Amida Buddhism Newcastle

Join the 72 hour nembutsu chant at The Buddhist House

As the first part of the Bodhi Retreat at the Buddhist House, the Amida sangha chant the nembutsu, Namo Amida Bu.....this started at 12 mid-day on Wednesday and continues until mid-day Saturday, GMT. Kuvalaya is taking part. You can join in at a distance, as Sujatin is doing (she can't be with them in person, due to ill health and much snow and ice) by watching the video here.

Amida Newcastle meetings on 14th, 21st April 2009 - Tibet Film Festival at the Tyneside Cinema

We'll be meeting at the Tyneside Cinema, 10 Pilgrim Street, on 14th April (film starts at 5:50pm)
and 21st April (film starts at 6:40pm) in place of our usual meetings.

We could meet up beforehand in the foyer or the Intermezzo Coffee Bar on the ground floor and go somewhere for hot choc etc afterwards.

http://www.tynecine.org/
The Tibet Film Festival 2009 features some of the most recent material to emerge on Tibet and was launched in March to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Tibetan National Uprising in 1959. 

Unmistaken Child (PG)
Tuesday 14 April, 5.50pm

This visually stunning and emotionally gripping documentary chronicles the search by Tenzin Zopa, a devoted disciple, for the reincarnation of his revered Tibetan Buddhist religious master, Lama Konchog, His sacred quest takes him to remote Tibetan villages in the mountains of Nepal, and as an apparent contender emerges, the film follows the young boy as he undergoes the mysterious tests that need to be passed in order to confirm the reincarnation. Unmistaken Child sheds light on a rarely filmed aspect of Tibetan Buddhism. Tickets: £4.00/£3.00 concessions.

(CONCESSION QUALIFICATION
Discounts apply to: those receiving income support; people in full-time education; young people aged 16 and under; senior citizens; disabled people; and City Card holders.)

Tibet’s Cry for Freedom (PG)
Tuesday 21 April, 6.40pm

Filmed over the course of a year, from March 2007 to March 2008, this film offers an insightful account of Tibet’s history and its present, exploring in depth many of the human rights and environmental issues facing Tibet today as a result of more than 50 years of Chinese occupation. This is one of the most recent and comprehensive overviews of the Tibet issue and its current situation. Tickets: £4.00/£3.00 concessions.

Preceded by short film: A Brief History of Life

Young Tibetan filmmaker Tenzin Jangchup tells his story from growing up in exile in India to moving to Canada as a young adult.