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THE WOMEN OF TIBET FILM PROJECT The Women of Tibet Film Trilogy will consist of three one-hour documentary films, revealing potent historical moments of past and contemporary Tibet. The film Gyalyum Chemo-The Great Mother is complete and is airing on PBS television stations in the US. It will be available shortly on DVD. Filmmaker Rosemary Rawcliffe is a founding member of The Dalai Lama Foundation and we are happy to be counted among the supporters of this important work. To learn more about the films, and to find out how you can join people all over the world in making this very special gift, visit the Women of Tibet website.
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Incense Broken, Country Lost tells the story of one of the great movements of nonviolent resistance in modern history, in which an estimated 15,000 unarmed Tibetan women took to the streets of Lhasa in March, 1959, to oppose the violent occupation of their country by the Communist Chinese. The surviving exiled elders are the last generation of women left to tell the story, andto transmit the cultural legacy they carry. These women, having survived decades in prison and perilous escapes across the Himalayas, along with their daughters and granddaughters, today, have become the architects and builders of a new Tibet in exile.
Gyalyum Chemo—The Great Mother explores the Great Mother Archetype and the life of Dekyi Tsering, the late mother of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. The film interweaves the story of two Mothers—a Universal Great Mother that lives within each of us and Dekyi Tsering, a simple village woman who became known as Gyalyum Chemo, the Great Mother of the Tibetan nation. Dekyi Tsering’s story is uniquely Tibetan, yet it shares the same core qualities of all universal Great Mother stories: loss and resurrection, love and sacrifice, and the courage to survive.
Women of Spirit tells the story of Tibetan spirituality from the unique perspective of Tibetan and Western Buddhist nuns and laywomen who have chosen to follow a spiritual life-path. Rare interviews with Khandro Rinpoche, Sakya Jetsun Chimey Luding and other significant Tibetan and Western practitioners, will document and reflect upon the incomparable will of the human spirit to survive and thrive. The film also explores the radical changes these women experience as they strive to preserve an ancient culture and spiritual tradition in the face of 21st century realities.