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The Dalai Lama to Speak in Long Beach on April 21 H
is Holiness the Dalai Lama will be delivering a public talk on “Peace of Mind in Troubled Times” Saturday, April 21, 1:30 p.m. at the Long Beach Arena. This event is hosted by Gaden Shartse Thubten Dhargye Ling (GSTDL), a Tibetan Buddhist center in Long Beach.
Dalai Lama
The speech will cover how to cultivate generos- ity, humility, and equanimity—universal themes that have made international peace icon Tenzin Gyatso, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, one of the world’s most beloved spiritual teachers. A tireless advocate of social justice and nonviolence, the Dalai Lama con-
tinues to travel widely to promote a more open, just, and democratic world. The Tibetan leader officially devolved his political leadership last year but remains the head of Tibetan Buddhism.
Geshe Lobsang Tsultrim, director of GSTDL, believes “It’s an incredible bless- ing that His Holiness will be returning to Long Beach. It’s a great privilege for us to host this public talk at the Arena, and this will allow many people to see him.”
Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased at all Ticketmaster locations and the Long Beach Performing Arts Center Main Box Office. Ticket prices are as follows: $20, $37, $64, and $94. For more information, call Ticketmaster at 800-745-3000 or visit
Ticketmaster.com. The Box Office is located at 300 E. Ocean Boulevard and is open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday from 12 to 4 p.m.
Bastyr University’s San Diego Campus Receives Accreditation
B
astyr University recently received regional ac- creditation by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (NWCCU) for its new California campus in San Diego. The NWCCU is an institutional accrediting body recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
“To be the first and only accredited naturopathic medicine university in the State of California is an accomplishment of which we are immensely proud,” said Bastyr University President Daniel K. Church, Ph.D. “Accreditation ensures that we will provide the same quality educational experience at our San Diego campus as we do at our main campus in the Seattle area.”
Bastyr University is internationally recognized as a pioneer in natural medi- cine. As the largest university for natural health arts and sciences in the U.S., Bastyr offers more than 17 degree and certificate programs in fields such as natu- ropathic medicine, acupuncture and Oriental medicine, and whole-food nutrition. Founded in 1978, the university now includes a leading-edge research facility (the Bastyr University Research Institute) and outstanding clinical training at Bastyr Center for Natural Health. The university’s second campus, Bastyr University Cali- fornia, will open in San Diego, California, in fall 2012, becoming the state’s first and only accredited school of naturopathic medicine.
For more information, visit
Bastyr.edu/admissions or call 425-823-1300. See ad, page 28.
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The Highest Pass Documentary Opens in Santa Monica
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he doc- umen-
tary film The High- est Pass, winner of the Spot - light Award at Topanga and the Audience Award at San Diego Film Festival, premieres at Santa Monica’s Laemmle Theater on Friday, April 27. During the opening weekend, it is estimated that there will be five showings daily. Show times have not yet been announced. In addition, following each of the main evening showings, filmmakers Adam Schomer and Jon Fitzgerald, Sattva guru Anand Mehrotra, and others will be leading a Q & A session. The Highest Pass chronicles seven riders and their guru as they make life and death decisions while traversing icy cliffs and the chaos of India’s traffic while on a motorcycle journey through the Himalayas. Carrying a prophecy of death in his late twenties, their Yogi leader Anand inspires the riders to ques- tion what it means to truly live as they cross over 1,200 miles of hard terrain and climb 18,000 feet in a journey that will change them forever. The film was written and produced by Adam Schom- er and directed by Jon Fitzgerald (The Back Nine). It is distributed by Cinema Libre Studio.
The film opens at Laemmle’s Monica 4-plex, 1332 2nd Street, Santa Monica. For more information, call 310-478- 3836 or visit
Laemmle.com. For more info on the film, visit TheHigh-
estPass.com or follow at Facebook. com/
thehighestpass.com or Twitter @thehighestpass.
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