AsiaLENS: "Daughters of Wisdom" with introduction by Arjia Rinpoche

• Event Date: Tuesday, November 3, 2009
• Time: 7:00 pm (CST)
• Location: Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL

• Film

"Daughters of Wisdom" (2007, 68 min.), directed by Bari Pearlman, tells the unique story of how the Nangchen nuns of Kham, living on the Eastern Tibetan plateau, built their own Kala Rongo Monastery in spite of the longstanding tradition dictating that women, due to custom and socioeconomic demands, not receive educational and religious training.

This film will be introduced by Arjia Rinpoche, a high lama of the Gelupa sect of Tibetan Buddhism, formerly Head Abbot of the Kumbum Monastery in Amdo Tibet and currently the director of the Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center, Bloomington, Indiana. This film initiates the 2009-2010 AsiaLENS series of public film screenings and lecture/discussion programs organized by the Asian Educational Media Service (AEMS) at the Center for East Asian & Pacific Studies and planned in collaboration with the Spurlock Museum. Following the screening, viewers will be invited to join in discussion led by Arjia Rinpoche.