THE TIBET HOUSE BENEFIT CONCERT PAGES


These pages contain journals and images submitted by BowieNet members, of David Bowie's appearance at the twelfth annual Tibet House Benefit. This took place on 22 February 2002 at Carnegie Hall, New York City, to inaugurate the Year of the Water Horse.

Performers and songwriters included David Bowie, Bebel Gilberto, Nawang Khechog, The Kronos Quartet, Patti Smith, Tibetan monks from the Drepung Gomang Monastery, Adam Yauch, and surprise guests Ray Davies, and Chocolate Genius. The benefit took place under the guidance of artistic director and Tibet House Vice President Philip Glass.

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The mission statement of the Tibet House, shown below, is a beautiful summation of the reasons why the organisation has always been able to attract so many very talented musicians to support its cause.

Tibet House is dedicated to the proposition that the wisdom and arts of all human civilizations vitally enrich the emerging global culture.Within this, we focus on a special concern for Tibet, it's people, its spectacular highlands, and its civilization of extraordinary wisdom and beauty. Tibet's vast high plateau is the size of the United States west of the Mississippi. Its mountain snows give rise to Asia's greatest rivers, sustaining the lives of 40% of humanity. The hidden heart of Asia, it has served during the last thousand years of invasion as the treasury of Asia's most sophisticated spiritual arts and sciences. Yet its precious Buddhist civilization of wisdom, compassion, peace, and harmony is under a real threat of imminent extinction. By presenting Tibetan civilization, its profound wisdom and special art of freedom, to the people of the world, we hope to inspire them to join the effort to save it. Tibet House New York is part of a worldwide network of Tibetan institutions committed to ensuring that the light of the Tibetan spirit never disappears from the face of the earth.

OUR WORK IS:

To present to the West Tibet's ancient traditions of art and culture by means of creating a permanent Cultural Center, with Gallery, Library, and Achieves, and developing traveling exhibitions, print publications and media productions;

To preserve and restore Tibet's unique cultural and spiritual heritage, by means of developing a Repatriation Collection for future repatriation of outstanding examples of Tibetan art, creating an achieve of rare photographs, opening a research library, making a Web site on the Internet for the wide distribution of information, and providing support to conservation activities both inside and outside of Tibet;

To share with the world Tibet's practical systems of spiritual philosophy and mind sciences, and its arts of human development, intercultural dialogues, nonviolence, and peacemaking, by means of innovative programs in cooperation with educational and other cultural institutions.

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A special thank you to all the BowieNet members who gave permission to use their photos, video footage and journals on these pages.

Thoughts go to all those BowieNetters who were unable to attend David's performance - this is for you. I hope it assists your imagination :-) SusanS

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a big thank you to David for yet another exceptional performance, which gave fans old and new another chance to fulfill their hopes and dreams. Thanks also to all of you who, as always, made us so welcome in New York. :)) ....Spaceface

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last updated 04/01/02