"What is Tibetan Buddhism?" - With Karma Lekshe Tsomo

Hosted by filmmaker Yujiro Seki, Carving the Divine TV is a series of Q&A sessions with Buddhist scholars and practitioners. These Q&A sessions explore the basic concepts of Buddhism and the history of Buddhism so that when viewers finally watch Carving the Divine they will get the maximum value of the documentary.  In this special episode, we will have a practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism and a professor of Buddist Studies, University of San Diego to discuss Tibetan Buddhism.

We will be asking important questions such as: 
 
What is the Tibetan Buddhism?  What’s so special about it?  

What is Vajrayana? Is it the extension of Mahayana? 
 
What is meant by “tantric tradition”?  Does it require practitioners to have eccentric sex?
 
What is the brief history of Tibetan Buddhism? 
 
What are some of the major schools of Tibetan Buddhism? 
 
Who is The Dalai Lama? 
 
What are mudras? 
 
What are mandalas? How are they used in practice? 
 
What is the role of Buddhist sculptures in Tibetan Buddhism?  

Karma Lekshe Tsomo is a professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of San Diego, where she teaches Buddhist Thought and Culture, World Religions, Death and Dying, Images of Enlightenment, and other subjects. She is a founder and past president of Sakyadhita International Association of Buddhist Women and the founder/director of Jamyang Foundation, an educational initiative that supports study programs for Himalayan nuns in India and Marma girls in Bangladesh. Her publications include Into the Jaws of Yama: Buddhism, Bioethics, and Death; Sisters in Solitude: Two Traditions of Monastic Ethics for Women; and numerous edited works on women in Buddhism. 

Please visit Karma Kekshe Tsomo's websites for the charitable cause: 
www.jamyang.org
www.sakyadhita.org
www.sakyadhita.org/local/branches/hawaii.html