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The Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama and Choe Khor Sum Ling present the Tibetan Film Festival in Bangalore on May 14-19.
Venue: Choe Khor Sum Ling Center, Ashwini, No. 24, 1st floor, 3rd Main St, Domlur Layout, Bangalore 560 071, tel. 080 41486497, web – www.cksl.in
The Film Festival web-site – www.furhhdl.org/ttib-film-fest09
The entry is free and open to everyone.

Please see the detailed schedule below:
14 May 2009, Thursday
5.30 pm – THE TIBETANS: A LIFE IN EXILE, Robb Bradstock, 60 mins|English|Tibetan|English subtitle
This documentary examines the difficulties confronting Tibetans in exile as they struggle to adapt to the increasing intrusion of the modern world.
Featuring the Dalai Lama and several other prominent community figures who speak with passion and conviction about the gravity of the current situation.

6.40 pm – KUNDUN, director: Martin Scorsese, 135 mins|English|Tibetan|English subtitle
The True Story Of A Man Whose Struggle Would Lead A Nation! The classic biography of the young Dalai Lama
“Visually Stunning!.” – THE NEW YORK TIMES
“A Remarkable Achievement!” – USA TODAY

15 May 2009, Friday
5.30 pm – DREAMING OF TIBET, Will Parrinello, 58 mins|Tibetan|English|English subtitle
A film about the resilience of the human spirit “A moving documentary.” – OAKLAND TRIBUNE
CINE Golden Eagle, Audience Award, Amnesty International Film Festival, Barcelona International Festival of Human Rights

6.40 pm – WINDHORSE, Paul Wagner, 97 mins|English|Tibetan|English subtitles
In Tibet, nothing is more dangerous than the truth.
“****! An amazing movie! A searing political drama that rips the veils off Western idealism about Tibet. A look at Tibet’s spiritual core in the form of a punch in the stomach.” – Peter Stack, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
Won Audience Award in Best Feature film Florida Film Festival, 1998, Nominated Grand Jury Award in narrative Florida Film Festival, 1998
16 May 2009, Saturday

5.30 pm – THE LOST WORLD OF TIBET, Emma Hindley, 90 mins|English|Tibetan|English subtitle
An exclusive interview with the Dalai Lama, focusing on his early life and childhood is intercut with colour archive film from the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s as well as revealing interviews with ordinary Tibetan people who remember life before China sent in troops.
* a BBC production presented by Dan Cruickshank.
“a rare treasure trove that reveals the story of the Dalai Lama & the secrets of ancient Tibet.”

7.10 pm – DREAMING LHASA, Ritu Sarin | Tenzing Sonam, 90 mins|English|Tibetan|English subtitles
1st Asian Festival of 1st Films, Singapore, Nominated Best Picture Best Screenplay, 2005
“This quiet little film is well propelled by the powers of gentle persuasion and emotional subtlety.” – THE HINDUSTAN TIMES
“A film of both personal honesty and social insight…a keenly felt and well-told story of nations and the individual people who form them.” – NEW YORK SUN

8.50 pm – LEAVING FEAR BEHIND, Dhondup Wangchen | Jigme Gyatso, 25 mins|Tibetan|English subtitles
What do Tibetans in Tibet think about the Beijing Olympic Games? The documentary–Leaving Fear Behind–examines this question and a lot more besides. For five months, from October 2007 to March 2008, amateur filmmaker Dhondup Wangchen and his monk camerman, Golok Jigme, secretly filmed in Tibet. They were both arrested at the end of March after the protests erupted, but not before they had managed to smuggle their tapes safely to Switzerland

17 May 2009, Sunday
5.30 pm – UNWINKING GAZE, Joshua Dugdale, 74 mins|English|Tibetan|English subtitles
The inside story of The Dalai Lama’s struggle for Tibet
The rising superpower of China, home to a quarter of the human race, views the Dalai Lama with extreme suspicion, but how right are they to see the Tibetan spiritual leader as ‘a wolf in monk’s clothing’? And what is the Dalai Lama actually saying behind closed doors? Does he really want to split Tibet away from China?

6.50 pm – THE CUP: AN INSPIRING TRUE STORY, Khyentse Norbu, 90 mins|Tibetan|English subtitles
“Rich in detail, yet often irreverent in tone, The Cup takes moviegoers on an eye-opening journey.” – Robert W. Welkos, LOS ANGELES TIMES
Special Jury Award: Amiens International Film Festival
Screen International Award: European Film Awards
One Future Prize : Munich Film Festival

18 May 2009, Monday
5.30 pm – MYSTIC TIBET: AN OUTER, INNER AND SECRET PILGRIMAGE, Christina Lundberg, 90 mins|English|Tibetan|English subtitle
Follow fifty pilgrims as they travel to the roof of the world for the spiritual adventure of a life time, guided by the Tibetan master Lama Zopa Rinpoche
“A pilgrimage with Rinpoche is not sightseeing. It’s like heart-seeing.”– a pilgrim on the tour
“A stunning new documentary… A spiritual treat for the eye, mind and heart.” – MANDALA MAGAZINE

7.10 pm – HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA IN CONVERSATION WITH RAJIV MEHROTRA, Doordarshan National, March 30th 2009, 48 mins|English

8.10 pm – TIBET’S CRY FOR FREEDOM, Lara Damiani, 52 mins|Tibetan|English |English subtitles
Through the eyes of the Dalai Lama and exiled Tibetans in 2007 and 2008, Tibet’s Cry for Freedom explores both past and present in Tibet’s long suffering non-violent freedom struggle. Discover the truth about Tibet’s history and ponder the future of a nation whose time is fast running out.

19 May 2009, Tuesday
5.30 pm – ART IN EXILE. Nidhi Tuli | Ashraf Abbas, 30 mins|Tibetan|English |English subtitles
“Tuli and Abbas explore the efforts of the Tibetan community in India to keep their culture identity alive. The film focuses on Dharamsala’s Norbulingka Art Institute, which teaches pure Tibetan art forms and hopes to achieve the seemingly impossible goal of transporting them back to Tibet one day.” – THE TRIBUNE

6.10 pm – DRAMGYEN: THE LUTE, ashi Eugyalaversion, 13 mins|Tibetan|English subtitles
……….a short film based on a new Tibetan immigrant in USA.

6.30 pm – RICHARD GERE IS MY HERO, ashi Wangchuk | Tsultrim Dorjee, 90 mins|Tibetan|English subtitles
“Film is indeed one of the most powerful tools to highlight issues of any kind. On behalf of the Tibetan Cabinet, let me congratulate the team for making notable films like ‘Richard Gere is my hero’, Phun Anu Thanu – two exile brothers’ and ‘Democracy in Exile’.” — Professor Samdhong Rinpoche, Tibetan Prime Minister

8.10 pm – UNDERCOVER IN TIBET, Channel 4, 48 mins|Tibetan|English subtitles
As Tibetan protesters take to the streets in the biggest and most bloody challenge to Chinese rule in nearly 20 years, Dispatches reports on the hidden reality of life under Chinese occupation.

Contact info: mob. +91 99869 44153

A complete introduction to DJing with advice and help to start a career as a DJ, and to encourage DJing as a hobby.

May 9th and 10th.

On a 3rd day of your choice, play live as a DJ in a club with the help of your mentor!!

Registration closes on 7th.

Call 9663857828 for details and to register

Venue: A popular club in Bangalore

Time: 9 to 5 

Cost: Rs.4300

Course covers:

• Brief history of dance music

• Equipment Knowledge, setup & maintenance

• Counting Beats & Bars

• Drop Mixing (Mixing without beat matching)

• Name Selection

• Review on cueing and drop mixing

• Music Selection and style

• Mixing process, matching tempos etc

• Using Faders, Cross-fader and EQ on mixer

• Mic setup & functions

• Crowd analysis

• Turntablism

• Review on beat-mixing

• Basic audio recording

• Preparation for Recording a live set

• Utilizing EQ, effects and Cross-Fader

• Basic Scratching

• Tips and tricks of mixing

• Song writing & rapping

• Dj Battling

• Scratching and Effects Revision

• Flow of DJ Set, Song selection

• General Rules of thumb in the DJ/Entertainment Industry

• Attitude & attributes

• Self Promotion/Marketing

Buddha Poornima is the most sacred day in the Buddhist tradition: more than two and a half millennia ago on this day in profound meditation under a Bodhi tree prince Siddhartha achieved Enlightenment and became the Buddha, the Awakened One. It’s also the day of the Buddha’s birth and passing into Parinirvana.
Choe Khor Sum Ling celebrates Buddha Poornima with a special event – Khangser Rinpoche will give a teaching on Bodhichitta, the Mind of Enlightenment, and confer an initiation into the practice of White Tara.
Bodhichitta is the mind wishing to achieve full enlightenment in order to free all sentient beings from suffering. It’s often called the “Wish fulfilling gem”, because like a magic jewel such an attitude brings true happiness for self and others.
The teaching will be followed by an empowerment ceremony representing a transmission from Rinpoche of a sadhana devoted to the deity with the aspiration to acquire some of her qualities.
In Buddhist tradition Tara is a female Buddha, known as “the mother of liberation”. Within Tibetan Buddhism she has 21 major forms in all, each, tied to a certain color and energy, offers some feminine attribute or ultimate benefit to spiritual aspirants who ask for her assistance.
As peaceful and compassionate White Tara she gently protects and brings long life that we may better and for longer pursue the Dharma and serve the humanity. Her love heals at the source of disease, bringing health, strength and longevity.
Meditation on White Tara reduces the forces of delusion in the forms of negative karma, sickness, afflictions of kleshas and other obstacles and obscurations. The mantra helps generate Bodhichitta within the heart of the practitioner and purifies the physic channels within the body allowing a more natural expression of generousity and compassion to flow from the heart center. Through experiencing Tara’s perfected form one acknowledges one’s own perfected form, the Buddha’s nature, usually covered by obscurations and clinging to dualistic phenomena as being inherently real and permanent.

Venerable Khangser Rinpoche is one of the foremost Buddhist scholars and practitioners of our time, currently teaches at Sera Jey Monastic University in Bylakuppe, Karnataka. Rinpoche is famous for his modern and simple style of teaching.

Schedule:
Sunday, May 10, 2009
10:00 AM – 01:00 PM – the teaching on Bodhichitta, the Mind of Enlightenment, and the initiation into the practice of White Tara

Venue: Choe Khor Sum Ling Center, Ashwini, # 24, 1st floor, 3rd Main St, Domlur Layout, Bangalore 560 071, tel. 080 41486497, +91 99869 44153

Contact information: Tel. +91 99869 44153, e-mail – info@cksl.in

Choe Khor Sum Ling is a Buddhist Meditation & Study Center established in 2003 by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the request of His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama. The Center offers courses on different aspects of the Buddhist philosophy and meditation techniques by highly learned lamas for free.
For more information on the Center’s activities please visit www.cksl.in.

Khangser Rinpoche

ACM Tech Talk
The use of mobile phones based on cellular technology is prevalent the world over. As users, we take for granted that our
conversations and data are secure. As these systems become more widespread, they become more of a target for those
who want access to other people’s information.

This talk is an insight into security aspects of wireless cellular systems, primarily GSM/GPRS and UMTS. The talk will
cover security across different domains – subscriber, network, application and radio control. Algorithms and security
procedures used in cellular systems will be introduced.

The speaker shall also address the security concerns of the startup companies who are venturing into the space of wireless
and mobility.
About the Speaker
An alumni of the National University of Singapore, Arvind Padmanabhan has 13 years of experience in the field of wireless
telecommunication since 1996. Presently, he is working as the Technical Director of Sloka Telecom Corp, a startup venture
developing WiMAX basestations and NMS solutions. In his previous assignments, Arvind was working for ST Microelectronics
Inc, Singapore and later at Altran Technologies Inc, UK. Arvind Padmanabhan was involved in the UMTS and GPRS protocol
stack development with ST Microelectronics. At Anritsu, UK, he was involved with HSDPA, HSUPA, GSM and MBMS
technologies.

Arvind maintains his own blog on wireless technologies at http://mobilewireless.wordpress.com/
Having moved to India a year ago, he is presently based out of Bangalore.
Date: 9th May 2009 – 10.30am-12.00noon
Venue: Honeywell, Salarpuria, Opposite Mantri Woodlands,
Next to Esteem Enclave Apartments,
Arekere BPL Stop, Bannerghatta Road, Bangalore.
The registration system is online. You can go-ahead and register for the event at http://acmbangalore.org//index.php?option=com_attend_events&task=view&id=4&Itemid=0

Please feel free to call +919901815031 regarding the event.

Dr. Srinivas Padmanabhuni
Principal Researcher,
Software Engineering Lab
SETLabs, Infosys, Bldg 32,
Hosur Rd, Bangalore, India – 560 100
+91 80 28520261 x59507