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SAVE the Date!!!

November 19, 2011 from 10:30 am – 2:00 pm

Venue: Regeneration Church, 238 E. 15th St. Oakland, CA 94606

FREE Health Services:

- Vaccination, Blood pressure, Body Mass Index (BMI) & Dental screenings

- Medical advice from MDs

- Workshops on health care options for the uninsured

- Community Resources

Diabetes is a lifelong (chronic) disease in which there are high levels of sugar in the blood.

Treatment

There is no cure for diabetes. Treatment involves medicines, diet, and exercise to control blood sugar and prevent symptoms and problems.

For more information on how to take care of your diabetes, see also:

• Diabetes diet
• Diabetes foot care
• Type 1 diabetes
• Type 2 diabetes

Source: American Heart Association

Global intervention to save Tibetan lives

Between September 26 and October 17, eight young Tibetan monks and one Tibetan nun have set themselves on fire in Ngaba County, eastern Tibet. This brings the total number of known self-immolations in Tibet to nine this year. Five of them died and the fate of the other three remain unknown. The situation remains tense and posters appearing around Ngaba town and Kirti Monastery warn that if the present situation of oppression continues many more people are prepared to give up their lives in protest. Chinese military forces have enclosed Ngaba and surrounding areas, placing it under effective martial law.

China’s systematic repression and tyrannical rule in Tibet — stationing officials in the monasteries, disappearing monks by the hundreds, shutting down phone lines, cutting off the internet, installing surveillance cameras and military checkpoints everywhere — have created a spiraling nation-wide crisis.

Bay Area Tibetans and supporters join a the global campaign “Enough is Enough – Global Intervention to save Tibetan Lives” (www.StandupforTibet.org) to show Tibetans in Ngaba and across Tibet that their deep pain and suffering has not gone unnoticed by the world. Tibet is burning and Tibetans need world leaders to intervene and most immediately – we must pressure China to withdraw its security forces from Ngaba and stop the ongoing harassment and torture of Tibetan monks at Kirti monastery.

We call on our state representatives and county leaders to take the following actions:

(1) Global pressure on China to withdraw its security forces from Ngaba and stop the ongoing harassment and torture of Tibetan monks at Kirti Monastery;

(2) World leaders to issue a coordinated international response to condemn China’s repressive measures in Ngaba and across Tibet and to institute multi-lateral mechanisms to advocate for the Tibetan people.

Please join us on Wednesday, November 2. from 10 a.m. – 6.p.m in San Francisco. Protests are taking place world-wide on this day as Hu Jintao attends the G20 Leaders’ summit in Cannes, South of France. Please respond via Facebook @ http://tinyurl.com/3skquoc

This event is organized by San Francisco Team Tibet, a coalition of Bay Area Tibet organizations dedicated to Tibet’s freedom.
San Francisco Regional Tibetan Youth Congress, Tibetan Association of Northern California, Committee of 100 for Tibet, Bay Area Friends of Tibet, and Students for a Free Tibet.

Documentry : Little Tibet

Synopsis:
Sonam is about to go on a journey to one of the highest places on earth. As a
Tibetan who can no longer return to his own country, Sonam is in search of
Tibet outside of Tibet. Could Ladakh be that place?
Ladakh, in the northern most part of India, is often known as Little Tibet. It
borders Tibet and shares much of its culture, language and landscape. Here, in
this remote, high altitude land, Sonam finds the beauty of his culture both
preserved and living.
During his journey across the breathtaking landscape of the Himalayas, through
rain, snow and desert, Sonam discovers ancient Tibetan monasteries and talks
with nomads in Chang Thang, the pasturelands that once stretched over the
Indo-Tibetan border. He sees His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama give teachings
to an audience of thousands, joins in the celebrations of a Tibetan wedding and
encounters marmots.
In this land still rich in Tibetan culture, he finds the gems of his lost homeland,
but he cannot cross the tantalisingly close border and return to Tibet.

Synopsis: Choegyal Norsang

In ancient India, there were two Kingdoms, the Northern Abode of Prosperity ruled by the Buddhist King Norchen and his son Norsang, and the Southern Abode of Racial Purity ruled by the despotic Shakya Shony. When Shakpa Shony strayed from the righteous path of Buddhism to consult with demons and imps, his kingdom was so plagued with drought and disease that even the Nagas (water spirits) fled to the Northern Abode of Prosperity.

Hoping to avert further catastrophe and convince the Nagas to return, Shakpa Shony sought the help of the great sorcerer, “Holder of the Black Serpent in the Mouth,” who then went to Great Lotus Life Force Lake to bring the Nagas back. The Naga Queen entreated a fisherman to help the Nagas. The brave man agreed and the Queen gave him a magical whetstone to sharpen his sword. Aided by this magic, he slayed the sorcerer.

To express their gratitude, the Nagas gave the fisherman a “wish-fulfilling gem.” Mystified about what to do with so precious a gift, he sought the advice of the old Brahmin couple who lived with him. They said to take it to the holy hermit of Happy Mountain Cave who had lived more than five hundred years. When the fisherman asked how such immortality was possible, the hermit confided that he regularly swam in the “Brahma Bathing Pool” where even goddesses bathed occasionally.

The fisherman begged the hermit to lead him to the pool and, on an auspicious day, they went together. There he saw the most beautiful goddess, Yidrok Lhamo. With the Naga’s help, he captured her with a magical lasso. The hermit sagely advised the fisherman to make an offering of the goddess to young Prince Norsang. The royal family and ministers were amazed at the wisdom and bravery of the humble fisherman. Norsang and Yidrok married and lived blissfully for a while. But Norsang’s five hundred other wives were jealous. With the help of the evil priest, Black Hari, they invented a story of impending war, and Norsang set off with his army, leaving the goddess queen vulnerable.

The jealous queens then conspired to kill Yidrok. Black Hari sent a dream to the mind of the sleeping King Norchen. Asked for his interpretation, Black Hari said the dream meant his kingdom was threatened by a great evil that could be subdued only by a magic rite whose ingredients included the heart of a celestial being. When the jealous queens marched to the palace screaming for the goddess’s heart, Yidrok begged the Queen Mother for her crown and flew away to the Happy Mountain Cave. She told her sad story to the hermit, gave him a ring that was a gift from the Prince, asking him to return it to Norsang, and left for her heavenly home.

Norsang was filled with grief and anger when he returned home to find his beloved gone. With help from the gods, Norsang found the hermit’s cave. The hermit gave him the ring and Yidrok’s instructions. Norsang endured many hardships before he arrived at Yidrok’s heavenly home, only to find her father reluctant to let her return to earth. Her father devised a series of tests to determine if Norsang was worthy of such a heavenly prize. He triumphed in all the competitions and Yidrok was allowed to return with him to their earthly kingdom. Black Hari and the jealous wives were punished and a joyful King Norchen relinquished his throne to Norsang. The Dharma King (Choegyal in Tibetan) Norsang ruled the kingdom wisely and he and his celestial queen lived happily ever after.