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New Single 'CHINA' released by Moving Universe

Posted: 09/05/08
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UK release date 19/05/2008 coincides with the arrival of H.H. Dalai Lama in the UK for public talks and teachings from 22/05/2008 at the Royal Albert Hall, London; Nottingham Arena 23- 28/05/2008 and in Oxford 29- 30/05/2008

“Dear Sacha gMullins, Representative Mr. Tsering Tashi has directed me to acknowledge your fax messages regarding the pro-Tibet project and wish you very success in all your projects.” Jampa Gyaltsen, Office of Tibet, London.

CHINA is the only song in the world today that is directly asking the Chinese with their millennia of wisdom, culture and understanding, not to forget this in their dealings with the people of Tibet. The song CHINA and its’ music video are a vox populi call to the Chinese for Human Rights, tolerance and Peace. It is a call to China to restore Right ethics, a call to stop the harm.

The CHINA song includes a key concept, ‘My language is my Nation’. These words uttered and sung gaily by Tibetans at the end of the song, are a call for Human Rights and the right to preserve a language and culture that have been systematically threatened since 1959. For his part the Dalai Lama has worked tirelessly since his exile in India, to promote and preserve the Tibetan language and culture. The song CHINA adds to his effort. In the context of the song the phrase, My language is my Nation, adds tension to the appeal to China to use its ancient wisdom mind and work with the Dalai Lama for autonomy, religious freedom and peace for his people.

Why have we done it?
At Moving Universe Productions Ltd we associate ourselves with the views of H.H. Dalai Lama who asks for autonomy for his country and freedom of religious views for his people that Catholics now have in China as well as Uighur Muslims. Further, we do this as the Dalai Lama prescribes; through non-violent ways, stimulating tolerance, compassion and the gentle-heart. Until the Olympics and beyond, the song CHINA wants to inspire dialogue for peace and Human Rights.
We have made the CHINA song to keep the world talking; about China, her potential for peace, her ability to care for the world, and respect her neighbours; about Tibet, her culture and language, her schools of Buddhism, about the Tibetan’s right to be. Above all, we all need to learn about China in order to help her change positively. As the Dalai Lama said in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech in 1989,
“Any relationship between Tibet and China will have to be based on the principle of equality, respect, trust and mutual benefit. It will also have to be based on the principle which the wise rulers of Tibet and of China laid down in a treaty as early as 823 AD, carved on the pillar which still stands today in front of the Jokhang, Tibet's holiest shrine, in Lhasa, that "Tibetans will live happily in the great land of Tibet, and the Chinese will live happily in the great land of China".

As a Buddhist monk, my concern extends to all members of the human family and, indeed, to all sentient beings who suffer. I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction. Yet true happiness comes from a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood. We need to cultivate a universal responsibility for one another and the planet we share. Although I have found my own Buddhist religion helpful in generating love and compassion, even for those we consider our enemies, I am convinced that everyone can develop a good heart and a sense of universal responsibility with or without religion.

With the ever growing impact of science on our lives, religion and spirituality have a greater role to play reminding us of our humanity. There is no contradiction between the two. Each gives us valuable insights into the other. Both science and the teachings of the Buddha tell us of the fundamental unity of all things. This understanding is crucial if we are to take positive and decisive action on the pressing global concern with the environment.”
Moving Universe productions has recorded the CHINA song to keep this message alive. So that Tibet does not become a part of a forgotten and rewritten Chinese history. So that Tibetans will strive to keep their cultural identity and language alive. So that Universal Responsibility is taught the world over.

To this end, the song and its message is intended as a starting point for an education programme for Human Rights and Peace education. Moving Universe Productions is a new Arts production house that produces projects with the specific aim of uniting people to promote social change through Universal Responsibility. The company uses music, art, drama, film, TV and radio as well as publishing to implement projects ranging in Human Rights to health care. The emphasis is on the production of meaningful unconventional education programmes which depend on collaboration internationally.

During the Dalai Lama’s teachings in Nottingham from 24/05/2008 to 28/05/2008, Moving Universe wants to attract educators to their stall in the Tibetan market area, where information will be made available for lesson content, support and tools. The poem, My language is my Nation has been translated into a dozen languages amongst which are Tibetan, Hindi, Japanese, Spanish, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese and English. These will be available to buy as scroll posters.

The Tibetans have struggled for 49 years to keep their identity. Unless change happens Tibetans like the Manchurians and the Manchu language will altogether disappear. Meanwhile, the post-colonial world has left millions of people with the stark reality of My language is my Nation, as the only cultural and moral identity they can hold on to. Moving Universe Productions proposes education programmes that highlight and celebrate diversity for peace in unity through tolerance and understanding.

Please do not throw this CD away before you have heard it because it is wonderful. To see click here: Youtube

The UK release of the CHINA single will be available for download from 7Digital’s www.indiestore.com from 19/05/2008

The jewel case maxi CD contains a CHINA radio edit and uncut version plus the music video, available from www.movinguniverse.org.uk and at the Tibetan market Nottingham Arena.

ENDS

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Who are MovingUniverse?
On CHINA the MovingUniverse band is M. Gregori, singer, arranger and composer. The China song was written by M. Gregori, lyrics by SRM.

Who are Moving Universe Productions?
Director Sacha gMullins is the founder of the not for profit company that was incorporated in the UK on 10/03/2008. She is realizing her last professional dream to work for people in Universal Education through media she knows and loves best as a conceptual artist, writer, film director and educator. Every project the company implements will also support the work of other charities. On the CHINA project, Moving Universe Productions is supporting the Dalai Lama Foundation and Associazione Italia-Tibet together with Moving Universe, so they can continue to develop their projects.

On the China project conceptual artist Antonio Riello was invited to collaborate showing his Wallpaper Arms series, his Porcelain and Terracotta Arms series and his Ladies Weapons. Based in Italy, Antonio Riello will also be showing in NY later on this year.

Gonkar Gyatso is a Tibetan artist living and working in the UK. His atelier and Tibetan gallery shop are at The Sweet Tea House, Bethnal Green, London. Gonkar’s print Buddha Puzzle is reproduced on the jeweled case CD with the kind permission of Miss Cecily h. Mullins.

Claudio Cardelli, photographer, film maker and musician provided the Tibetan children’s drawing photography, all stills, film footage and Tibetan sound recordings. Cardelli is the vice president of Associazione Italia-Tibet in Italy. The association has worked for the Tibetan people for over 20 years.

Hamish Lyons, editor and film-maker, edited the beautiful sequence of the Chinese invasion in a child’s picture of her country landscape. The music video is a historic document of the violence Tibetan’s have endured since 1959, lest we forget. Most modern Chinese cannot identify the army uniforms their Mao ZeDong first generation parents wore at the time this violence was filmed.

Mic Gregori, singer, musician, songwriter, actor and drama teacher.

Contact information:
Sacha gMullins is often on the move and available for interview. She can be contacted on:
0783 666 3076
and via email at info@movinguniverse.org.uk
Advance apologies for the inactivity of company website which is under construction www.movinguniverse.org.uk
Moving Universe Productions Ltd registered office is at
24 Bedford Square
London WC1B 3HN

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