figure in China's Tibet...THE ICON PAINTER: Street artist Shepherd Fairey who created the HOPE Obama
poster turns his brush on a new subject--the Dalai Lama...OPEN MIND: Fake teachers and how to spot one...
March 2010
THE TIBETAN DA VINCI: A Tibetan monk who taught himself advanced computer programming
in his monastery dormitory...NEWS DESK: THE UPRISING GOES UNDERGROUND: Banned writing
from Tibet...THE BUDDHIST VIEW OF REALITY:
How things really are - from a Buddhist perspective...
February 2010
A Buddhist approach to dealing with depression...NEWS DESK: What Google`s threat
to leave China might mean for human rights activists...An analysis of Barack Obama`s first presidential meeting with the Dalai
Lama...and in our AUDIO POSTCARD: Techung's song "Auspicious Star" written to mark Losar, the Tibetan New Year...
January 2010
What Google`s threat to leave China might mean for human rights activists...an analysis of
Barack Obama`s first presidential meeting with the Dalai Lama...and in our Open Mind series we explore a Buddhist approach
to dealing with depression.
PROGRAMS 2009
December 2009
On the heels of the Copenhagen climate conference, the role of Tibet in global warming...TIBETAN
BLOGS: Voices from the Inside, blogs open a window into life on the ground inside Tibet...and in our OPEN MIND series, becoming
aware of our buttons with Thubten Chodron...
November 2009
Our Open Mind series continues with how to transform our problems into opportunities - practical
advice from Tenzin Palmo, a Buddhist nun from England...NEWS DESK; CENSORSHIP BEYOND BORDERS: When Chinese officials in
Bangladesh put pressure on a local gallery to shut down a photography exhibition of Tibetans in exile, organizers refused
to give in...MUSIC AS COMMON GROUND: Tibetans and Chinese go beyond politics to find common ground through music at the
first ever joint musical performance by the Tibetan band JJI Exile brothers and Xiao Bing from Beijing...
October 2009
Pema Chödrön introduces a rare Tibeatn teaching on `shenpa`, this ineffable quality...TECHNOLOGIES
OF LIBERATION; A FORCE MORE POWERFUL? itech expert Patrick Meier speaks about these new technologies and wheter they are
really changing the balance of power between governments and the people...TALES IN THE SILENCE: this is a joint effort by
a photojournalist and an anthropologist highlighting the lives of five Tibetan former political prisoners who are struggling
to rebuild their lives outsite of Tibet...and on POWER OF ONE: President Obama`s decision not to meet with the Dalai Lama
while he is in Washington has raised concerns over his commitment to human rights...
August 2009
Interview with Israeli filmmaker Nati Baratz about his new documentary
UNMISTAKEN CHILD that follows the search for the reincarnation of a Tibetan master; THE WILL TO SURVIVE: One Man's
Amazing Escape From Tibet; OPEN MIND: No Self No Problem an interview with Anam Thubten...
June 2009
TIANANMEN 20 YEARS ON: The remarkable secret journal of a discredited Chinese premier offers
new insights; TIBET: A CLIMATE EMERGENCY "TIPPING POINT" with English Biologist John Stanley; OPEN MIND: THE BACKDOOR
TO ENLIGHTENMENT an interview with Za Choeje Rinpoche...
May 2009
DOES DEMOCRACY IN CHINA EQUAL FREEDOM IN TIBET? Interview with Chinese democracy advocate
CHIN JIN; TIBET CONNECTION EXCLUSIVE: The Dalai Lama's reaction to the news out of Tibet that five Tibetans now have been
sentenced to death for their roles in the 2008 protests in Lhasa; OPEN MIND:
THE DALAI LAMA'S TIMELESS WISDOM FOR CHALLENGING TIMES: Special Report...
April 2009
GHOSTNET: Interview with security development specialist GREG WALTON about how some
suspicious activity on the computer at the private office of the Dalai Lama led to the discovery of an international computer
spy ring; OPEN MIND: MIND OVER MONEY? What happens when the 'Rich Dad' company head teams up with his sister, a Tibetan Buddhist
nun...
March 2009
WHAT'S ON THE DALAI LAMA'S MIND? An interview with essayist PICO IYER; WITNESS TO HISTORY:
What Dolma saw on those fateful days in Lhasa in March 1959; THE SERF QUESTION: An interview with DR. JOHN POWERS; TIBET UPDATE
REPORT: What Tibetans in Tibet are feeling...
February 2009
China's revolutionary manifesto CHARTER 08 with Professor Perry Link; a Chinese journalist
changes her mind about Tibet; the art of DREAM YOGA with Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche; NEWS ROUND UP: Tibetan youth dies
in custody; Chinese media edits President Obama's speech, and more...
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PROGRAMS 2008
December 2008
An INTERVIEW with DAVID CROSBY; Story of the CIA-backed Tibetan Freedom Fighters with MIKEL
DUNHAM; WOESER: The poet who forgot to be afraid; THE YEAR THAT WAS: Prominent Tibetans and activists look back; VOICES FROM
EXILE: A young Tibetan artist on his conflict between compassion and activism...
November 2008
Report on historic SPECIAL MEETING of Tibetan exiles; writer and critic JAMYANG NORBU
speaks out on the special meeting; Buddhist teacher REGINALD RAY on his new book 'Touching Enlightenment'; TIBET YOUTH RADIO
on what the election of Barack Obama means to Tibetan youth...
October 2008
The Spanish High Court's landmark case against top-ranking Chinese officials; THE CANDIDATES
& TIBET: Obama and McCain's position on the Tibet issue; ARRESTED IN TIBET: A Taiwanese-American speaks about her terrifying
ordeal in Tibet this Summer; OPEN MIND: SOGYAL RINPOCHE on death & impermanence...
September 'Fall Review Special'
Women from a homeless shelter in Washington DC describe
their visit from the Dalai Lama...The story of a homeless addict who became a buddhist monk...Author
and scholar B. ALAN WALLACE speaks about the connection between science and Buddhism...FROM THE NEWS DESK: We hear from Mikel Dunham
about the recent deportation order from the Nepal government...
August 'Olympic Special' 2008
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH Media Coordinator Minky Worden on the legacy
of the Olympics...The TIBETAN OLYMPICS: How exiled Tibetan took matters into their own hands...CHINA'S WAR ON MONKS with
The Daily Telegraph's Richard Spencer..LEAVING FEAR BEHIND: Tibet Youth Radio reports on this documentary about what Tibetans
in Tibet think of the Beijing Games...
July 2008
TRACKING THE STEEL DRAGON: How China's economic policies
and the new railway are transforming Tibet...ABRAHM LUSTGARTEN, on his latest book: China's Great Train...VOYAGE TO TIBET:
Senior Producer Christal Smith's travels to Tibet...behind the public face of the Dalai Lama with MANUEL BAUER...INTO
THE HEART OF THE WORLD with explorer Ian Baker...
June 2008
Bob Thurman on his latest book 'WHY THE DALAI LAMA MATTERS' ...WHEN WORDS ARE NOT
ENOUGH: Tibetan kids express their experiences through art...MUSICIAN KEN LEE on his experience as a Chinese-American in the
Tibetan exiled communities of India KARMAPA IN AMERICA: Special Report...ASK TENZIN: How Buddhism came to Tibet...
May 2008
Writer
PICO IYER on his personal connection to Tibet; BLINDSIGHT: Documentary
filmmaker Lucy Walker and the remarkable journey of 6 blind Tibetan children up one of Tibet's highest mountains; A Chinese-American on her recent eye-opening trip to Beijing; REPORT from DHARAMSALA: Tibetan monks pray for Chinese quake
victims, the first Tibetan protester since March 10th to escape into exile, the Tibetan Olympics, and more...
April 2008
Interview with Chinese student GRACE WANG; UNREPORTED STORIES: Tibetan human
rights group struggles to protect the lives of its sources; thoughts from a Tibetan government representative; TIBET THROUGH
CHINESE EYES with Dr. John Powers; OPEN MIND with TSULTRIM ALLIONE; Call to action from ROBERT THURMAN
March 2008
WITNESS TO UPRISING: first-hand account of the protests in Lhasa, Tibet; SPECIAL
REPORT: Overview of the recent protests in Tibet; THESE DAYS IN DHARAMSALA: Sound Images From Exile; RETURN TO TIBET? 100
monks begin a walk that they hope will take them back to their homeland; NEW DHARMA SERIES: OPEN MIND: Turning Poison into
Medicine with PEMA CHÖDRON
January 2008
Choosing the NEXT DALAI LAMA with
Tibet expert ROBBIE BARNETT; Contemporary Tibetan artists defying tradition; Rose Parade protest: ASK TENZIN: The four schools
of Tibetan Buddhism [repeated from last month: Everest mountaineer LUIS BENITEZ on being a witness to murder on the Nangpa
Pass; 10 Questions for the DALAI LAMA with filmmaker RICK RAY]
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PROGRAMS 2007
December 2007
Everest mountaineer LUIS BENITEZ describes being a witness to murder on Nangpa
Pass; 10 Questions for the DALAI LAMA with filmmaker RICK RAY; Guess Whose Coming to Dinner? THE GYUTO MONKS!; Training midwives
on the Tibetan plateau; ASK TENZIN: What's unique about Tibetan Buddhsim?
November 2007
Interview with DAVID COSBY; ROSE BOWL PARADE protesters gear up for New Year;
The DALAI LAMA visits a women's homeless shelter in Washington DC; JOURNEY TO NAKO/Part2; ASK TENZIN: The Meaning &
Significance of the Dalai Lama
October 2007
Interview with long-time Tibet supporter Rep. TOM LANTOS; SPECIAL REPORT from Washington DC on the DALAI
LAMA'S CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL; Interview with LHADON TETHONG & TENZIN DORJEE of Students for a Free Tibet; the growing
unrest in Lithang, Eastern Tibet;
September 2007
The question of full ordination for Tibetan nuns; TIBET YOUTH
RADIO: The Spirit of '59; Journey to Nako/PART 1; SPECIAL FEATURE: Meeting Milarepa--Tibet's yogi saint; ASK TENZIN:
What is a sentient being?
August 2007 Summer Review Special
July 2007
May 2007
April 2007
March 2007
February 2007
January 2007
PROGRAMS 2006
November 2006
September 2006
August 2006
July 2006
May 2006
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