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Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama walks through a crowd of devotees as he arrives at the Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts in Dharamsala, India to attend the annual Shoton Festival. Shoton literaly translates as yoghurt festival during which traditional Tibetan operas are performed and yoghurt is distributed among celebrants. (Photo: Strdel/AFP/Getty Images) |
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Voices on the Radio
Robert Thurman
Thurman is a professor at Columbia University. He was ordained a Tibetan Buddhist monk in 1964 and co-founded the Tibet House in New York. |
Ken Storm
Storm is an explorer who followed a century of Western explorers drawn to Tibet's forbidding, fantastic geography and discovered an elaborate sacred landscape hidden within. |
Thupten Dadak
Dadak is a musician and former Gyuto monk. He demonstrates and tells stories about the ritual music of Tibet. |
Siddiq Wahid is a Muslim author, scholar, and businessman who has spent part of his childhood in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, with a uniquely intimate perspective on the Dalai Lama and the religious sensibilities of his people.
Practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism: Penny Paster of Wisconsin, Lama Palden Drolma of San Francisco, and Tashi Gangzey of Minnesota |
