Brilliant Moon

http://photos1.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/6/2/9/0/event_84865232.jpegDoors open at 6:30pm- Video starts promptly at 7pm

Note: Donation suggestion: $5. (at the door) Members Only! Guests are welcome- but please RSVP your guests.

After the Video there is a discussion and food session where we discuss the benefits and lessons of the video in relation to ourselves and others

This documentary takes a look at the life of spiritual writer and meditation teacher Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, a Tibetan Buddhist who has helped teach the practice of meditation to the Dalai Lama, the royal family of Bhutan, and others. Richard Gere and Lou Reed narrate the program. ~ Cammila Albertson, Rovi

Brilliant Moon: Glimpses of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche chronicles the life of the writer, poet, and meditation master Khyentse Rinpoche, one of Tibet's most revered 20th-century Buddhist teachers. Known as the instructor of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Royal Family of Bhutan, his life and teachings were an inspiration to all who encountered him. Two of his admirers are Richard Gere and Lou Reed, who provide the narration for his dangerous journey out of China and the subsequent spread of his influence around the world. Brilliant Moon was filmed in Tibet, India, Bhutan, the United States and Nepal, and uses animation, rare archival footage and interviews with some of Tibet's great thinkers, to tell his moving life story, from birth to death to rebirth. Written and Directed by Neten Chokling (Milarepa), one of Khyentse Rinpoche's students, it is an intimate, moving and revelatory look at a transcendent spiritual being.