Dalai Lama official representative to hold Q&A at "Dalai Lama Renaissance" screening in New York on February 28 at 4 p.m. at the Rubin Museum of Art

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Dalai Lama official representative to hold Q&A at “Dalai Lama Renaissance” screening in New York on February 28 at 4 p.m. at the Rubin Museum of Art

NEW YORK CITY- The official representative of the Dalai Lama to the Americas, Mr. Lobsang Nyandak, from the Office of Tibet in New York, will be conducting the Q&A session after a screening of “Dalai Lama Renaissance” on February 28 at 4 p.m. at the Rubin Museum of Art.

This follows a very successful opening of “Dalai Lama Renaissance” last weekend (February 21 ans 22), to a full theater, where Producer-Director Khashyar Darvich conducted Q&A’s with audiences.

“Dalai Lama Renaissance,” the award-winning documentary film about the Dalai Lama that is narrated by Harrison Ford, will be playing for 2 more days only on Saturday February 28 and March 1 at the prestigious Rubin Museum of Art.

“Dalai Lama Renaissance” has been released in theaters around the world, including in over 80 cities in the U.S., and has won 12 international awards.

Other Q&A’s after the film this weekend include:

-Saturday February 28 at 4 p.m. – Q&A with Lobsang Nyandak, Representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to the Americas

-Saturday February 28 at 6 p.m. – Q&A with Ven. Bikku Bodhi, Buddhist Global Relief

-Sunday March 1 at 4 p.m. – Q&A with Geoffrey Shugen Arnold, Vice-Abbot of the Zen Center of NYC, the city center of Zen Mountain Monastery.

MR. LOBSANG NYANDAK

Mr. Lobsang Nyandak assumed the post of the Representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to the Americas on September 1, 2008.

Mr. Nyandak is a former Cabinet Member of the Central Tibetan Administration. As a Cabinet Member, he headed the Department of Information and International Relations, the Department of Finance and the Department of Health.

Prior to his appointment to the Tibetan Cabinet, he worked as the founding Executive Director of the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy and also as a member of the Tibetan parliament.

He also worked in various Tibetan NGOs, in particular, Tibetan Youth Congress and National Democratic Party of Tibet.

Before joining the Office of Tibet, he worked as Development Director of the Tibet Fund, New York.

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