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Radio Interview with Pistono on NPR's Open Spaces

April 8, 2011
Tags: Radio, In the Shadow of the Buddha, Interview
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WYOMING (WPR) - Matteo Pistono grew up in Wyoming, in Lander. His family was passionate about politics, and Pistono worked on environmental issues in the state. But in the late 90s, he decided to change course. He went to live in the Himalayas, to study Tibetan Buddhism. Pistono tells that story in his new book, In the Shadow of the Buddha. He tells Molly Messick that the decision to go to Tibet very quickly set him on a different kind of path.
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Tibetan Pilgrimage Slideshow at Casper College

April 6, 2011
Tags: In the Shadow of the Buddha, book, Pistono, Wyoming
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Is the Dalai Lama Retiring?

March 15, 2011
Tags: China, Tibet, Dalai Lama, Human Rights
The Huffington Post
Is the Dalai Lama Retiring?
by Matteo Pistono Monday, March 15, 2011

To understand the Dalai Lama's statement yesterday about devolving his political authority to a democratically elected leader, one must keep in mind what the Tibetan leader calls his three commitments. First, as a human being, the Dalai Lama is committed to the promotion of basic human values of compassion and tolerance; secondly, as a Buddhist leader, he works to promote understanding among the major religious traditions; and, thirdly, as the holder of the title "Dalai Lama" which is traditionally the spiritual and political leader of the Tibetans, he is committed to resolving the Tibet issue with China.  Read More 
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Why I Went Public About Smuggling News of Brutal Crackdowns Out of China

March 14, 2011
Tags: Tibet, Dalai Lama, Buddhism, China, Human Rights
The Huffington Post
Why I Went Public About Smuggling News of Brutal Crackdowns Out of China
by Matteo Pistono Monday, March 14, 2011


Today is the anniversary of the 19th century Tibetan mystic named Tertön Sogyal. Tertön Sogyal was a meditation teacher to the 13th Dalai Lama, the predecessor to the current Dalai Lama. In the late 1990s, I began a ten-year pilgrimage to Tibet in Tertön Sogyal's footsteps. I was drawn to this mystic's life because he, like the Dalai Lama today, was a master at integrating his social activism with spiritual practice, never losing the pure motivation that holds others' well-being as the priority. Read More 
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China and the (Next) Dalai Lama

March 10, 2011
Tags: China, Dalai Lama, Tibet, Buddhism, Reincarnation
The Huffington Post
China and the (Next) Dalai Lama
by Matteo Pistono Thursday, March 10, 2011

March 10 marks the anniversary when Tibetans rose up in the streets of Lhasa against China's nascent occupation of Tibet. It is also when a 24-year-old Dalai Lama fled a pursuing Chinese army and eventually crossed Tibet's border into India as a refugee. That was 52 years ago.  Read More 
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Two Journeys Into the World of Tibet by Mindy C. Reiser

February 23, 2011
Tags: In the Shadow of the Buddha, Review, Tim Johnson, Tragedy in Crimson
The Washington Independent Review of BookS
Two Journeys Into the World of Tibet Reviewed by Mindy C. Reiser

Few international issues have drawn such widespread and sustained popular concern as the cause of Tibetan religious and cultural rights. The struggle for Tibetan freedom and self determination, waged now in the face of an increasingly assertive China, has attracted the support of such well known figures as South African Bishop Desmond Tutu, Czech dissident and man of letters Vaclav Havel, and Holocaust survivor and Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel. Richard Gere, Hollywood star and activist, a tireless promoter of Tibetan human rights, serves as chair of the International Campaign for Tibet.  Read More 
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The Secular Buddhist's 30 minute Podcast interview of Matteo Pistono

February 22, 2011
Tags: Interview, In the Shadow of the Buddha, Radio
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Tibetan Pilgrimage slide show and talk for the Jim Ratz Memorial Scholarship Fund

February 19, 2011
Tags: Tibetan Pilgrimage, Lander
Seventy five folks attended my "Tibetan Pilgrimage" slide show and talk in Lander at the historic Noble Hotel. The evening was a benefit for the Jim Ratz Memorial scholarship fund which sends two Fremont County high schoolers up the Grand Teton with Jackson Hole Mountain Guides-a very worth while venture!  Read More 
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Groupon Fails To Curry Favor With Americans, Tibetans or Chinese

February 8, 2011
Tags: Groupon
Groupon Fails to Curry Favor with Americans, Tibetans, or Chinese
Washington Post ON FAITH
Groupon Fails To Curry Favor With Americans, Tibetans or Chinese
By Matteo Pistono Monday, February 8, 2011

Americans know the Chinese government is destroying Tibet’s Buddhist culture. And the American public likes a good deal when it comes to dining out.

Yesterday, during the Super Bowl, the online coupon dealer Groupon ran an advertisement stating exactly that.

Why did Groupon pay 3 million dollars to run a thirty second ad that combines the suffering of Tibetan Buddhists with a cheap meal?  Read More 
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Tibetans: religious freedom. Americans: cheap food-by The Cheapskate Intellectual

February 7, 2011
Tags: Groupon
The Cheapskate Intellectual
Not knowing one end of a football field from the other — except when it comes to Auburn vs. Alabama — I don’t watch the Super Bowl. But the news-clip crawl across the top of my email account this morning made me  Read More 
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