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4/10/00

TALK ON TIBETAN BUDDHISM SET AT SLU

CANTON -- A talk on Tibetan Buddhism will be given at St. Lawrence 
University on Wednesday, April 12, at 6:45 p.m. in Herring-Cole Hall 
by Venerable Tenzin Gephel, a monk from the Namgyal Monastery, and 
Sidney Piburn, a founder of the Namgyal Monastery Institute of Buddhist 
Studies in Ithaca. The event is open to the public free of charge, and 
will be followed by a meditation session.
	The Namgyal Monastery is the personal monastery of the Dalai Lama 
and is based in Dharamsala, India. Gephel came to the United States in 
1997 to teach at the institute in Ithaca; his studies include Buddhist 
sciences, sacred Tibetan arts, ritual music, sand mandala construction, 
dance and butter sculptures. He created a sand mandala at St. Lawrence 
in 1999.
	Piburn is owner, managing editor and art director of Snow Lion 
Publications, the largest publisher and distributor of books on Tibet and 
Tibetan culture in the world. The author of The Dalai Lama: A Policy of 
Kindness and The Nobel Peace Prize and the Dalai Lama, Piburn coordinated 
the Dalai Lama's four-day visit to Cornell in 1991.
	For more information, contact either Cathy Tedford, 315-229-5174,
 or Cathy Shrady, 315-229-5264, at St. Lawrence.

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