Digital Dharma - Documentary on E. Gene Smith
Digital Dharma - Documentary on E. Gene Smith
Digital Dharma uncovers E. Gene Smith's 50-year journey with renowned scholars, lamas and laypeople as they struggle to find, preserve and digitize more than 20,000 volumes of ancient Tibetan text. 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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- How foolish you are,
grasping the letter of the text and ignoring its intention!
- Vasubandhu
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FYI: 14 days left to donate at Kickstarter:
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- How foolish you are,
grasping the letter of the text and ignoring its intention!
- Vasubandhu
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- How foolish you are,
grasping the letter of the text and ignoring its intention!
- Vasubandhu
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26 hours to go! They're almost there!
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- How foolish you are,
grasping the letter of the text and ignoring its intention!
- Vasubandhu
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Looks like it's getting pretty close!
14 hours to go and $29,831 pledged so far!!
14 hours to go and $29,831 pledged so far!!
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I hope they get it.
Gene was an extraordinary man.
I miss him.
Gene was an extraordinary man.
I miss him.
"All phenomena of samsara depend on the mind, so when the essence of mind is purified, samsara is purified. Since the phenomena of nirvana depend on the pristine consciousness of vidyā, because one remains in the immediacy of vidyā, buddhahood arises on its own. All critical points are summarized with those two." - Longchenpa
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Funding Complete!
- How foolish you are,
grasping the letter of the text and ignoring its intention!
- Vasubandhu
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Awesome!Mr. G wrote:Funding Complete!
Gene was really proud of this film. One time when I got to spend an afternoon with him in his office he was showing me clips of it.
He would be very pleased to know that it is moving forward.
"All phenomena of samsara depend on the mind, so when the essence of mind is purified, samsara is purified. Since the phenomena of nirvana depend on the pristine consciousness of vidyā, because one remains in the immediacy of vidyā, buddhahood arises on its own. All critical points are summarized with those two." - Longchenpa
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That must have been awesome spending time talking with him. Nice!Nangwa wrote:Gene was really proud of this film. One time when I got to spend an afternoon with him in his office he was showing me clips of it.
He would be very pleased to know that it is moving forward.
- How foolish you are,
grasping the letter of the text and ignoring its intention!
- Vasubandhu
Re: Digital Dharma - Documentary on E. Gene Smith
It certainly was.Mr. G wrote:That must have been awesome spending time talking with him. Nice!Nangwa wrote:Gene was really proud of this film. One time when I got to spend an afternoon with him in his office he was showing me clips of it.
He would be very pleased to know that it is moving forward.
"All phenomena of samsara depend on the mind, so when the essence of mind is purified, samsara is purified. Since the phenomena of nirvana depend on the pristine consciousness of vidyā, because one remains in the immediacy of vidyā, buddhahood arises on its own. All critical points are summarized with those two." - Longchenpa
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That's awesome.Nangwa wrote:It certainly was.Mr. G wrote:That must have been awesome spending time talking with him. Nice!Nangwa wrote:Gene was really proud of this film. One time when I got to spend an afternoon with him in his office he was showing me clips of it.
He would be very pleased to know that it is moving forward.
Kevin
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Congratulations to the film makers and everyone else involved in this fantastic project!!!
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Saint in Seattle tells a lot about him. Apparently he had a prodigious memory. Was he a practitioner? He didn't walk around with a mala like Jeffrey Hopkins, right?
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Gene was a practitioner. He definitely didnt advertise it though.Clarence wrote:Saint in Seattle tells a lot about him. Apparently he had a prodigious memory. Was he a practitioner? He didn't walk around with a mala like Jeffrey Hopkins, right?
His root teachers were Deshung Rinpoche and Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche.
My personal impression of Gene was that he was not only a practitioner but a very accomplished one at that.
He was tremendously enjoyable to be around and always ready to share his experiences and insights.
I loved Gene Smith, and will always consider him to have been a great mentor to me. We lost a very special friend when Gene passed.
"All phenomena of samsara depend on the mind, so when the essence of mind is purified, samsara is purified. Since the phenomena of nirvana depend on the pristine consciousness of vidyā, because one remains in the immediacy of vidyā, buddhahood arises on its own. All critical points are summarized with those two." - Longchenpa