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Dear All,
This Wednesday, the 2nd of September we have a very special guest for our Cultural Evening in Cafe Amsterdam.
It is Mrs. Vesna A Wallaca, a Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Oxford.
She spent her last 10 summer holidays working in Mongolia to do research on Buddhism in Mongolia.
The title of her talk is: "How Buddha Vajrapani (Ochirvaany) became a Mongol".
This talk will discuss the ways in which a Buddhist deity has been acculturated into Mongolian Buddhist life and the ways in which it has shaped the Mongolian Buddhist identity.
We are sure this Wednesday evening (starting 8PM) will be very interesting. Hope to see you all.
Staff Cafe Amsterdam
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Dear All
Tomorrow, Wednesday the 25th of August for Cultural Evening we have a
film to show: "Into the Wild" by Sean Penn.
Into the Wild recounts the life of Christopher McCandless, a real-life
student-athlete at Emory University, as told by his sympathetic sister
(Jena Malone as Carine McCandless). In rejection of a materialist,
conventional life, and of his parents (William Hurt as Walt McCandless
and Marcia Gay Harden as Billie McCandless), whom McCandless perceives
as having betrayed him, McCandless destroys all of his credit cards
and identification documents, donates $24,000 (nearly his entire
savings) to Oxfam, and sets out on a cross-country drive in his
well-used but reliable Datsun towards his ultimate goal: Alaska and,
alone, to test himself and experience the wilds of nature. He does not
tell his family what he is doing or where he is going and does not
communicate with them thereafter, leaving them to become increasingly
anxious and eventually desperate.
Nearly two years after leaving his family, McCandless crosses a stream
in a remote area of Alaska and sets up camp in abandoned school bus,
the "Magic Bus", used as a shelter for moose hunters. Initially
McCandless is exhilarated by the isolation, the beauty of nature
around and the thrill of living off the land as the spring thaw
arrives. He hunts and gathers, and reads books, and keeps a diary of
his thoughts. However life becomes harder; his supplies start to run
out and although he kills a moose the meat is spoiled by flies and
maggots. He realises that nature is also harsh and uncaring.
Ultimately on his journey of self-discovery he concludes that true
happiness is to be found in sharing, and in the joy of realisation
seeks to return from the wild to his friends and family.
Hope to see all there
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Dear All
For tomorrow's Cultural Evening in Cafe Amsterdam, we have a special Mongolian film to show: "Khadag".
This movie (2006) by Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth was acclaimed at the International film Festival of Rotterdam and the winner of the “Lion of the Future” award at the Venice Film Festival Bagi, a young herdsman, is living on the endless Mongolian steppes together with his mother and grandfather. He has a paranormal gift to hear and understand the voices of animals. One day soldiers warn the family that there is a serious epidemic threatening the animals. The soldiers force the nomads to move to a depressing mining city. There Bagi saves the life of a beautiful young girl, Zolzaya, who is a thief. Together with her gang of twelve they discover that the epidemic is a lie with the purpose to stop nomadic life. A breathtaking telepathic revolution follows…. Boudewijn, who is pasionate about this film and brought it to our attention will be introducing 'Khadak'on Wednesday night at the Cafe Amsterdam's cultural evening. You are welcome to come and share this unique film in the company of others who love all things Mongolian. If you have a special film that you would also like to share with others -not necessarily about Mongolia and including amateur films, documentary or feature-, please let us know so that we can discuss a screening. Hope to see you all in Cafe Amsterdam on Wednesday night at 8:00PM.
Team Cafe Amsterdam
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Dear All,
For this week's Cultural Evening in Cafe Amsterdam (tomorrow Wednesday 12 August 8 PM) we have Brian Baumann, Adjunct Professor of Mongolian Studies at Indiana Unviersity in the USA.
He currently lives in Ulaanbaatar on a Luce Foundation preparing a manuscript on the subject of hell and studying the transition period from the Qing dynasty to the coming of Modernity and Communism. He understands this period as "Mongolia's transition from science to religion".
In his talk he will discuss what he means by "science" as it relates to hell and especially the tradition of Buddhist Mathematics.
This is actually the subject of his dissertation: Divine Knowledge: Buddhist Mathematics according to the Anonymous Manual of Astrology and Divination.
Hope to see you tomorrow in Cafe Amsterdam at 8 PM
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Dear All,
At tomorrow's (Wednesday, August 5th) Cultural Evening at 8 PM in Cafe Amsterdam we have Marc Watkins to share his experience about teaching English language.
The title for the talk is: "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Teaching English (or Mongolian) for Fun, Friendship, or Profit.
Marc Watkins is the co-founder of New York English, "The Local Language School with International Connections".
He will lead a discussion tomorrow with members of the audience on how to teach a foreign language. Expect a lively, informative and possibly raucous evening.
See you there!
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