By Yuriko Ando Lochan

Opening on Tuesday, 25 March 2014 at 18:30

The Women of Tibet & The Tibetan Nuns Project

Talk followed by a screening of two films

Introductory talk by Rinchen Khando Choegyal, Director of the Tibetan Nuns Project, Founding Member & former President, Tibetan Women's Association and former Minister of Education in the Tibetan Cabinet

Films 

Dolma Ling Institute and Nunnery: Educating for the Future (18 min; dvd; English)

A film by Tibetan Nuns Project, Dolma Ling

Dolma Ling Institute was established in 1991 to meet the needs of the many nuns who have fled from Tibet in search of the freedom to study and practice their religion. The film presents the daily lives of the 200 nuns who live there

Women of Tibet: A Quiet Revolution (57 min; dvd; English)

Director: Rosemary Rawcliffe

Three generations of Tibetan women and His Holiness the Dalai Lama tell the story of one of the greatest movements of non-violent resistance in modern history. In 1959, an estimated 15,000 unarmed Tibetan women took to the streets of Lhasa to oppose the violent Communist Chinese occupation of their country. The surviving exiled elders in Dharamsala are the last generation of women left to tell the story of the Tibetan women's uprising