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Digital Dharma: One Man's Mission to Save Culture
Content:Documentary Film
Available From:Lunchbox Dox
Release Date:August 2013
Audience:Higher Education
High School
Language:English
Author:Dafna Yachin

Subject:Anthropology and Sociology
Diaspora and Ethnicity
History
Philosophy and Religion
Subheading:Buddhism
Tibetan
Region:East Asia
East/West Relations
South Asia
Country:China
India
Nepal



Abstract:

When ancient writings of Sanskrit and Tibetan texts vanish during the political turmoil of the 1950s and 1960s, the history of a whole society-–its beliefs, customs and sense of enlightenment-–is in danger of disappearing.  Enter destiny in the form of American pacifist E. Gene Smith, a Mormon from Utah, the unlikely leader of an effort to rescue, preserve and share these early insights of mankind’s consciousness, from the medical to the mystical.Crossing multiple borders – geographic, political and philosophical – Digital Dharma is an epic story of a cultural rescue and how one man’s mission became the catalyst for an international movement to provide free access to the story of a people.






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