The Shang-Shung Institute in America is pleased to inform the International Dzogchen Community that arrangements have been made to webcast Chogyal Namkhai Norbu's teachings from Merigar, Italy, on Thursday, August 14, 2003 at 10:00 a.m. local time. This webcast will be open to the general public.

The webcast - a live broadcast on the Internet - is scheduled at 10:00 a.m. sharp local time at Merigar, and will have an approximate duration of two hours. Please refer to the time table below to determine your specific starting local time. This webcast will also be archived for later listening (see details below).

Members of the Dzogchen Community are invited to circulate to other practitioners information about this webcast event, especially to those that do not have access to E-mail. The Gars are requested to use their communication network to spread this information to the local Gakyils; the Gakyils are requested to activate their telephone trees to inform everybody.

Please follow the technical instructions reported below to access the webcast. People that are unable to listen to the live event are advised to read the instructions below on how to listen to the archived audio stream.

We thank Rinpoche for creating this possibility.

ARCHIVED AUDIO STREAM
After the webcast has finished, the audio stream will stay archived at RealImpact's servers until (at least) 14 September, 2003. The audio stream will start being available a few hours after the end of the teachings. This will enable you to listen to the webcast teachings at a later stage if you cannot listen during the time of the live event. You can connect to the archived audio stream using the same connection web pages that are used for the live webcast event (see below).

TECHNICAL INSTRUCTIONS
This Web Cast will be in RealAudio format (sound only) using the reliable services of the professional provider that supplied us with excellent service in the past.

Access to the webcast is possible from any personal computer with an Internet connection and a sound card by using the RealPlayer program available for Windows, Mac and UNIX platforms. A free version of RealPlayer is downloadable for free at the RealAudio website: http://www.real.com

COST
While this webcast is provided to the beneficiaries at no cost, donations meant to contribute to the expenses related to the Tashigar webcast are welcomed and can be mailed to:

The Shang Shung Institute in America P.O. Box 277 Conway, MA 01341

Credit Card contributions are also accepted, as well as wired funds: Bank of Western Massachusetts, 29 State Street, Springfield, MA 01103 Bank Routing number: 011802488 Bank Account routing number for Shang Shung Institute in America: 1436142600

On the connection web pages there is a donation button that you can use for easy contributing to the web cast costs using a credit card.

We greatly encourage everybody to make a donation as generous as possible. If several people are listening in one location, everybody is kindly asked to contribute and money can be collected for this purpose.

WORLD WIDE TIME TABLE
[use the table to determine your local time equivalent to the 10:00 am Merigar/Italy time and connect to the webcast]

Wednesday AUGUST 13, 2003 22:00 Hawai 24:00 Alaska

Thursday AUGUST 14, 2003 01:00 Vancouver, Los Angeles, San Francisco (US Pacific Time) 02:00 Denver (US Mountain Time), Belize 03:00 Chicago (US Central Time) 04:00 New York, Montreal (US Eastern Time) 04:00 Caracas, Santiago, Havana 05:00 Tashigar, Buenos Aires, Sao Paolo 08:00 GMT 09:00 London, Lisbon 10:00 Rome, Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Johannesburg 11:00 Jerusalem, Helsinki, Athens 12:00 Moscow 13:30 Calcutta 13:45 Katmandu 14:00 Dacca 15:00 Bangkok, Jakarta 16:00 Singapore, Hong-Kong 17:00 Tokyo 18:00 Melbourne, Sydney

CONNECTION
You can connect to this webcast using one of the following web pages: http://www.xs4all.nl/~loekjehe/webcast/ or: http://IG.newz.ru/webcast/ or: http://members.ams.chello.nl/a.jehee/