There are three major events that we are asked to participate in:
0. Tuesday, September 19, 7:00-9:00 Diversity workshop Emerson Suits
1. Thursday, September 27, 7 - 8pm Concert in the Hocket room in the Music school
2. Tuesday, October 23rd, 7:00 -8:30pm Emerson (Sustainability)
3. Monday, October 29, 12:00 noon Clark.
4. December 10th, Emerson (Noon?)
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The 19th is a wednesday. which day are you talking about?
*_The Jew in the Lotus_*
*Wednesday, Sept. 19, 8 p.m.*
*Ithaca Falls Room, Egbert Hall*
Using Roger Kamenetz's 1994 book "The Jew in the Lotus: A Poet's Re-Discovery of Jewish Identity in Buddhist India," Jewish chaplain Michael Faber will discuss the interface between Jews and Buddhists, Buddhism and Judaism. Kamenetz had been among a group invited to Dharamsala by the Dalai Lama to discuss how the Jewish experience of spiritual survival in exile might be helpful to Tibetans.
*_Compassion in Exile: The Story of the 14th Dalai Lama_*
*Wednesday, September 26, 7 p.m.*
*Textor 102*
A screening of the documentary film "Compassion in Exile: The Story of the 14th Dalai Lama," introduced by assistant professor of philosophy and religion Brian Karafin. A discussion of the film will follow.
*_Story Night_*
*Tuesday, October 2, 8 p.m.*
*Cayuga Lake Room, Egbert Hall*
Selections from Pierre Delattre's "Tales of a Dalai Lama," a book of short fiction stories, read by Jewish Chaplain Michael Faber.
*_Tibetan Buddhist Healing Goddesses_*
*Thursday, October 4, noon*
*Williams 221*
A look at several key healing deities, led by associate professor of television-radio Mara Alper, assisted by poet Mary Gilliland and massage therapist Bernadette Fiocca.
The Dalai Lama will present "Eight Verses on Training the Mind" at Ithaca College's Ben Light Gymnasium on Wednesday, October 10. All tickets for his 2:00 p.m. presentation have sold out. However, it will be broadcast live on Time Warner Cable channel 16 in the Ithaca area, and will available for viewing live on the Internet at http://www.ithaca.edu/bridgingworlds/. Free viewing locations on the Ithaca College campus will be set up in the Emerson Suites, Phillips Hall; and Ford Hall, James J. Whalen Center for Music.
** The Dalai Lama's October 9--10 visit to the area is taking place under the auspices of Ithaca's Namgyal Monastery Institute of Buddhist Studies, which is the North American seat of his personal monastery. Titled "Bridging Worlds," his series of speaking engagements is intended to represent different groups in Ithaca working together.
In addition to his Ithaca College talk, the Dalai Lama will give a lecture titled "A Human Approach to World Peace" at Cornell University and conduct an interfaith dialogue on "Prayers for World Peace" at the State Theatre.
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