Tibet Goes Organic!

posted 10/26/2009 at 5:54 AM by Adam B

Interview with Ven.Professor Samdhong Rinpoche, first elected Prime Minister of the Tibet Government in Exile, in Dharamsala, India. The interview was filmed on the Bija Vidyapeeth, the School of the Seed, near Dehradun, Uttaranchal, India. The school was set up to teach earth citizenship and Gandhian values of ahimsa and ecological responsibility. Rinpoche and the TGIE have been working with the Bija Vidyapeeth to convert all the Tibetan settlement agriculture projects to organic agriculture. Rinpoche was my teacher in 2005 for the course "Gandhi and Globalisation"

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91 of 285 Brett E wrote: Whoa, deja vu, just got back from a dinner that where he gave us all khatas! Howdy Adam, welcome to the site. posted 10/26/2009 at 10:15 AM Adam B wrote: Wow Brett, Thanks for sharing and for the welcome to the PJ site! Haha I'm jealous that you're in Dharamsala meeting with Rinpoche! I was in Dharamsala last year and saw the TCV anniversary celebrations and visited two more TCV's in Gopalpur and near Dehradun, which is near Dr.Vandana Shiva's farm school The Bija Vidyapeeth where Rinpoche teaches a course about Gandhi and Globalisation each December. This year is the 100th anniversary of Hind Swaraj, the small booklet that Mahatma Gandhi wrote as an imaginary conversation about why and how India should get her independence. Its still available for 10 rupees (and would be in some of the bookstores in Dharamsala - there's one owned by a Tibetan guy who told me he has translated some of Gandhi's works into Tibetan). I'm mega excited about Mrs.Shirin Ebadi launching the Peace Jam Middle East initiative at the UN recently. How exciting that you can be there for PJ and to meet Rinpoche and the Nobel Laureates as well as the TCV students and participants. Haha I helped to cook dinner for Rinpoche once on Dr.Shiva's farm, with the other students of the Gandhi course. I dont know how good our recipes were but it was fun! I was just in East Timopr for their 10 years anniversary and for the East Timorese National Congress of Victim's Families and for a solidarity conference. In East Timor they also give you a kind of coloured scarf made from local cotton called, they are called 'Tais'. Wish you an enjoyable time there, try the Japanese cafe next to Gu Chu Sum. They have great food. posted 10/27/2009 at 5:03 PM Pantea B wrote: He was such a neat guy, Shirin Ebadi and I picked his brain and asked him so many questions over dinner. Everyone was just so kind and wonderful to talk with. I learned so much from this trip. posted 10/29/2009 at 9:15 AM