Sam Forbes's Page

About Me/Us:

I'm a vegan and a pacifist. I'm a undergraduate student at the University of Washington majoring in Comparative Religion at the Jackson School of International Studies. I'm a practicing Kadampa Buddhist.

Relationship Status:

Single

Movies

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Amelie, I (Heart) Huckabees, Spirited Away, Lost in Translation, Princess Mononoke, Coffee and Cigarettes, Monsoon Wedding, U.S. vs. John Lennon, Kundun, Goodbye Lenin, Red Beard, Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, Farewell My Concubine, The Weeping Camel, The Cave of the Yellow Dog, Cowboy Bebop the Movie, Everything is Illuminated, What The Bleep Do We Know?, Red Violin, Across the Universe, The Matrix, Gandhi, Water, Into the Wild, Vajra Sky Over Tibet,

Television

(actually I don't really watch TV)

Music

Ravi Shankar, Mozart, Beatles, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Beethoven, Stravinsky, Yo-Yo-Ma, Bach, Lata Mangeshkar, Bjork, Anoushka Shankar, John Lennon, the Seatbelts, Propellerheads, Rob Dougan, Joshua Bell, Panjabi MC, Karsh Kale, Niyaz, Tabla Beat Science, Midival Punditz, The Senate, Rachmoninov, Lakshmi Shankar, Alexis V.O., Shake Your Peace, Azam Ali, Vas, Enya, Sheila Chandra, Death in Vegas, Modest Mouse, Fabrizio De Andre

Books

"Walking Through Martha's Vineyard" by Franz Wright
"The Gift" by Hafiz
"We are Three" by Rumi
"Selected Poems" by Allen Ginsberg
"The Songs of Innocence and Experience" by William Blake
"The Open Heart" by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
"The Quantum and the Lotus" by Mattieu Ricard + Trinh Xuan Thuan
"The Monk and the Philosopher" by Jean-Francois Revel + Matthieu Ricard
"Kindness, Clarity, and Insight" by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
"Unworldly Wise: As the Owl Remarked to the Rabbit" by Wei Wu Wei
"The Universe in a Single Atom" by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
"Eight Steps to Happiness" by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
"The Way of Chuang Tzu" by Thomas Merton
"Zen Flesh, Zen Bones" by Paul Reps
"Selected Poems and Four Plays" by William Butler Yeats
"Colossus" by Sylvia Plath
"The Seventh Octave" by Saul Williams
"Essence of Refined Gold" by the Third Dalai Lama
"Joyful Path of Good Fortune" by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
"Ramayana"
"The Upanishads"
"The Splendor of An Autumn Moon" by Tsongkhapa
"Heart of Wisdom" by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
"Meaningful to Behold" by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
"The Meditation Handbook" by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
"En tanglement" by Amir D. Aczel
"Ground Work" by Robert Duncan
"Mind Training: The Great Collection" translated by Thupten Jinpa
"Dakini's Warm Breath"
"Wholeness and the Implicate Order" by David Bohm
"Steppenwolf" by Herman Hesse
"Being Peace" by Thich Naht Hanh
"The Book of Kadam" translated by Thupten Jinpa
"Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk" by Palden Gyatso
"Self Knowledge"

Heroes

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Gandhi, Buddha Shakyamuni, Alan Watts, Ravi Shankar, Albert Einstein, David Bohm, Rumi, Ani Pachen (Tibet's Warrior Nun), Hafiz, Thomas Merton, William Blake, John Lennon, Li Po, Thich Naht Hanh, Je Tsongkhapa