Overview

The Tibet House was founded in 1987 by Columbia University professor Robert Thurman, actor Richard Gere and modern composer Philip Glass (among others) at the behest of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso. It was initially organized in New York City, USA, and the Tibet House U.S. is still based there. 1987 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Columbia University is a private university in New York City. ... A professor is a senior teacher, lecturer and researcher, usually in a college or university. ... Robert Alexander Farrar Thurman (born August 4, 1941 in New York City) is the Je Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University and is the co-founder and president of Tibet House New York. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... Richard Gere Richard Tiffany Gere (born August 31, 1949, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA) is an American actor. ... Modern can simply mean something that is up-to-date, trendy, new, or from the present time. ... A composer is a person who writes music. ... Philip Glass looks upon sheet music in a portrait taken by Annie Leibovitz. ... The 14th and current Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso (born 1935) The 13th Dalai Lama, Thubten Gyatso (1876-1933) In Tibetan Buddhism, the Dalai Lamas are a sequence of leaders, since 1391, from the Gelug (dge lugs) school. ... Tenzin Gyatso is the fourteenth and current Dalai Lama. ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the United States, and is at the center of international finance, politics, entertainment, and culture. ...

Its stated purpose, as taken from the Tibet House website [[1]]: The front page of the English Wikipedia website. ...

• To present to the West Tibet's ancient traditions of art and culture by means of creating a permanent Cultural Center, with Gallery, Library, and Archives, and developing traveling exhibitions, print publications and media productions

• To preserve and restore Tibet's unique cultural and spiritual heritage, by means of developing a Repatriation Collection for future repatriation of outstanding examples of Tibetan art, creating an archive of rare photographs, opening a research library, making a Web site on the Internet for the wide distribution of information, and providing support to conservation activities both inside and outside of Tibet

• To share with the world Tibet's practical systems of spiritual philosophy and mind sciences, and its arts of human development, intercultural dialogues, nonviolence, and peacemaking, by means of innovative programs in cooperation with educational and other cultural institutions.

See Also: Tibet, Buddhism, Government of Tibet in Exile Tibet (Tibetan: བོད་, Bod, pronounced pö in Lhasa dialect; Chinese: 西藏, pinyin: Xīzàng; older spelling Thibet) is a region and former independent country in Central Asia and the home of the Tibetan people. ... A replica of an ancient statue found among the ruins of a temple at Sarnath Buddhism is a religion and philosophy based on the teachings of the Buddha, Siddhārtha Gautama, who lived between approximately 566 and 486 BCE. Originating in India, Buddhism gradually spread throughout Asia to Central Asia... Official language Tibetan Headquarters Dharamsala Head of State (Dalai Lama) Tenzin Gyatso The Government of Tibet in Exile (or Tibet in Exile for short) is a theocratic government-like entity headed by Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama that describes itself as the rightful and legitimate government of Tibet. ...

External Links

The U.S. Tibetan House Web Site - | www.tibethouse.org