January 2008 Newsletter from
The Dalai Lama Foundation

Staying Connected While Mobile

La Fundación en Español

New Books and Video

“And We’ll All Go Together”

Upcoming Events

Staying Connected While Mobile

You know that a mobile phone is much more than just a phone. It is a pervasive part of life today. And the Foundation is always making use of cutting edge technologies to spread the message of ethics and peace.

The Foundation uses TXT/SMS messaging as the backbone of two unique services it provides. CharityFocus.org provides a daily inspirational email, Daily Good, to anyone who subscribes. The Foundation has for several years encouraged our registered users to subscribe to a “forwarded” version of this service, which we send each day. In addition to receiving Daily Good by email, you can also receive it as TXT/SMS message (on days when it’s less than 160 characters). Imagine waking up each morning to an inspirational message on your mobile phone from Daily Good and the Dalai Lama Foundation! Sign up today to receive the Daily Good via email, TXT or both.

Beginning this month, we have a community-based mobile “experience” called Making Peace that is primarily “played” thru mobile phones. It’s linked to The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama,
and takes place in your home or community wherever in the world you may be. You don’t have to go anywhere. And you can participate by yourself or as a group. The “game” consists of a series of four reflections on peace. At each stage, you send a word, phrase or photo that expresses your thoughts or illustrates your experience. The photos are incorporated into a mosaic that may be viewed online as well as at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, in San Francisco, where The Missing Peace is currently showing.

To participate, text the word “IDEAS” to peace@tmpp.org or visit peace.tmpp.org on the web.

The website of the Foundation itself is partially available via mobile phone web browsers. Many phones with large screens will be able to view the website directly, but those with small screens will find that there are abbreviated pages available. Try visiting the Foundation from your mobile phone to see for yourself.

We expect to provide even more mobile services in the future. Please let us know what you think would be useful by sending your reactions and ideas to info@dlfound.org.

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We are hard at work on a version of the Dalai Lama Foundation website in Spanish. Other languages are on our target list and soon under development as well. We’d like your reactions and ideas about how The Dalai Lama Foundation can best address non-English-speaking communities around the world.

Preparing an initiative in any given language takes planning and lots of work! First, there’s the matter of translating critical material from the website - which consists of about 150 pages. But, by itself a website doesn’t do everything. There’s also the task of providing the monthly newsletter, and providing a way that speakers of the supported language can inquire, and can get support for their activities. So it requires ongoing support from native speakers of each language we take on.

The Study Guide to Ethics for the New Millennium has already been translated into several languages, but that’s just the starting point.

There’s a Russian-language version of the website at Russia.dalailamafoundation.org.

Please let us know if you have the time and inclination to help the Foundation provide services in a language to non-English-speaking participants.

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Did you know that the Foundation website has a huge section on Books & Video related to ethics and peace? You can help us build this section! Please read our current page and then send your suggestions for books and video that would be relevant to our mission of promoting ethics and peace. If you recommend a book or video that’s not printed by a major publisher or available thru larger bookstores, please try to let us know where it can be obtained.

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“And We’ll All Go Together”

In the Palo Alto, California USA area on February 10, 2008? You are invited to meet with anthropologist, artist and musician, Peter Gold, and to hear him speak on his current project – “And We’ll All Go Together”. This audiovisual work of peace explores how we are bound as partners in healing ourselves and, by extension, our world as a whole. Peter will speak on the wisdom of cultures of indigenous and traditional world peoples. It is Peter’s belief that by exploring the vast panorama of the world’s cultural ways, we are enabled to take a major step toward self-awareness, intercultural understanding and peace.

For more information on the project please visit our site. Interested in attending and meeting Peter please contact Darlene Markovich who will be hosting the event.

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Upcoming Events

Now that we have entered 2008 the events section of the Foundation’s website has been extensively updated.

Events from around the world that focus on peace, compassion and ethical behavior are continually being added so check back often.

Know of an event in your area that would be of interest to others? Drop us a line and let us know.

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