Celebration of Tibet
Celebration of Tibet 2020
Thrangu Nunnery
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The Cultural Center of Cape Cod, 307 Old Main Street, South Yarmouth, MA
May 21 – June 2: Tibetan Art Show and Sale
Exhibition in the Board Room Gallery will feature Tibetan inspired paintings, thangkas (meditative paintings), photographs of Tibetan scenes and more!
May 24: Free opening reception with snacks and beverages 5 pm – 7 pm
June 2: Screening of Documentary "Tsurphu, The Giant Appliques" 7 pm – 9 pm
This documentary provides a glimpse into a world rarely seen by the West and tells the incredible story of two Westerners working side-by-side with Tibetan seamstresses to reclaim a piece of history. This film will be screened in the main hall of the Cultural Center of Cape Cod.
Tickets are $10 and can be purchased through https://www.cultural-center.org/#home
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Cape Cod Museum of Art, 60 Hope Lane, Dennis, MA
June 9: VIP Reception, Tibetan Dance, and Mandala Dissolution Ceremony 5 pm – 6:30 pm
Featuring a traditional Tibetan dance performance, a dissolution ceremony of a sand mandala for compassion which Tibetan lamas have created onsite over the course of a week, and a surprise guest speaker. Includes hors d'oeuvres, beverages and a movie ticket for "The Last Dalai Lama?" film which will be screened at 7 pm at Cape Cinema, walking distance from the museum.
VIP Reception & Movie Tickets are $75 can be purchased through https://www.ccmoa.org/
Cape Cinema, 45 Hope Lane, Dennis, MA
June 9: Screening of Documentary "The Last Dalai Lama?" followed by Q & A with Film Director Mickey Lemle 7 pm – 9 pm
Twenty-four years after his first film about the 14th Dalai Lama, director Mickey Lemle takes you right up close to the Tibetan holy one's presence — and wisdom.
"A surplus of wisdom and benevolence radiates from 'The Last Dalai Lama?'" – The New York Times
Tickets are $15 and can be purchased through https://www.capecinema.com/coming-soon
Tickets for any of these events can also be purchased by contacting Palma Puzzuoli at 973-876-6822 or by email Puzzuoli@att.net.
Event proceeds will be donated to Help Tibetan Nuns, Inc. a non-profit organization dedicated to helping Tibetan women and children with humanitarian aid.
Our Recent Work & Current Goals
• In April 2019 funds were raised for education and food for Tilokpur Nunnery in Himachal Pradesh. Founded in 1966, Tilokpur was the first Karma Kagyu nunnery built in India.
• A large gift was made to a nunnery in Sikkim for construction of housing, classrooms, and a shrine.
• At Thrangu Nunnery in Tibet, a nun who had been diagnosed with advanced tuberculosis, a life threatening disease, was brought to a hospital in Beijing and has since made vast improvements towards regaining her health.
Now we must raise $300,000 to build a small medical clinic at Thrangu Nunnery in Tibet, and to offer medical supplies to several Himalayan nunneries in order to treat TB and other diseases endemic to these areas.
We also need to raise $70,000 for a suitable bus to transport the nuns on the mountainous roads in Yushu. They almost had a deadly accident this year in their old rickety bus with its small tires.
Help Tibetan Nuns, Inc.
C/O Amy McCracken
Cotuit, Ma. 02635
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