Canadian Tibetan Association presents film "Karma" (6/25/2006)

The Canadian Tibetan Association of Ontario is inviting Ex-Mussoorie Alumni Nepal and Tsering Rhitar's movie, "KARMA"

This is a fund raising weekend movie day for various tibetan organizations, You are invited to come and enjoy the wonderful movie, directed and produced by younger generation of Tibetan youth, Tsering Rhitar, oscar nominee.
cost: Advance $7 and at the door $9. Tickets are available from the following places:
Tibet Kitchen: 416-913-8726
Rangzen Cafe: 416-588-1100
1959 Cafe: 416-536-3068
Tibet Shoppe: 416-703-8423
Kelsang's Interior Design @ Yonge St: 416-962-0888
Tibet Emporium: 647-436-0125
Or contact Alana directly.

The Movie Preview:
Two young men, Tsering Rhitar and Tenzing Wangdu of Nepal E-mussoorie Alumni Association, who spent their school years in Mussoorie, a hill station town in northern India known for harboring thousands of displaced Tibetan refugees, will be in North America in July and August with a movie and a mission. The movie titled Karma is Mr. Rhitar's latest directorial venture while the charity project, Home Away from Home, serves children - orphans, destitute, and new arrivals to India from Tibet. The charity was founded by the "Ex-Mussoorie Association", alumni of Mussoorie schools. The Alumni want specifically to give 20 such deprived Tibetan children a special winter holiday every year and gradually increase the number. "In 2005, ten young children were escorted from Mussoorie to Kathmandu, Nepal where they were taken into the homes of members of Ex-Mussoorie and had outings and all the treats that children the world over desire – ice-cream, trips to the zoo, movies," says Tenzing Wangdu, a member of Ex Mussoorie, "We hope to continue this mission. This is why we are touring the U.S and Canada on a fundraising trip." A small film could not have a bigger philosophical question: what is more important, inner development or outward social action? Karma was shot in the remote region of Mustang in the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal and follows the journey of a Tibetan Buddhist nun. In a nunnery in the high desert mountains, a revered abbess dies, leaving signs that she will be reborn in the precious human form. Prayers and ritual must be done to help her consciousness into its next rebirth, but the nunnery coffers are empty. The senior nuns decide that the only way out is get back money loaned out by the nunnery. A nun by the name of Karma decides to take this journey into the capital of Nepal, Kathmandu. "This tour will launch Karma, and we hope to reach a wide audience and touch the hearts of all people from the Himalayas living abroad and supporters of Tibet to contribute to helping those less fortunate left behind," says Tsering Rithar Sherpa. Tsering Rhitar says, "In Karma, I am trying to explore if spiritualism and materialism can complement each other, or not."