This is an index of select Tibet-related video and audio available for free on the Web. It is not intended to be exhaustive. Samsara does not maintain these files, and we do not claim credit for the work included here. For further details about a given piece, please refer to the links included with it. Please support this important work.

To be viewed, the majority of these clips require Real Player 5.0 or later. Windows Media Player is also acceptable. Files in the .mov format require QuickTime (also free).

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Today's 'Voice of Tibet' Daily News Broadcast  [30 min]
(http://www.vot.org/vot.ram)

(In Tibetan)  The Voice of Tibet (VOT) broadcasts a daily 30 minutes service every day on short wave. The programme's production is carried out by Tibetan journalists stationed in several countries, including Europe and the US. All VOT programmes are produced in the Tibetan language. VOT's homepage includes on-demand audio of the past week's broadcasts.

•    D O C U M E N T A R I E S

World Youth News: Special Report: Tibet
(http://www.freespeech.org/ramfiles/wyntibet2.ram)

A decent and fairly thorough documentary produced for a high school audience. Includes interviews with HH Dalai Lama and Palden Gyatso, footage shot secretly inside Tibet by Jon Van de Ven, and excerpts from films by Two Bat Productions — Strange Spirit and One Country's Occupation.

A film by Ronnie & Rebecca Novick.
Produced by World Youth News and StreamTV.
RealVideo hosting by Free Speech Internet Television

Tibet — May/June 1994  [41 min]
(http://www.future.org/future-generations/multimedia/tibet.ram)

A video documentary by Flora MacDonald, made during travels through Tibetan exile communities in Nepal and India.

A film by Flora MacDonald.
Produced and hosted by Future Generations (1998).

•    M U S I C   &   C H A N T S

Drepung chants recorded live at Willet Hall, Portsmouth, VA. Excellent stereo field recordings by Michael Hines.
Opening Ceremony  [8 min]   [ 16 Kbps  20 Kbps ]
Closing Ceremony  [15.5 min]    [ 20 Kbps ]

Produced and hosted by Crash Audio (1998).

Excerpts/trailer for a feature length documentary about Tibet, youth acticvism and The Tibetan Freedom Concerts produced by the Milarepa Fund. Clip begins with Palden Gyatso. (A 3-CD soundtrack has also been released.) View RealVideo: 28.8 / ISDN or 28.8 buffered play

Produced and hosted by The Milarepa Fund (San Francisco)

A Flash of Lightning:  [approx. 30 min.]
A concert in celebration of His Holiness the Dalai Lama
    (http://www.ibtv.net/tibet/entire.ram)

Live performance video of Drepung Monks, Patti Smith, Sheryl Crow, and Phillip Glass. Michael Stipe and Joan Osborne also made an appearance. (Visit the official concert homepage and the Drepung Loseling Monastery homepage.)

Produced by Internet Broadcast Television Network (IBTV.net)

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Greatest Places Online: Tibet Multimedia

Birds Calls of Nepal [29 min]
(http://www.future.org/future-generations/multimedia/ra-birds-of-nepal.ram)

An audio documentary by David Michael. Beautiful stereo field recordings of Nepalese bird songs. The species included were chosen to represent diverse ecological areas.

Pema Talks About Tibet (in Tibetan)
(http://www.hawaii.org/hurt5/explore/tertiary/nflrc_setsang.ram)

Tibetan exile Pema Dorje Setsang describes his home country. He arrived in Hawaii in 1994 and began studing English at the NFLRC East West Center, the language school which produced this audio.

Copyright 1995 HRT.
Produced by The National Foreign Language Resource Center.

Greatest Places Online: Tibet Multimedia
http://www.greatestplaces.org/book_pages/tibet2.htm

Tibet Video (QuickTime)   Nomads   Grindstone   Prayer wheel   Stupa spires

Tibet Audio (.aiff format)   Tibetan horns   Nomad singing   Spinning prayer wheel

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© 1999 Science Museum of Minnesota (Saint Paul, MN)