I am TIBET

Tenzin Tsundue is a poet, writer and Tibetan activist. He won the first-ever Outlook-Picador Award for Non-Fiction in 2001. He has published three books to date, translated into several languages. Tsundue’s writings have appeared in various publications around the world including the International PEN, Outlook, and The Times of India. In 2002 the Indian edition of the international fashion magazine Elle, named him among ‘India’s 50 most stylish people’.

Tenpa Dugdak was born in Tibet, grew up in India and is now living in Sydney. With his partner, Karen- he started ‘the Tibet effect’ movement-to document and further the positive impact of the Tibet movement on humanity on every level – He returned to his birthplace in Tibet for the first time in 2007 with his family, since he escaped as a baby on his Mother’s back. The return has been compiled into a book titled ‘ Our Tibet which was published in 2008.

Kyinzom Dhongdue is a campaigner with Australia Tibet Council, an organisation that campaign for the human rights and democratic freedoms of the Tibetan people. The daughter of a noted Tibetan activist, Kyinzom grew up in Dharamsala and was schooled in the Tibetan Children’s Village. After studying at Delhi University, Kyinzom worked a journalist for the Times of India and The Asian Age. She has lived in Australia since 2006 and was the official reporter for the Dalai Lama’s 2011 Australian visit.

David Lloyd ( MVA,  BEd, DipT, AssocDipArt, CertPhot Deputy Director (Learning and Teaching), Senior Lecturer), specialises in social documentary photography and the analysis, explanation and interpretation of social order through the politics and aesthetics of this visual medium. David and Angela Blakely, were commissioned by History Section of the Australian Army to document Australian Medical Forces in Rwanda. Both were again commissioned by the World Health Organization (Euro Office) to document health care systems in the former USSR. Additionally, he has worked with aid agencies in Somalia and Bosnia.

In 2000 he published Passing Time a book on palliative care at a Hospice in Brisbane. Currently Lloyd and Blakely are completing a document on solvent abuse in a regional town in Northern Queensland.

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Many of us hold back who we really are, whether to new people we meet or in existing relationships. In HAPPINESS By Expressing Your Real Self, Geshe Lobsang Jamyang discusses aligning our inner life with our outer expression as one of the true paths to happiness.

Geshe Lobsang Jamyang was ordained at the age of sixteen and after eighteen years of study attained the highest degree in Buddhist Philosophy.  Geshe la was a member of Sera Je Monastery in South  India for many years and has also spent time studying at Gyume Tantric Monastery where he mastered practice and rituals of the tantric tradition. Geshe Jamyang joined Chenrezig Buddhist Institute on the Sunshine Coast in 2005 and is the resident teacher.

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