Tibetan Voices 2005 Calendar Author:Brian Harris The loss of traditional cultures is one of the most pressing issues facing modern society. It is this awareness that has motivated photographer Brian Harris to document the lives of the worlds indigenous peoples for over thirty years. For the past fifteen years, Brian has used photography of Himalayan Buddhist culture and landscape to rais... more »e funds and publicity for Sevas sight-restoration projects in Tibet, India, Nepal and Tanzania. Of the 45 million blind people in the world, 90 percent live in poverty 80 percent of this blindness is either preventable or correctable. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this calendar benefit the Seva Sight Programs.
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"As a weather controller, much of my time was spent in a three-story red house built in the very center of the fields I was to protect; from there I could see any clouds approaching. It is well known that, through the study of cloud movements, it is possible to determine the kind of weather that is approaching.... I stopped hailstorms for twenty-two years, until I was forty four, and on no occasion did hail fall on those fields. There are nagpas who possess the skills necessary to bring rain, but my practice only permits me to stop hailstorms."
as told by Karma Lhundup in "Controlling Weather"« less