Daughters of Wisdom
- Monday, March 24 12:00 pm
- Friday, March 28 8:30 pm
- Saturday, March 29 12:00 pm
City Hall Arts Center
Friday, March 28 at 8:30 pm SOLD OUT
Saturday, March 29 at 12:00 noon SOLD OUT
In Tibet today, roughly 15% of the people live in urban centers, where the ongoing struggle for Tibet’s future is taking place. But the other 85% of Tibetans live in rural areas, subsistence farmers and nomadic herding families engaged in the daily struggle to eat and survive. DAUGHTERS OF WISDOM is a story of these people, an experiential and transporting view of contemporary Tibet seen through the eyes of some of its most extraordinary women, the nuns of Kala Rongo Monastery of Nangchen, Kham. Founded in 1990, the Kala Rongo Monastery is granting women choices they’ve never had before, and changing outmoded attitudes that no longer serve the greater good of the community. Nearly 300 nuns are now receiving religious and educational training previously unavailable to them and are being given a real opportunity to change the course of their lives and to preserve the rich spiritual heritage of their people. Sponsored by Johnson State College. Community Partners: Shambhala Center of Montpelier, Kagyu Palchen Chöling Tibetan Buddhist Meditation Center of Montpelier. Post-film event: Producer and director Bari Pearlman will appear at the Friday, March 28 and Saturday, March 29 shows. 68 minutes, in Tibetan with subtitles.  Film website
Posted in 2008 Films & Events