Asian Film Festival 2010: Visualizing Tibet: Milarepa (Neten Chokling, 2006, 90 min.)

• Event Date: Sunday, November 7, 2010
• Time: 3:15 pm (CDT)
• Location: Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
• Cost: Free Admission

• Film

In his directorial debut, Buddhist lama Neten Chokling vividly presents the mythic story of Milarepa, the man who would become Tibet’s greatest yogi and saint. In the dramatic setting of 11th century Tibet, the young Milarepa falls into a world of betrayal and hardships. Encountering magicians, demons, an enigmatic teacher and unexpected mystical power along the way, Milarepa glows with a unique visual and spiritual charge.

All Festival films are in Chinese or Tibetan with English subtitles. Seating will be first come, first served, and theater will be cleared between screenings.

Special Guests: Elliot Sperling, Associate Professor, Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN Arjia Rinpoche, Director, Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center, Bloomington, IN Lynn True, Film Director, Summer Pasture

Co-sponsors: Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH), Weber State University, Kham Film Project, AsiaPacificFilms, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies UI

Supported with funding from the U.S. Department of Education National Research Centers Program