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David B. Hinton

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I am a practicing Buddhist (Tibetan/Vajrayana) and have been a student of the Ven. Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche and Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Donguyal Rinpoche for 23 years. My wife and I became Buddhists together we have made three fascinating pilgrimages to India to visit the holy sites of The Buddha.

After spending a large amount of my life devoted to watching, studying,and teaching about films, I find that at this stage in my life I am more willing to spend my time reading literary fiction, poetry, and history.

I received a B.A. in history from Drake University, after studying my junior year abroad at Schiller College in Heidelberg, Germany.

Later I received an M.A. in Film Studies/Film History from the University of Iowa and a Ph.D. in Hig
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The Films of Leni Riefenstahl

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"Gene (Geneva) Stratton-Porter and this book, The Keeper of the Bees, are both sadly overlooked. The Keeper of the Bees is a classic. It’s a beautiful story, wonderfully written, and filled with characters so real, you think you might meet one of them" Read more of this review »
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Jane Austen
“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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