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10 Questions for the Dalai Lama
2006 Overview: Documentary
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Runtime: 85 min
Angulimala
2003 Overview: Drama
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Runtime: 101 min
Language: English Subtitles:
How do you reconcile a commitment to non-violence when faced with violence? Why do the poor often seem happier than the rich? Must a society lose its traditions in order to move into the future? These are some of the questions posed to His Holiness the Dalai Lama by filmmaker and explorer Rick Ray. Ray examines some of the fundamental questions of our time by weaving together observations from his own journeys throughout India and the Middle East, and the wisdom of an extraordinary spiritual leader. This is his story, as told and filmed by Rick Ray during a private visit to his monastery in Dharamsala, India over the course of several months. Also included is rare historical footage as well as footage supplied by individuals who at great personal risk, filmed with hidden cameras within Tibet. Part biography, part philosophy, part adventure and part
More than 2,500 years ago at Savatti in Jambudipa, the Land of the Rose Apple, Ahimsaka was born of Brahmin parents, the social group of high virtue in the Hindu caste system. Despite his noble birth, Ahimsaka was predestined to become a murderous bandit, killing the people to whom he owed a debt of gratitude. Following his predestination, Ahimsaka was sent to be a disciple of Sati, the head of the Dhisapamoka Academy in Taxila. His father knew of Ahimsaka's destiny but was only interested in postponing the problem. His mother wished that Sati, a promising guru who wished to reach nirvana in the near future, could deliver her son from worldly suffering. Nevertheless, after examining Ahimsaka's cursed
Language: Thai Subtitles: English
Act Normal
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Runtime: 80 min
Asoka
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Runtime: 168 min
A Buddhist monk decides to disrobe and get married after sixteen years of monkhood. Filmed for over ten years. Robert T. Edison was born and raised in Nottingham, England. When he was fourteen years old he began to practice Buddhism. At eighteen he became a monk and went to Thailand where, for a decade, he spent his time in monasteries. He became the first Buddhist monk in Iceland when he moved there in 1994 and founded a Buddhist sect. Five years later Robert decided to disrobe and get married. After sixteen years of celibacy Robert had to deal with being normal getting employment, paying his bills and dealing with the needs of his partner. After four years in the real world Robert travelled back to Thailand to become a monk again. Act
Asoka traces the life of Emperor Asoka, the grandson of Chandragupta Maurya who ascended the throne of Magadha in the 3rd century BC. To extend the borders of his empire, Asoka waged one of the bloodiest wars in history with the neighboring kingdom of Kalinga, leaving it ravaged and devastated. Confronted by the aftermath of his conquest in which hundreds of thousands lost their lives, Asoka is overcome with remorse and renounces the path of war to dedicate his life to spreading the teachings of Buddhisn across the world. This is a story based on legends. This film does not claim to be a complete historical account of Asoka's life
Language: Hindi Subtitles: English
Amongst White Clouds

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Runtime: 86 min
Baraka
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Runtime: 96 min
Language: Mandarin Subtitles: English
An unforgettable journey into the hidden tradition of China's Buddhist hermit monks Amongst White Clouds is an intimate insider's look at students and masters living in scattered retreats dotting China's Zhongnan Mountain range. These peaks have reputedly been home to recluses since the time of the Yellow Emperor, some five thousand years ago. It was widely thought that the tradition was all but wiped out, but this film emphatically and beautifully shows us otherwise. One of only a few foreigners to have lived and studied with these elusive practitioners, American director Edward Burger is able, with humor and compassion, to present their tradition, their wisdom, and the hardship and joy of their everyday lives among the clouds. Filmed on location in China Written and Directed by Edward Burger Produced by Chad Pankewitz A Cosmos
"Baraka" was photographed on six continents in 24 countries including Tanzania, China, Brazil, Japan and Nepal together with major U.S. and European locales. In capturing the planet's glories and violent calamities, "Baraka" tells the spellbinding story of man's diversity and his impact on the world. This is a film that transcends geographical and language barriers to inspire audiences around the world!
Amrapali
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Runtime: 121 min
The Book of the Dead

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Runtime: 69 min
Amrapali is a 1966 historical Hindi film, directed by Lekh Tandon, starring Vyjayanthimala and Sunil Dutt as leads. It was based on the life of Amrapali (Ambapali), the nagarvadhu (royal courtesan) of Vaishali, the capital of the Licchavi republic in ancient India around 500 BC and Ajatashatru, the king of the Magadha empire, who falls in love with her. Though he destroys Vaishali to get her, she in the meantime has been transformed by her encounter with Gautama Buddha, of whom she becomes a disciple and an Arahant herself. Her story finds mention in old Pali texts and Buddhist traditions. The film was selected as the Indian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 39th Academy Awards,
In this ravishing film of mystical beauty, master animator Kihachiro Kawamoto's tour de force adventure tale tells the story of a young noblewoman in 8th-century Japan who leaves her home to follow the apparition of an executed prince. The Book of the Dead takes place as Buddhism is being introduced to Japan from China. Iratsume, a woman of noble desent, becomes obsessed with this mysterious new religion. One night, in a rapturous trance, she sees a luminous vision that she believes to be the Buddha, compelling her to leave home and journey to a sacred temple. Once there, she sees Otsu, a young prince who was executed 50 years earier. While Iratsume mistakes the prince's spirit for the incarnation of the great Buddha, the ghost mistakes
Language: Japanese Subtitles: English
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The Buddha (PBS)

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Runtime: 120 min
The Burmese Harp

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Runtime: 116 min
Two and a half millennia ago, a new religion was born in northern India, generated from the ideas of a single man, the Buddha, a mysterious Indian sage who famously gained enlightenment while he sat under a large, shapely fig tree. The Buddha never claimed to be God or his emissary on earth. He said only that he was a human being who, in a world of unavoidable pain and suffering, had found a kind of serenity that others could find, too. This documentary by award-winning filmmaker David Grubin tells the story of his life, a journey especially relevant in our own bewildering times of violent change and spiritual confusion. Richard Gere narrates.
An Imperial Japanese Army regiment surrenders to British forces in Burma at the close World War II and finds harmony through song. A private, thought to be dead, disguises himself as a Buddhist monk and stumbles upon spiritual enlightenment. Magnificently shot in hushed black and white, Kon Ichikawa's The Burmese Harp is an eloquent meditation on beauty coexisting with death and remains one of Japanese cinema's most overwhelming antiwar statements, both tender and brutal in its grappling with Japan's wartime legacy.
Buddha's Lost Children

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Runtime: 93 min
The Cave of the Yellow Dog

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Runtime: 93 min
A rare look at life way beyond the view of most, filmed on location among the hill tribes in the border regions of Burma and Thailand, the Golden Triangle infamous for its drug lords and violence. A nomadic, horseback-riding Buddhist monk, Phra Kru Ba, a former boxer known as the "Tiger Monk," devotes his life to helping the isolated communities there, and rescuing orphan children. With his Golden Horse Temple he's built an orphanage, school and clinic a haven for the children of the region, who see him as a shaman, father figure and coach. Stunning cinematography, intimate filmmaking and a compelling story make this film an extraordinary experience of a hidden realm. Buddha's Lost Children gives the term "grassroots Buddhism" new meaning,
Language: Mongolian Subtitles: English
Engaging tale of nomadic life in Mongolia from the director of The Story of the Weeping Camel. Nasal is growing up fast but only has her family for company. When she finds a young pup, she wants to adopt him despite the disapproval of her father. As they prepare to move on, she must make one of the hardest decisions of her young life so far. A blend of documentary real-life and improvised drama, it features a real-life family who bring naturalness and warmth to a gently thought-provoking film.
Buddha's Sons: The Story Of Himalaya's Little Lamas

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Cloud Path, Journey of a Wandering Monk

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Runtime: 53 min
Runtime: 64 min
Himalayan children, barely of school age, are sent to Buddhist monasteries to apprentice as young Iamas. This film takes us along on the journey of three such children through daily rituals, games, a scripture contest, and festival preparations. On a winter holiday break, they return home and reunite with their families. Through the rare glimpse of this homecoming we see that-like any other children-they carry the collective hopes of their families an dthose of their teachers.
Language: Korean Subtitles: English
?Cloud Path, Journey of a Wandering Monk? is a documentary about a distinguished Buddhist monk. This was originally a locally produced TV program that had been aired in Korea and was selected by the Korea Foundation as an outstanding work for introducing Korean culture abroad. The original content has been dubbed into English, French, and Spanish. The documentary records the activities of Paul Muenzen (Buddhist name: Hyongak ??), a Harvard University graduate who became a monk, as he learns the Manhaeng (??), experiences of the secular world. Along with its highly acclaimed cinematography, various aspects of Korea's rich traditional culture, such as samulnori (????) and onggi (crockery ??), are seen through the eyes of this American monk.
Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country

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Runtime: 84 min
Come Come Come Upwards

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Runtime: 120 min
Burma VJ (English: Burma VJ Reporting from a Closed Country) is a 2009 documentary film directed by Anders stergaard. It follows the September 2007 uprisings against the military regime in Burma. It was filmed entirely on hand-held cameras, and the footage was smuggled out of the country. Armed with pocket-sized video cameras, a tenacious band of Burmese reporters face down death to expose the repressive regime controlling their country. In 2007, after decades of self-imposed silence, Burma became headline news across the globe when peaceful Buddhist monks led a massive rebellion. More than 100,000 people took to the streets protesting a cruel dictatorship that has held the country hostage for more than 40 years. Foreign news crews were banned, the Internet
This Buddhist classic, starring Kang Su Yeon and Jin Yong Mi, follows the divergent paths of two young nuns. Both leave the temple and weather the challenges of an earthly world that tests their faith. When the two women finally return to the temple, their fates could not be more different.
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

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Runtime: 120 min
Destroyer of Illusion
2006 Overview: Boston Globe "Jewel of a documentary." Product Description First time on DVDAs Seen on PBS Documentary
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Runtime: 57 min
Two master warriors (CHOW YUN FAT and MICHELLE YEOH) are faced with their greatest challenge when the treasured Green Destiny sword is stolen. A young aristocrat (ZHANG ZIYI) prepares for an arranged marriage, but soon reveals her superior fighting talents and her deeply romantic past. As each warrior battles for justice, they come face to face with their worst enemy and the inescapable, enduring power of love.
Set against 19th-century China's breathtaking landscape, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is the action-packed, box office smash from acclaimed director Ang Lee (Sense and Sensibility, The Ice Storm) featuring stunning martial arts choreography by Yuen Wo Ping (The Matrix).
The Secret World of a Tibetan Lama Unprecedented access and intimate knowledge inform this richly detailed and beautifully filmed portrait of a secret Tibetan Buddhist ritual, the Mani Rimdu festival, and the remarkable spiritual teacher, Trulshik Rinpoche, who leads and preserves this centuries-old tradition. Richard Gere narrates with the clarity and resonant depth of an insider. This is a very special chance to witness a private sacred realm as if you were there. Filmed on location in Nepal
The Cup
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Runtime: 93 min
The Devil's Temple

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Runtime: 76 min
Language: Tibetan Subtitles: English
Inspired by a true story, "The Cup" (written and directed by Buddhist monk Khyentse Norbu) is set in a monastery-in-exile in the foothills of the Himalayas where hundreds of young boys study the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Two refugee boys, Nyima and Palden, new to the monastery and immediately become involved in the daily routine of monastic life, meeting others like the soccer-obsessed Orygen and the easy-going Lodo. Against the wishes of their master Geko, Orygen convinces Palden and Lodo to sneak out to watch a soccer match. Caught by their master Geko, this growing soccer craze was brought to teh attention of teh Abbot who ponders how to deal with the boys' interest in such modern attractions. Despite being reprimanded, Orygen is determined to see the impending World Cup match, even if it means bringing
An abandoned temple in the mountains outside of the old capital city of Kyoto is the scene of a fated meeting between a traveling priest, two women, and a vicious killer, known thoughout Japan as "Mumyo no Taro". Katsu Shintaro is brilliant as the young lord, turned thief in this stunning masterpiece from filmmaker Misumi Kenji. Bloody violence erupts whenever strangers approach the temple. Can the traveling priest bring his belief in the Buddha and rid the three temple residents of the devils that hold their souls?
Dalai Lama - Discourse on the Heart Sutra

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Runtime: 58 min
The Dhamma Brothers

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Runtime: 76 min
The Dalai Lama discusses and explains the Heart Sutra, the succinct but profound sutra regarded as the summation of the wisdom of Buddha. An interview with the Dalai Lama by Japanese producer Kozo Otani in which His Holiness answers questions about the Heart Sutra, its practice and meaning, including its use in daily life. The Dalai Lama explains the meaning of the mantra in the Heart Sutra and discusses emptiness, interdependence and infinite altruism. He also particularly recommends combining the study of the Heart Sutra and Prajnaparamita with the understanding of Buddha nature.
The Dhamma Brothers is a documentary film released in 2007 about a prison meditation program at Donaldson Correctional Facility in Bessemer, Alabama. The film concentrates on four inmates, all convicted of murder. It also includes interviews of guards, prison officials, and local residents.[2] It includes reenactments of the inmates' crimes.[3] Music for the film is by Low, New Order and Sigur Rs.[4]
The film has been compared to an earlier documentary, released in 1997, titled Doing Time, Doing Vipassana. That film documented a large scale meditation program at Tihar Prisons in India with over a thousand inmates using the same meditation retreat format.[5][4] The film is directed by Jenny Philips, a cultural
Departures
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Runtime: 131 min
Discovering Buddhism
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Runtime: 343 min
When his orchestra disbands, Daigo Kobayashi (Masahiro Motoki) decides to start over and moves back to his small hometown. Desperate for work, he secretly takes a job as a "Nokanshi", a funeral professional who prepares the deceased for burial and entrance into the next life. But while working with the families of the departed, Daigo embarks on a spiritual journey of his own as he finally experiences the joy and wonder of living.
Discovering Buddhism is a unique production, beautifully conceived, designed and photographed to give a brief, yet profound, introduction to the vast subject of Buddhism. The thirteen topics range from Mind and Its Potential, How to Meditate, Wisdom of Emptiness to Introduction to Tantra. These topics include segments on Bodhichitta, Refuge, The Path, and Daily Practice. Each 30-minute video is presented in the form of a complete practice: Introduction, Motivation, Teachers, Students, and Dedication. Opening each video, and between each segment, there are a series of visual montages in which we experience stunning images of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Lama Yeshe, Lama Zopa Rinpoche, processions of monks, and many other precious vignettes accompanied by Tibetan music and chanting. There is wisdom, blessing
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Dreaming Lhasa
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Runtime: 90 min
Fancy Dance
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Runtime: 101 min
Tibetan filmmaker Karma travels from New York to Dharamsala, the Dalai Lamas exile headquarters in northern India, to produce a documentary about former political prisoners who have escaped from Tibet. There she meets Dhondup, an enigmatic ex-monk who has come to India is to fulfill his dying mothers last wish - to deliver a charm box to a long-missing resistance fighter. Soon Karma finds herself in love with Dhondup and is pulled deeper into his quest, which becomes both a journey into Tibets fractured past and a voyage of self-discovery.
Yohei (Masahiro Motoki), a punk rocker, has to struggle between the appeal of modern life in Tokyo and his obligation as an eldest son to take over his father's position as abbot of a rural Zen temple. Though initially rebelling against the tough monastic discipline, Yohei learns to adjust. However his girlfriend shows up, enticing him to return to his rock 'n' roll roots...
Language: Japanese Subtitles: Chinese
Enlightenment Guaranteed
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Runtime: 105 min
Festival: Im Kwon Taek Collection

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Runtime: 106 min
Two very different brothers get together for a temporary stay in a Japanese zen monastry. The trip from Germany to Japan brings up some unexpected quests they have to manage. Soon both really have to leave their ordinary lifes behind and are on a voyage to themselves.
The death of the matriarch brings the entire family back to the home village. New and old conflicts are raised when the family reunites, even as they try to cope with their lost. Festival takes a look at the glorious tradition of Korean funerals, a culture rarely seen by outsiders.
Language: German Subtitles: English
Eve & the Fire Horse

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Runtime: 92 min
Fight Club
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Runtime: 139 min
Eve is a precocious nine year-old girl with a wild imagination growing up in a traditional Chinese immigrant family in Vancouver where Confucian doctrines, superstitious obsessions and divine visions abound. When Buddhism and Catholicism are thrown into the mix, life for Eve and her 11-year-old prim and authoritative sister, Karena, escalates into a fantasia of catastrophe, sainthood and cultural confusion. 'Eve and the Fire Horse' will pierce viewers' hearts with its lyrical, humorous and emotional journey of a young girl and her sister striving to grow up in a world where childhood is lonely and the world is full of wonder.
A ticking-time bomb insomniac (Edward Norton) and a slippery soap salesman (Brad Pitt) channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until a sensuous eccentric (Helena Bonham Carter) gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion. The New York Times raved that FIGHT CLUB "just might require another viewing." Here's your chance. Brace yourself.
Faith & Reason: Pema Chodron

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Runtime: 50 min
Gandhi
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Runtime: 191 min
One of North America's most prominent practitioners of Buddhist monasticism, Ani Pema Chdrn has written extensively on Buddhist principles in the context of everyday living. Bill Moyers talks with the author of When Things Fall Apart, The Places That Scare You, and No Time to Lose about ideas and teachings that have special significance for western Buddhists-and will resonate with non-Buddhists as well.
Gandhi was not a ruler of nations, nor did he have scientific gifts. Yet this small, modest man did what others before him could not. He led an entire country to freedom - he gave his people hope. Gandhi, the man of the century, is explored in this breathtaking, unforgettable motion picture. After 20 years in the making, this masterful epic garnered nine 1982 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Original Screenplay. In stirring detail, Gandhi's life, principles and power explode on the screen with vivid scenes such as the horrific massacre at Amristar, where the British opened fire on 15,000 unarmed men, women and children, and the dramatic march to the sea where Gandhi led thousands of his fellow Indians to prove that
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Groundhog Day
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Runtime: 101 min
Himalaya
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Runtime: 104 min
Bill Murray at his wry, wisecracking best in this riotous romantic comedy about a weatherman caught in a personal time warp on the worst day of his life. Teamed with a relentlessly cheerful producer (Andie MacDowell) and a smart-aleck cameraman (Chris Elliott), TV weatherman Phil Connors (Bill Murray) is sent to Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, to cover the annual Groundhog Day festivities. But on his way out of town, Phil is caught in a giant blizzard, which he failed to predict, and finds himself stuck in small-town hell. Just when things couldn't get worse, they get worse; Phil wakes the next morning to find it's Groundhog Day all over again... and again... and again.
Tinle is the central character of the film, which is based on his real life. Tinle is upright, proud, enthusiastic, passionate, full of wisdom and humor. An old chief, who when faced with the mysterious death of his son, decides to resume leading the ritual yak caravan and prevent a rival clan from assuming power. We had known each other for twenty years and had dreamt about making this film for some time. He had all the discipline, patience, perseverance the film needed. Despite many unexpected events - delays due to bad weather, or disagreements - Tinle and his friends have held on to a common dream to capture Tibetan culture on film.
Heaven & Earth

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Runtime: 140 min
Himalaya, Where The Wind Dwells

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Runtime: 94 min
From three-time Academy Award-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone*whose Platoon took you to the Vietnam battlefront and whose Born on the Fourth of July took you to the American homefront comes an acclaimed movie about the fight to survive on both fronts. Tommy Lee Jones and Joan Chen turn in award-caliber performances (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone) in the powerful story of a man who fought, a woman who enduredand a love caught up in the explosive wartime upheaval of a land and a people caught between Heaven and Earth. *Best Director for Platoon (1986) and Born on the Fourth of July (1989) and Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium for Midnight Express.
Choi (Choi Min-sik) has some problems concerning his job and to make things even worse one day one of his colleagues dies in an accident at work. Choi takes the ashes of the nepalese worker Dorgy and wants to hand them over this his family. However, when he gets to Nepal he realizes that he isn't prepared for the enormous struggles that come with climbing the Himalaya. Fighting the elements he somehow manages with great efforts to get to the place where Dorgy's family lives, but he almost dies due to mountain sickness. Dorgy's wife (Tsering Kipale Gurung) and the rest of the family nurses him until he gets better and in the following days Choi makes friends with Dorgy's son (Tenjing Sherpa). Choi finds a completely different culture and way of life on the Himalaya which has a special appeal on him. Nonetheless, he still has to
Hi, Dharma!
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Runtime: 95 min
Himalayas: Science of the Mind

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Runtime: 186 min
In this critcally acclaimed action comedy from Korea, a group of thugs running away from an escalating gang war find refuge in a Buddhist monestary. As they don the robes and settle in, the gangster's rascal-like behavior begins to wear on the monks who decide to come up with a series of games for their obnoxious guests.
Ethnobotanist and anthropologist Wade Davis takes us with him on a journey to four remote parts of the Earth for a meditation on what it means to be human, and what the loss of human cultures signifies. Episodes 3. Himalayas: Science of the Mind Buddhism asks the fundamental question: What is life and what is the point of existence? Wade Davis goes on an anthropological and spiritual journey into the Himalayas of Nepal to learn the deepest lesson of Buddhist practice. Parts of this documentary feature H.H.Trulshik Rinpoche and Matthieu Ricard.
Hi, Dharma 2: Showdown in Seoul

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Runtime: 99 min
Hoichi the Earless

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Runtime: 62 min
As a sequel to box office smash "Hi, Dharma!" released two years ago, "Hi, Dharma 2 - Showdown in Seoul" continues to offer a hilarious tale over its monks versus gangsters plot. Following the last wish of an old master, three monks head to Seoul to rest his remains in the Mushim Temple. However, they discover that the heavily indebted host monk has abandoned the temple and its inhabitants. Aware of the difficult situation the remaining monks that also include children have to face, the three monks make every effort to help the temple by promoting it to the public and raising funds through donations. Just when things begin to look much brighter, a team of four gangsters reach the temple indicating their need to reclaim it for an urban redevelopment
The blind boy Hoichi (Nakamura Katsuo) lives at a temple near Dan-no-ura, the place of the final epic battle between the declining Taira clan and their Minamoto rivals in 1185. Hoichi's peerless musicianship raises the ghosts of the fallen Taira warriors and the drowned Emperor Antoku from their watery graves. They command Hoichi to perform the Heike tale and he agrees, not knowing that he is obliging ghosts. The nightly efforts soon drain his strength and the head priest (Shimura Takashi) takes notice. When the priest discovers the true nature of Hoichi nightly disappearances, he orders his body covered with sacred writings. When the ghost warrior (Tanba Tetsuro) returns, he cannot see Hoichi whose entire body is protected by the magical charms. Entire, that is, with the exception of his ears, which the negligent priest has
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The Holy Man

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Runtime: 107 min
Into the Wild

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Runtime: 148 min
Brother Theng, a young monk, moves to a village whose inhabitants still believe in ghosts and spirits. He attempts to convert the villagers' beliefs to more conventional ones, but he has to deal with tough situations that come along with humor
Into the Wild is inspired by the true story of Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch), a young man who abandons his life of comfort to pursue the freedom of life on the road, a quest that leads him to the Alaskan wilderness and the ultimate challenge of his life. Screenplay and directed by Sean Penn and featuring an all-star cast including William Hurt, Marcia Gay Harden, Vince Vaughn, Catherine Keener and Hal Holbrook, Into the Wild is "as stirring, entertaining and steadfastly thrilling as it is beautiful." (Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal)
House M.D. - "The Tyrant" / Compassionate Violence

2009 Overview: Season 6, Episode 3 Drama
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King of the Hill/The Simpsons

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Runtime: 50 min
Runtime: 180 min
When a controversial African politician falls ill, he is brought to Princeton Plainsboro for treatment. The team struggles with whether to help a merciless dictator being subpoenaed for crimes against humanity in his country. Prof. Steve Jenkins of Humboldt State University delivered a lecture at the IBS titled Compassionate Violence, Torture and Warfare in the Bodhisattva Ideal Buddhist allowances for compassionate torture, killing, and warfare are dissonant with with the established perception of Buddhist pacifism. While academic studies of Buddhism have accepted that Mahayana and
King of the Hill - "Won't You Pimai Neighbor?" Season 4 Episode 18 A group of Buddhist monks suspects that Bobby might be the reincarnation of the Lama Sanglug. Bobby enjoys getting caught up in Buddhism, until he and Connie learn that Lamas are not allowed to have girlfriends. The Simpsons - "She of Little Faith" Season 13 Episode 6 Bart orders a model rocket and Homer builds and tries to launch it. With help from some nerds and a hamster named Nibbles, a new rocket is built and launched, but results in the church being destroyed. The church looks to rebuild and Montgomery Burns offers his help, but
How to Cook Your Life

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Runtime: 88 min
Korean Seon (Zen) Story

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Runtime: 174 min
This documentary profiles Zen Master Edward Espe Brown and shows the art of Zen and cooking. Espe Brown first became interested in baking as an 11-year kid when he realized the startling difference between mass-produced supermarket bread and the fresh homemade stuff. When he asked his mother to teach him how to bake, however, she said "No, yeast makes me nervous."
A 3 DVD KBS News documentary on Korean Zen.
Brown became the head cook at the Tassajara Mountain Centre in California when he was in his early 20s, and has been practicing the art of Zen Buddhism and cooking for more than 40 years. As a chef, he is typically short-tempered and exacting, but as a Buddhist master he is exactly the opposite. Director Drrie (Men, Naked) sets her camera on Espe Brown as he travels
I Heart Huckabees
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Runtime: 106 min
Kundun: Widescreen
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Runtime: 134 min
An exuberant offbeat comedy in which Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin play detectives hired by kindhearted local poet & activist Albert Markovski (Jason Schwartzman) to investigate the meaning of three coincidences that could hold the key to life. The investigation soon involves other clients such as passionate, vulnerable fireman Tom Corn (Mark Wahlberg), cunning sales exec Brad Stand (Jude Law) and hot spokesmodel with an identity crisis Dawn Campbell (Naomi Watts). The hilarious case is further complicated when the detectives' seductive French nemesis Caterine Vauban (Isabelle Huppert) lures Albert and Tom into her way of seeing things. Outstanding performances and outrageous comedy make this smart, elating, poignant film from director David O. Russell "a snort-out-loud-funny masterclass of
Praised as one of the best films of the year, Kundun is a motion picture masterpiece directed by five-time Academy Award-nominated* director Martin Scorsese. It's the incredible true story of one of the world's most fascinating leaders Tibet's Dalai Lama and his daring struggle to rule a nation at one of the most challenging times in its history. Powerfully told and set against a backdrop of world politics the film's release created an international uproar! Featuring a striking, Oscar-nominated** score by renowned composer Philip Glass, this extraordinary motion picture has been greeted with both controversy and worldwide acclaim experience it for yourself! *GoodFellas 1990 Director, Best Adapted Screenplay; The Last Temptation Of Christ 1980
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Letter from the Mountain

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Runtime: 128 min
A Little Monk
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Runtime: 100 min
As the film begins, Takao (Akira Terao) and Michiko (Kanako Higuchi) have already pulled up their Tokyo roots and moved to a village that is Takao's ancestral home. They visit a thatched cottage that serves as a memorial shrine (amidado) for the village dead and chat with the attendant, the spry 96-year-old Oume (Tanie Kitabayashi). Together they admire the view -- from an inspiring distance. Oume, it turns out, is a kind of sage, whose thoughts and observations are a popular feature in a column in a local newsletter. Her amanuensis is a mute, sweetly smiling young woman named Sayuri (Manami Konishi), who is as devoted to Oume as Oume is to the souls of her beloved dead. Takao also reunites with Koda-sensei (Takahiro Tamura), his beloved junior high-school teacher, now
Three monks born in totally different generations are thrown together by fate living together in a secluded mountain temple. Nine year-old Do-nyeom (Kim Tae-jin) still cannot shake off the memory of his mother and refers to a widow that frequently visits the temple as substitute mother. Even though 20 year-old Jung-sim (Kim Min-kyo) has been living as monk for quite a few years, he also has not been able to get rid of his ordinary feelings whenever he sees a girl. Since he is unable to pass this final test, he decides to give up being a monk and to return to his common life. The temple elder does not know whether to laugh or cry about the behavior of his disciples...
Life of Buddha (BBC)

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Runtime: 90 min
Marathon Monks of Mount Hiei

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Runtime: 57 min
The quest for enlightenment known as Buddhism is rapidly attracting followers in the western world today. His Holiness the Dalai Lama is a best-selling author and his personal appearances in the U.S draw huge crowds. Popular films such as LITTLE BUDDHA, KUNDUN, and SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET have also fueled American curiosity. LIFE OF BUDDHA breaks new ground in revealing the fascinating story of Prince Siddhartha and his spiritual transformation into the Buddha, the great teacher who changed the entire world. This beautifully produced DVD, featuring nearly an hour of additional materials from the worlds leading Buddhist scholars and spiritual leaders, is a must-see for anyone seeking answers to lifes mysteries.
The greatest athletes in the world today are neither the Olympic champions nor the stars of professional sports, but the "Marathon Monks" of Japan's sacred Mount Hiei. Over a seven year training period, these "running Buddha" figuratively circle the globe on foot. During one incredible 100-day stretch, they cover 52.5 miles daily twice the length of an Olympic marathon. The prize they seek is not a pot of gold, but enlightenment in the here and now.
This documentary program is about one of these amazing men - Tanno Kakudo and the magic mountain where he trains. It is the philosophy of Tendai Buddhism, which inspires him in his quest for the supreme. The viewer will learn about the monk's death-defying fast, his vegetarian training diet, his
The Lion's Roar

2006 Overview: The Classic Profile of the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa Documentary
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The Matrix
1999 Overview: Perception: Our day-in, day-out world is real. Drama
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This is the masterful portrait of the late 16th Gyalwa Karmapa, the great Tibetan Buddhist master known as the Black Hat Lama. His line of successive reincarnations has its origins in the 13th century when it was the first to identify tulkus, reincarnations of Buddhist teachers. He is recognized as the embodiment of the teachings of the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, one that traces its source through Tibets greatest teachers Milarepa and Marpa to Indias Naropa and Tilopa all the way back to the Shakyamuni Buddha himself. Features rare footage of renowned Tibetan Buddhist lamas Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Kalu Rinpoche,
Reality: That world is a hoax, an elaborate deception spun by all powerful machines of artificial intelligence that control us. Whoa. Mind-warp stunts. Techno-slammin' visuals. Mega-kick action. Keanu Reeves and Laurence Fishburne lead the fight to free humankind in 'The Matrix', the see-and-see-again cyberthriller written and directed by the Wachowski brothers ('Bound'). The story sears, the special effects stake out new moviemaking territory - the movie flat-out rocks.
Little Buddha
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Meditate and Destroy

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Keanu Reeves (The Matrix) and Bridget Fonda (Jackie Brown) star in this motion picture spectacular from Academy Award-winning director Bernardo Bertolucci (The Last Emperor). In a big American city, a boy and his family (Fonda and Chris Isaak The Silence Of The Lambs) discover a story about a prince in a land of miracles. But the miracle becomes real when Tibetian monks appear, searching for their leader's reincarnation who they believe has been reborn in the boy. Suddenly their worlds meet, leading the Americans on an extraordinary adventure!
MEDIATE AND DESTROY takes you into the world of punk rock, spirituality and internal rebellion through the eyes of bestselling author Noah Levine (Dharma Punx, Against the Stream). This powerful film examines the driving forces that transformed Levine from a violent, addicted rebel to a dedicated teacher and community leader. Tattoos, motorcycles, music, peace and Buddha all work to tell the inspiring story of finding new paths.
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Mekhong Full Moon Party

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Monkey Magic: The Movie

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More than 100,000 people gather by the Mekong River in Northeast Thailand on November Full Moon each year. After sunset, mysterious fireballs rise up from the river and disappear into the sky. While the locals still adhere to the traditional myth of the dragon, Great Naga, making a sacred offering to Buddha, the Western visitors take a more skeptical stance: Dr. Norati sets out to prove that the fireballs are natural; Dr. Surapol wants to prove the phenomenon a hoax. Meanwhile, temple-custodian Abbot Loh believes his monks have been responsible for the "miracle" for the past 30 years.
On the way to India to collect ancient holy scrolls, the sacred priest, Tripitaka, and his loyal band of followers led by monkey are implored by a mysterious princess to protect her people from a powerful demon warlord, King Gold horn, and his tyrannical brother, King Silver Horn. They have wrestled control of the palace, plundered its riches and transformed tHe royal family into terrapin tortoises. Mischievous monkey, Sandy, Pigsy and Tripitaka must combine their strength to defeat the evil warlords and prevent the world from being plunged into darkness forever!
Milarepa: Magician, Murderer, Saint

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Mountain Patrol
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In his directorial debut, Buddhist lama Neten Chokling vividly presents the captivating story of Milarepa, the man who would become Tibet s greatest yogi and saint. In the dramatic setting of 11th century Tibet- a time of roaming sorcerers and yogis, according to Buddhist legend- a young Milarepa falls into a world of betrayal and hardships. The greed of others upturns his privileged life, dropping him into a void of despair, humiliation, pain and anger. He sets out to learn black magic- and exact revenge on his enemies- encountering magicians, demons, an enigmatic teacher and unexpected mystical power along the way. But it is in confronting the consequence of his quest for vengeance that he learns the most. Filmed on the breathtaking scenic Indo-Tibetan border, with Tibetan monks serving as most of the cast and crew, Milarepa glows with a
From the award-winning director of "The Missing Gun" comes a powerful and uncompromising film based on a true story. Under the heavenly blue sky of Kekexili lies a wilderness of unimaginable beauty. Is it heaven or is it hell? Or is it a battleground between conscience and greed? Only those who have been there know the answer.
When GaYu (Zhang Lei), a journalist from Beijing, arrives at the mystical camp of the Kekexili Mountain Patrol, he witnesses Tibetan funeral rites and a village in mourning. GaYu is determined to uncover the real story behind the mysterious disappearance of patrol volunteers, the cruel slaughtering of Tibetan antelopes,
Mongolian Ping Pong

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My Dinner with Andr

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Runtime: 112 min
A ping pong ball, found floating in a stream, becomes the source of wonderment for three young boys who live in the remote grasslands of Mongolia, a magnificent landscape little changed since the time of Genghis Khan. Bilike, the ball's discoverer, assumes it's a bird egg. His wizened grandmother proclaims it a magic pearl. Unconvinced, the boys take the ball to the monastery, but even the grasslands' most knowledgeable inhabitants are stumped. When a television show (seen on the region's only set) reveals that the object is the "national ball of China," the determined young scouts decide to embark upon a journey to return the precious talisman to the Chinese capital.
Language: Mongolian Subtitles: English
In Louis Malle's captivating and philosophical My Dinner with Andr, actor and playwright Wallace Shawn sits down with friend and theater director Andr Gregory at an Upper West Side restaurant, and the two proceed into an alternately whimsical and despairing confessional on love, death, money, and all the superstition in between. Playing variations on their own New Yorkhoned personas, Shawn and Gregory, who also wrote the screenplay, dive in with introspective, intellectual gusto, and Malle captures it all with a delicate, artful detachment. A fascinating freeze-frame of cosmopolitan culture, My Dinner with Andr remains a unique work in cinema history.
The Monkey Goes West

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Nichiren & The Great Mongol Invasion

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By order of Emperor Tai Tsung, Tang Hsuan-chuang, also known as Tripitaka, leaves for the West with his attendants in search of certain scriptures. After several days of arduous trekking, the group reaches a forest at sundown and camps for the night. To his consternation, Tripitaka finds all his men have been devoured by wild beasts during the night, and he himself made prisoner of the King of Demons. He manages to flee the devil's clutches and starts scaling the Five-Finger-Mountain in pitch darkness. He spots Monkey King, Sun Wu-kung, who has been imprisoned under rocks for several thousand years. Tripitaka sets him free. In gratitude, Monkey subdues the Dragon Prince and gives his White Dragon Steed to Tripitaka for the long and dangerous journey ahead. The grateful Monkey, now converted by the Goddess of Mercy,
As Japan prepares to face the greatest crisis in that countrys glorious history, a solitary Monk named Nichiren proposes a theory that, while it goes against commonly held beliefs of the time, still offers a possible solution. His firm belief in the teachings of the Lotus Sutra lead first to grave problems, including attempts on his life, and exile to a penal colony on Sado Island; a place from which nobody has ever returned. How Nichiren overcame these obstacles to lead Japan in prayer as the Mongol fleet approached is one of the great stories from Japanese history, and must be seen to be believed. Never before, and never since, has a motion picture told the story of how the Japanese battled on the beaches, while the Gods themselves massed their great Typhoon, called Kamikaze to defeat Kublai Khans overwhelming hordes!
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OK Baytong
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Oseam
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Tum is a young man who has been a monk living in a Buddhist temple in Thailand since he was 5 years old. But after hearing that his sister has been killed in an attack on a train by insurgents, he decides to leave the monastery and make his way to southern Thailand where his sister ran a beauty salon in a town called Betong in a district in Yala Province on the border with Malaysia.
A poet and master storyteller, JEONG pioneered a new genre called fairy tales for adults with his popular publications, many of which were translated into French and German. A fairy tale about a five-year-old boy who enters Nirvana, Oseam weaves heart-wrenching episodes of a child who goes on a search for his mother and finds her in a miraculous finale. Since its first publication in 1983, it sold more than 100,000 copies in Korea.
In looking to put his sister's affairs in order, Tum finds himself conflicted. Should he take over his sister's business? His sister has a daughter, by a Muslim man who lives on the Malaysian side of the border. Should Tum try to take a greater role in the raising of the child? But first, Tum must figure out how to zip up his trousers
Blind girl, Gami, and her five-year-old brother, Gilson, only have each other in the world. Having no home to return to in the cold winter, the two kids start their life at a Buddhist temple. Wanting to see his mother, even if for just one brief moment, Gilson decides to follow the monk to a temple on a remote mountain to learn to see
Old Partner
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Passage to Buddha
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From first-time filmmaker Lee Chung-Ryoul comes an award-winning feature documentary, Old Partner, which broke box office records in Korea as the highest grossing independent film in Korean history. Old Partner is an eloquent, touching, yet gut-wrenching peek into the reality of Mr. Choi Won-Kyun and his relationship with his 40-year-old ox. In the backdrop of what seems to be a dying way of life for many farmers in modern-day South Korea, the old couple perseveres while his wife, Lee Sam-Soon, bickers and complains about her own unlucky fate. There is no denying that this particular ox is a beast of burden, but it is also cherished and loved as the old man s constant and dependable companion. The original Korean title of the film, Wonangsori, literally translates to sound of a cowbell which dominates the audio track throughout the 78-minute documentary as a
A young boy mourns the death of his father, and begins a quest to find his mother. He encounters many people on the way who quote Buddhist precepts: an eccentric monk, a girl who grows up into a young woman, a prison inmate, a foul-mouthed doctor and the young son of a hard drinking astronomer. Each of them tell the boy to seek someone to help him find the truth and his mother.
One: The Movie

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A Path to Happiness: His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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In a divided post 9-11 world, first-time filmmaker Ward Powers asks life's ultimate questions of world renowned spiritual leaders and ordinary people. ONE: The Movie weaves the diverse answers, exploring topics of war and peace, fear and love, suffering, god, life after death, and the ultimate meaning of life. The answers reflect global diversity, while emphasizing the oneness of humanity.
Considered one of the greatest influencers of our time, the Dalai Lama has spent his life teaching people how to be happy. Being happy is not only our right, he teaches, but is clearly the principle force that drives our lives. Our ability to attain a lasting happiness, however, is not so clear. The path of inner transformation begins with developing an understanding of our true nature. Once this door opens, one naturally develops a feeling of compassion and acceptance for oneself and others. In these difficult times, people are looking for answers to finding inner peace and happiness and arguably the greatest teacher shares important insights to getting there. DETAILS OF PROGRAMS ON DVD:
Only The Way

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Peace Is Every Step: The Life and Work of Thich Nhat Hanh 72
2005 Overview: Leading Vietnamese Zen teacher and author of many books (including the bestsellers Being Peace, Living Buddha/Living Christ, The Miracle of Mindfulness and Peace Is Every Step), Thich Nhat Hanh has had a profound impact on contemporary thinking and, importantly, social action. His efforts to achieve an early peaceful end to the American war in Vietnam earned him a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and a forty-year exile from his homeland. Peace Is Every Step is an intimate and direct portrait of of a monk who has lived through war and fought back with meditation, love and grace under fire, testimony to the faith that simple practices and insights drawn from (but not by any means limited to) the Buddhist Documentary Runtime: 142 min
Language: Cantonese Subtitles: English
A rare Buddhism-themed Hong Kong film, inspirational effort Only the Way from director Tang Tak Wing follows a wayward man whose life is transformed by Buddhist teachings. Starring Cheung Kwok Keung (The Pye-Dog) and 1980s and 90s action starlet Moon Lee, Only the Way reflects on life with sensitive insight and a gentle smile. Cheung Kwok Keung portrays a washed-out songwriter whose bad karma begins to catch up with him. His life goes into free fall as his girlfriend leaves him, his career goes downhill, and his mother (Siu Yam Yam, The Moss) passes away. All these setbacks make him live in even greater spite of the world until one day he encounters a Temple Street vendor (Tong Zhen) who introduces him to Buddhism.
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Peaceful Warrior
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Red Beard
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Runtime: 185 min
An inspirational and triumphant film about the power of the human spirit, 'Peaceful Warrior' is the incredible true story based on Dan Millman's best-selling novel. A gifted young athlete, bound for Olympic gold, Dan has it all: trophies, talent, and all the women he wants. But after a life-changing event, Dan comes to rely on Socrates (Nick Nolte), a mysterious stranger, and Joy (Amy Smart), an elusive young woman, to teach him the secret to overcome incredible odds and tap into new worlds of strength and understanding. Hailed by celebrities and critics alike, 'Peaceful Warrior' is "an inspiring film that could change lives." - Sting
A testament to the goodness of humankind, Akira Kurosawa's Red Beard chronicles the tumultuous relationship between an arrogant young doctor and a compassionate clinic director. Toshiro Mifune, in his last role for Kurosawa, gives a powerhouse performance as the dignified director who teaches his embittered intern to appreciate the lives of his destitute patients. Perfectly capturing the look and feel of 19th-century Japan, Kurosawa weaves a fascinating tapestry of time, place, and emotion.
Pruning The Grapevine

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The Saltmen of Tibet

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The small community is that of a Catholic seminary, where Seo-hyeon (Seo Jang-won) is studying to become a priest. The young man has been there for three years and has proved himself to be a top student, but while theory is all very well, he is finding it much harder to deal with the practical necessity of leaving his old life behind him. It surely shouldn't be so difficult to identify the correct way to behave in such situations, but Seo-hyeon only sees the actions he believes to be right causing pain in those around him. Filming in Korea, Min Byung-hoon's third feature confirms that he is not so much interested in making a socio-political commentary on the places he films, as much as using their situations to delve into basic human nature, using remote locations whose "purity" can
Shot under extreme conditions in one of the world's most remote locations, 'The Saltmen of Tibet' is a work of sublime beauty and epic scale. Documenting the ancient traditions and day-to-day rituals of a Tibetan nomadic community, filmmaker Ulrike Koch transports us into a realm untainted by the tides of foreign invasion or encroaching modernity. Observing age-old taboos and steadfast homage to the deities of nature, four men meticulously plan their grueling three-month yak caravan to fetch "the tears of Tara," the precious salt from the holy lakes of northern Tibet. 'The Saltmen of Tibet' is a breathtaking collage of image and sound-a majestic tribute to the purity of a landscape, people and tradition facing extinction.
Raining in the Mountain

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Samsara
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In China, religious positions have always been controlled very closely. In this lavishly photographed story, set in a Buddhist monastery during the Ming Dynasty (14th-17th centuries), the monastery is in turmoil, wondering who the government is going to appoint as its next abbot. A number of outside dignitaries have been invited for the announcement and enthronement of the next abbot, and the tensions in the monastery are only heightened when one of these guests steals a venerated sutra from the Mahayana canon of Buddhist scriptures.
What is more important: satisfying a thousand desires or conquering just one? In the majestic setting of the Himalayas, the brilliant young monk Tashi returns to the world after three years of solitary meditation in a remote hermitage. At a harvest festival he meets the beautiful Pema, and chooses to quit monastic life for the challenge and wonders of the sider world. But marriage to Pema brings sorrow as well as joy, and a spiritual quest mid the tribulations of everyday life is very different from what Tashi has been accustomed to. Soon Tashi has to decide again between his love and his faith.
The Razor's Edge

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The Scent of Green Papaya

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'The Razor's Edge' Bill Murray ('Groundhog Day') makes an unforgettable dramatic debut as Larry Darrell, the free-spirited seeker, in this gripping adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's classic novel. When Larry returns from World War I disillusioned with Jazz Age values, he undertakes a quest which leads him to reject his rich fiancee (Catherine Hicks, TV's '7th Heaven') and his superficial lifestyle to go search for truth in the Himalayas. But Larry learns that the path to enlightenment is as difficult as treading "the sharp edge of a razor" and returns to civilization, where he tastes life's dark side when he tries to save a hometown girl turned prostitute (Theresa Russell, 'Wild Things').
A love story of exquisite beauty and originality, THE SCENT OF GREEN PAPAYA is the Cannes favorite that won the coveted Camera d'Or and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film of 1993. Set in Vietnam in the 1950s and '60s, it is the story of a shy peasant girl who goes to Saigon at the age of ten as a household servant. Beneath the calm exteriors of the lovely home where she works is an undercurrent of lost love and marital discord. Attuned to the people around her and enchanted by nature, Mui grows into a beautiful young woman who inspires her upper-class lover to break with convention. A visual feast as well as an emotional triumph, THE
Language: Vietnamese Subtitles: English
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Seven Years in Tibet

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Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring

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Brad Pitt stars in the soaring adventure and incredible true story of an Austrian prisoner of war who is transformed by his friendship with the young Dalai Lama.
A tiny Buddhist monastery floats on a raft amidst a breathtaking landscape, tended to by a solitary Monk. Into this serene setting comes a young child, who will become the Old Monk's protg... and so begins a lifelong journey of hope, despair, passion and redemption in a film hailed as "a triumph of sheer cinematic craft," (Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald). From the brash actions of youth, through the dawn of adolescence and the fullness of adulthood, one man's life lessons are learned as seasons pass, his emotional inner life changing as the landscape around him. Award-winning Korean writer/director/editor Kim Ki-duk has crafted a lushly exotic, yet universal story about the human spirit and its evolution, from Innocence to Love, Evil to Enlightenment, and ultimately to Rebirth that
Shortcut to Nirvana
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Stranger Than Fiction

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This enthralling documentary treks to the heart of the largest gathering of humanity on Earth: the Kumbh Mela. The huge festival has been held in India every 12 years for over two millennia, but is little known in the Westuntil now. The film spectacularly captures the sheer spiritual bliss, eternal wisdom and candid joy that envelop both the festivals pilgrims and world-renowned gurus in attendance. SHORTCUT TO NIRVANA also features a special appearance by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Language: English Subtitles: English
Will Ferrell stars as Harold Crick, a lonely IRS agent whose mundane existence is transformed when he hears a mysterious voice narrating his life. With the help of Professor Jules Hilbert (Dustin Hoffman), Harold discovers he's the main character in a novel-in-progress and that the voice belongs to Karen Eiffel (Emma Thompson), an eccentric author famous for killing her main characters in creative ways. Harold must quickly track down Eiffel and stop her before she conjures up a way to finish him off.
Siddhartha
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The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

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When filmmaker Conrad Rooks decided to film 'Siddhartha', the Nobel Prize-winning novel by Hermann Hesse, he traveled to India with legendary cinematographer Sven Nykvist. There, bewitched by the shimmering beauty and magic of this ancient land, they transformed Hesse's tale into widescreen poetry. 'Siddhartha' is the story of a young Brahmin who leaves his wealthy parents to become a "sadhu", a wandering ascetic. Siddhartha meets and is awed by the Buddha, but chooses to follow his own path. His spiritual search leads him to sexual passion and material wealth. He finds these pleasures empty and abandons them. Eventually, he discovers enlightenment as a poor ferryman, learning tranquility from the river itself.
Film directed by Kon Ichikawa and adapted from the Yukio Mishima novel "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion". It stands as one of his better known films. Also known as "Conflagration", the film has come to be best known by its Japanese title "Enjo". Told in an intricate flashback structure, Enjo dramatizes the psychological collapse of Goichi (Raizo Ichikawa), a young Buddhist acolyte from a dysfunctional family who arrives at a Kyoto temple - the Golden Pavillion - for further study. Goichi is haunted by two events - the discovery of his psychologically abusive mother's infidelity, and the effect of the revelation upon his father, who suddenly falls ill and dies shortly thereafter. Shy and idealistic - and hindered by a stuttering problem Goichi arrives at the temple haunted by his dying father's sentiment that "the Golden Pavillion of the
Sleeping Man
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Runtime: 103 min
Temptation of a Monk
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Language: Japanese Subtitles: French
Ein Mann ist um die Welt gereist und in sein heimatliches Dorf zurckgekehrt. Am Berg hinter dem Haus strzt er ab, bleibt bewusstlos liegen und wird vom Dorftrottel gefunden. Der Schlaf dieses Bewusstlosen ist es, der uns in Kohei Oguris Film die Sinne ffnet, denn von ihm ausgehend lsst uns der Filmemacher in Bildern und Klngen von rarer Reinheit ber das Leben nachdenken. In meditativer Weise dringt er in Sphren des bersinnlichen vor, die hier mit einem Mal sinnlich fassbar werden. Aus kleinen Stcken entsteht vor unseren Augen ein Mosaik: Das Kommen und Gehen, das Sein und Scheinen, das Trumen, das Leiden, das Irren, das Erkennen, die Wrme, das Warten finden darin ihren Ausdruck. Seine schiere Existenz ist eine Provokation, denn fr die anderen geht das Leben einerseits weiter, andererseits stellt es der schlafende
Set in 7th century China, Temptation of a Monk stars Joan Chen as both a beautiful princess and destructive temptress who wreaks havoc in a young general's life. It tells the epic story of a disgraced man's journey in to self-discovery. When General Shi is betrayed by rival General Hno, he is forced to take refuge in a Buddhist temple in order to confront his mistakes. Hno relentlessly pursues Shi by destroying all those close to him including his mother and lover leading to the ultimate showdown between the two generals.
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Three Monks
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The Tibetan Book of the Dead

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Three Monks (Chinese: San ge he shang) is a Chinese animated feature film produced by the Shanghai Animation Film Studio. After the cultural revolution and the fall of the political Gang of Four in 1976, the film was one of the first animation created as part of the rebirth period. It is also referred to as "The Three Buddhist Priests". The film is based on the ancient Chinese proverb "One monk will shoulder two buckets of water, two monks will share the load, but add a third and no one will want to fetch water." The film does not contain any dialogues, allowing it to be watched by any culture, and a different music instrument was used to signify each monk.
Death is real, it comes without warning and cannot be escaped. An ancient source of strength and guidance, The Tibetan Book of the Dead remains an essential teaching in the Buddhist cultures of the Himalayas. Narrated by Leonard Cohen, this enlightening two-part series explores the sacred text and boldly visualizes the afterlife according to its profound wisdom. PART 1 A Way of Life reveals the history of The Tibetan Book of the Dead and examines its traditional use in northern India, as well as its acceptance in Western hospices. Shot over a four-month period, the film contains footage of the rites and liturgies for a deceased Ladakhi elder and includes an interview with the Dalai Lama, who shares his views on the books meaning and
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Thus I Have Heard: Teachings of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche 90

2003 Overview: Thus I Have Heard is a selection of highlights from five public teachings given by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche ranging from meditation instruction at the first summer session of Naropa University in 1974 to a vision for enlightened society to an audience in Boston in 1982. Documentary Runtime: 65 min
Travellers and Magicians

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Language: Other Subtitles: English
Mystical journeys of spiritual discovery are set against the spectacular, evocative landscape of the remote kingdom of Bhutan in Travellers & Magicians. Young government official Dondup (Tshewang Dendup) dreams of escaping to America while stuck in a ravishingly beautiful but isolated village. But when he misses his bus to the city (and an awaiting visa), Dondup is forced to hitchhike with an elderly apple seller, a sage young monk, and old man, and his beautiful daughter (Sonam Lhamo). Along the way, the mischievous monk tells Dondup a story of another young man who sought a land far away: a tale of lust, jealousy, and murder that holds up a mirror to the restless Dondup and his blossoming attraction to the innocent young woman.
Tibet: A Buddhist Trilogy

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Un Buda
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Part 1: The Dalai Lama, The Monasteries, and the People Filmed in the Dalai Lamas residence in Dharamsala, North India, and in the re-built Sera Monastery, the second largest monastery of the old Tibet, this opening part of the Trilogy observes the Dalai Lama in his dual role as political leader and spiritual teacher. In an elegant cinematic style, at one with its subject, the film interweaves this personal portrait with an intimately observed exploration of the ways in which the inner knowledge of Tibetan Buddhist culture is developed in the monasteries, through vigorous debate and solitary meditation, and communicated in to the lay community. Part 2: Radiating the Fruit of Truth
Language: Spanish Subtitles: English
Un Buda is the story of two brothers who have responded to a childhood tragedy in two completely different ways: one growing into a solitary loner who seeks truth through aesthetic practices, the other a college professor who only finds truth in fact. Now as adults, they have to face each other again in order to find peace. An extreme Un Buda is the story of two brothers who have responded to a childhood tragedy in two completely different ways: one growing into a solitary loner who seeks truth through aesthetic practices, the other a college professor who only finds truth in fact. Now as adults, they have to face each other again in order to find peace. An extremely personal journey into the lifetime practice of Zen Buddhism, this film educates on the Zen philosophy while bringing a human face to faith, love and healing. The film
Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion

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Runtime: 104 min
Unmistaken Child
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Ten years in the making, this award-winning documentary was filmed during a remarkable nine journeys throughout Tibet, India and Nepal. CRY OF THE SNOW LION brings audiences to the long-forbidden "rooftop of the world" with an unprecedented richness of imagery from rarely-seen rituals in remote monasteries, to horse races with Khamba warriors; from brothels and slums in the holy city of Lhasa, to the magnificent Himalayan peaks still traveled by nomadic yak caravans. The dark secrets of Tibets recent past are powerfully chronicled through riveting personal stories and interviews, and a collection of undercover and archival images never before assembled in one film. A definitive exploration of a legendary subject, TIBET: CRY OF THE SNOW LION is an epic story of courage and compassion.
A visual stunning, spellbinding spiritual journey to a world rarely seen by outsiders. The Buddhist concept of reincarnation, while both mysterious and enchanting, is hard for most Westerners to grasp. UNMISTAKEN CHILD follows the 4-year-search for the reincarnation of Lama Konchog, a world-renowned Tibetan master who passed away in 2001 at age 84. The Dalai Lama charges the deceased monk s devoted disciple, Tenzin Zopa (who had been in his service since the age of seven), to search for his master s reincarnation -- a child who may be anywhere in the world. Tenzin sets off on foot, mule and even helicopter, through breathtaking landscapes and remote traditional Tibetan villages. He listens to stories about children with special characteristics, performs rituals
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Waking Life
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Runtime: 99 min
Why has Bodhi-Dharma left for the East?

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One of the most imaginative animated features ever made. This funny, ingenious film explores the fascinating question: "Are we sleep-walking through our waking state or waking-walking through our dreams?" Join Wiley Wiggins as he searches for answers to life's most important questions in a world that may or may not be reality.
Bae Yong-kyun's Zen masterpiece. Acclaimed by critics and audiences throughout the world, "Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East?" is simply one of the most ravishing films ever made. In a remote monastery high up in the mountains, an old master, a young monk and an orphaned boy devote themselves to their Buddhist teachings. As the master faces death, he becomes more desperate to lead his disciples away from the outside world and point them toward their quest for enlightenment. This magnificent film, astonishingly rich in its formal beauty and affirmation of life, is not only a cinematic gem but a transcendent evocation of the mystery and humanity of Zen Buddhism. Selected by three international film critics as "One of the Ten Best Films of All Time" in the 1993 Sight & Sound Critics Poll.
Walking Pilgrims (Arukihenro)

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The Wizard of Oz
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For a great number of people, the main motive for undertaking a pilgrimage consists in the journey itself wandering along a path leading away from the familiar place and at the same time leading towards oneself. The road movie and documentary Walking Pilgrims (Arukihenro) focuses on today's Japanese wandering pilgrims, as they undertake the 88 Temples' Pilgrimage that circles the Japanese island of Shikoku.
Over 1000 years old, the Shikoku Henro connects 88 predetermined sacred places along a 1400 km route that circles Japan's fourth largest island, Shikoku. The pilgrimage follows the path of the holy monk Kobo Daishi (774-835), founder of Japanese Shingon Buddhism, who is said to have attained enlightenment on his ascetic wanderings through the prefectures of
Whisked away by a swirling tornado, 12-year-old Dorothy, her dog Toto, and even her Kansas farmhouse, sail over the rainbow and into the dazzling land of Oz. Filled with playful Munchkins, enchanted forests and endless surprises, this dream-come-true world is one great adventure after another. But the most wondrous adventure of all begins when Dorothy and her newfound friends go in search of the kingdom's mysterious Wizard and the secret that will lead her home.
What Remains of Us
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Words of My Perfect Teacher

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Runtime: 103 min
What Remains of Us (original title: Ce qu'il reste de nous) is a Canadian documentary film exploring the survival of the nonviolent resistance movement in Tibet. The documentary was shot over eight years without the knowledge of the Chinese authorities. A young Tibetan from Qubec, Canada, enters her homeland for the first time carrying a clandestine video message from the Dalai Lama to Tibetans inside Tibet.
From the World Cup in Germany to the remote Buddhist kingdom of Bhutan, three students are on a quest they hope will lead to wisdom. The catch is ... the teacher. Soccer obsessed, charismatic filmmaker, and citizen of the world, Khyentse Norbu may be one of the world s most eminent Tibetan Buddhist teachers, but it's a job description he slyly seems to reject at every turn. Filmed in the UK, Bhutan, Canada, the US, and Germany.
Wheel of Time
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Runtime: 80 min
Zen
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Runtime: 127 min
'Wheel of Time' is acclaimed filmmaker Werner Herzog's gorgeously photographed look at the largest Buddhist ritual in Bodh Gaya, India. It is said that Buddha found enlightenment under a tree in Bodh Gaya and today, Buddhist monks are ordained in this holy place. Herzog magically captures the lengthy pilgrimage (which for some, is over 3,000 miles), the monk's creation of the beautiful and intricate sand mandala (the wheel of time) along with many secret rituals that have never been seen before on film. He delivers a personal and introspective look at what Buddhism really means to its most ardent followers, as well as giving outsiders an intimate look into a fascinating way of life.
Directed by Takahashi Banmei, Zen is an elegant and fascinating look into the life and times of 13th-century monk Dogen, founder of the Soto sect in Zen Buddhism. Offering a fairly faithful depiction of what is known of the monk's life, the film follows Dogen, handsomely portrayed by kabuki actor Nakamura Kantaro, from an orphan child inspired by his mother's dying words to a young monk wandering in China where he experiences his awakening. After reaching enlightenment, he returns to Kyoto to spread his teachings of silent meditation, attracting both dedicated followers and fierce detractors who cast him as a heretic. In his travels and teachings, Dogen encounters many different people. Some guide him, some follow him, and some test him, but all become crucial figures in his
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Zen Buddhism: In Search of Self

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Runtime: 65 min
Angry Monk: Reflections on Tibet

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Runtime: 97 min
Following a tradition dating back over 1000 years, two dozen Buddhist nuns gather for a ninety day period of meditation, fasting and contemplation deep in the mountains of South Korea. With the singular goal of attaining enlightenment, the women undertake a rigorous schedule of meditation, at one point sitting for seven days without sleep. In this first ever documentary on the practice of Dong Ahn Geo (Winter Zen Retreat), you'll be invited into the Baek Hung Buddhist Temple to witness not only the nuns' strict meditation practice, but their daily lives in which we see not only a deep spiritual discipline but an almost childlike joy and simplicity. Since the Great Monk Hyecheol built Baek Hung Temple in the 10th century during the Silla Dynasty (AD 57-935), the temple has been known for the most rigorous Cham Sun (Zen) practice. Forbidden until now,
Gendun Choephel is a legendary figure in Tibet. Believed to be the reincarnation of a famous Buddhist lama, this promising young monk turned his back on monastic life and became a fierce critic of his country's religious conservatism, cultural isolationism and reactionary government. After leaving the monastery in 1934, and fueled by his intellectual curiosity and free-spirited nature, Choephel traveled throughout Tibet and India in order to understand the true history of his country. Both a personal and political portrait of this pioneering and visionary intellectual, Angry Monk features rare archival footage, Choephel's paintings, and contemporary scenes of sites he visited, along with interviews with Tibetan historians, scholars, writers, and
A Zen Life: D.T. Suzuki

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Runtime: 77 min
Cherry Blossoms
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Runtime: 124 min
Review Goldberg... approaches his subject with sensitivity and insight, which he backs with solid research, excellent and rare archival footage and an array of impressive interviews. --Robert Avila, San Francisco Film Society/Indie Wire Review Some strictly orthodox Zen masters may have grumbled at his temerity in attempting to explain the unexplainable mystery of their doctrine. But even they had to admit that he became Zen's most successful and widely respected missionary outside Japan, and that if anyone could communicate Zen to the West, Dr. Suzuki was the man... He radiates... a special serenity that makes him a magnificent living example of the doctrine he preaches. --Winthrop Sargeant, The New Yorker, 1957
Language: German Subtitles: English
One of Germanys foremost filmmakers, award-winning Doris Drrie (Men, Naked, Am I Beautiful?), directs this tender, emotionally intense and profoundly moving story of marital love. Only Trudi knows that her husband Rudi is suffering from a terminal illness. She decides not to tell him and convinces him to visit their family in Berlin. Then, suddenly, Trudi dies. Rudi is devastated but vows to make up for her lost life. And so he embarks on his last journey - to Tokyo - in the midst of the cherry blossom festival, a celebration of beauty, impermanence and new beginnings.
The Zen Mind

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Runtime: 60 min
Ikiru
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Runtime: 143 min
The Zen Mind is a journey across Japan to explore the practice of Zen. We reveal the daily routine of a zen monk and take you inside the walls of the zen monastery and into a world never imagined by outsiders. Step inside the zendo or meditation hall, where the monks sit in zazen - searching for the middle path to enlightenment - it is a long hard journey. Every aspect of zen is uncovered - from a zen center in the middle of the bustling streets of Tokyo, to the mountains above Kyoto.
Considered by some to be Akira Kurosawas greatest achievement, Ikiru presents the director at his most compassionateaffirming life through an exploration of a mans death. Takashi Shimura portrays Kanji Watanabe, an aging bureaucrat with stomach cancer forced to strip the veneer off his existence and find meaning in his final days. Told in two parts, Ikiru offers Watanabes quest in the present, and then through a series of flashbacks. The result is a multifaceted look at a life through a prism of perspectives, resulting in a full portrait of a man who lacked understanding from others in life.
Zen Noir
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Runtime: 71 min
Into Great Silence

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Runtime: 162 min
A nameless 'noir' detective, still mourning the loss of his wife, investigates a mysterious death in a Buddhist temple, but his logical, left-brained crime-solving skills are useless in the intuitive, non-linear world of Zen.
Language: French Subtitles: English
Nestled deep in the postcard-perfect French Alps, the Grande Chartreuse is considered one of the worlds most ascetic monasteries. In 1984, German filmmaker Philip Grning wrote to the Carthusian order for permission to make a documentary about them. They said they would get back to him. Sixteen years later, they were ready. Grning, sans crew or artificial lighting, lived in the monks quarters for six months - filming their daily prayers, tasks, rituals and rare outdoor excursions. This transcendent, closely observed film seeks to embody a monastery, rather than simply depict one - it has no score, no voiceover and no archival footage. What remains is stunningly elemental: time, space and light. One of the most mesmerizing and poetic chronicles of spirituality ever created, 'Into Great Silence' dissolves the border between screen and
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Jacob's Ladder
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Runtime: 113 min
Pay It Forward
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Runtime: 123 min
Tim Robbins is Jacob Singer, a man who lives in a nightmare. Wounded in Vietnam, he's now back at home in New York City. Torn between the memories of his son and terrifying wartime demons, Jacob is slowly losing his grip on reality. His beautiful girlfriend (Elizabeth Pena) only adds confusion to his life, drawing him into a web of sexual intrigue; but ultimately, it's his friend Louis (Danny Aiello, who turns out to he the only one Jacob can truly count on. Based in part on The Tibetan Book of the Dead.
Just imagine. You do a favor that really helps someone and tell him or her not to pay it back, but to pay it forward to three more - and on and on into a global outpouring of kindness and decency. Impossible? Junior high student Trevor McKinney won't accept that. Haley Joel Osment plays Trevor, who starts a chain reaction of goodness for his social studies project in this bittersweet and uplifting talk directed by Mimi Leder, based on the novel by Catherine Ryan Hyde and also starring Academy Award winners Kevin Spacey and Helen Hunt. How much impact can one heartfelt idea have? Do yourself a favor and find out: see Pay it Forward.
Jesus in India
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Runtime: 97 min
The Quantum Activist

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Runtime: 77 min
Edward T. Martin begins a seekers quest across 4000 miles of India in search of answers about where Jesus was during the Hidden Years from ages 12 to 30. The New Testament is silent on those years, however in India there is an ancient tradition that young Jesus joined a caravan and took the Silk Road to the East, where He lived with both Hindus and Buddhists before returning to begin His ministry.
Dr. Amit Goswami, Ph.D, a pioneer of this revolutionary new perspective within science shares with us his vision of the unlimited potential of consciousness as the ground of all being, and how this revelation can actually help us to live better. The Quantum Activist tells the story of a man who challenges us to rethink our very notions of existence and reality, with a force and scope not felt since Einstein. This film bridges the gap between God and Science. The work of Goswami, with stunning precision and without straying from the rigors of quantum mechanics, reveals the overarching unity inherent in the worlds major religions and mystical traditions.
To what extent are these traditions based on evidence, and why does the Pope of Hinduism now insist that Jesus was in India? Why does Professor Elaine Pagels of Princeton University, a world-renowned Biblical scholar, say we
Jigoku
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Runtime: 99 min
Rivers and Tides

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Runtime: 90 min
Shocking, outrageous, and poetic, 'Jigoku' ('Hell', a.k.a. 'The Sinners of Hell') is the most innovative creation from Nobuo Nakagawa, the father of the Japanese horror film. After a young theology student flees a hit-and-run accident, he is plagued by both his own guilt-ridden conscience and a mysterious, diabolical doppelganger. But all possible escape routes lead straight to hell--literally. In the gloriously gory final third of the film, Nakagawa offers up his vision of the underworld in a tour de force of torture and degradation. A striking departure from traditional Japanese ghost stories, 'Jigoku', with its truly eye-popping, and -gouging, imagery, created aftershocks that are still reverberating in contemporary world horror cinema. Jigoku (1960), a theatrical, surreal depiction of Hell by
In the timeless tradition of Winged Migration and Koyaanisqatsi, the theatrical phenomenon RIVERS AND TIDES depicts the magical relationship between art and nature while painting a visually intoxicating portrait of famed artist Andy Goldsworthy. Gorgeously shot and masterfully edited, the film follows the bohemian free spirit Goldsworthy all over the world as he demonstrates and opens up about his unique creative process. From his long-winding rock walls and icicle sculptures to his interlocking leaf chains and multicolored pools of flowers, Goldsworthys painstakingly intricate masterpieces are made entirely of materials found in Mother Naturewho threatens and often succeeds in destroying his art, sometimes before its even finished.
Mother Ganga
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Runtime: 55 min
Shin Don
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Runtime: 150 min
The film portrays a pilgrimage, starting at the Bay of Bengal where the Ganges enters the sea (Ganga Sagar), to Gangotri and Gomukh in the Himalayan Mountains where the Ganges appears. Along the journey, one can see images from significant places of pilgrimage such as Mayapur, Jaipur, Varanasi, Bodgaya, Haridwar, Rishikesh, Gangotri, and others. The film depicts the love and devotion the people of India have been exhibiting for thousands of years in the worship of Gangamayi. The commentary consists of narratives and related stories found in the Vedas describing the Ganges spiritual origin, purifying power, descent to the material world, personal feature, etc. This film also contains footage capturing the atmosphere of ancient worship ceremonies, magnificent temples, impressive mystic yoga practise, etc.
Shin Don was a Buddhist priest who enjoyed King Gongmins confidence. Though he was a Buddhist priest, he relied on political power more than compassion or loving kindness in order to survive the troubled times. He was an innovative philosopher who both despised and worshipped all the established ideas. While some people considered him a man blinded by greed for power, others believed that he was a true social reformer who struggled to revive Goryeo during a period of turmoil. Religion was his ideal; however, it was also his tool of seizing political power and winning popular support. Disc contains episodes 1-3. This is a historical drama, prior background knowledge may be necessary. Further episodes available upon request.
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Shower
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Runtime: 94 min
The Visitor
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Runtime: 104 min
When successful businessman Da Ming is summoned by his younger brother to come home to his father's old-style bathhouse in Beijing, he can't wait to return to his fast-paced modern life. But time amongst the crazy cast of characters that frequent the bathhouse gives him a new appreciation for traditional old ways. When a tragic event causes sudden change, Da Ming must choose between the prosperous life he's made for himself and his responsibility to his family and jis heritage.
THE VISITOR stars Richard Jenkins in a "perfect performance" as Walter, a disaffected college professor who has been drifting aimlessly through his life. When, in a chance encounter on a trip into New York, Walter discovers a couple has taken up residence in his apartment in the city, he develops an unexpected and profound connection to them that will change his life forever.
As challenges arise for his tenants Tarek and Zainab, Walter finds himself compelled to help his new friends, and rediscovers a passion he thought he had lost long ago.
The Story of India

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Runtime: 90 min
Wild Strawberries
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Runtime: 92 min
In this captivating six-part adventure, Wood chronicles the history of the subcontinent, the incredible richness and diversity of its peoples, cultures and landscapes, the intense drama of its past and the originality and continuing relevance of its ideas. Episode 1 - "Beginnings" Episode 2 - "The Power of Ideas"
DISC ONLY CONTAINS EPISODES 1-2
Language: Swedish Subtitles: English
The film that catapulted Ingmar Bergman to the forefront of the world cinema is the director's richest, most humane movie. Traveling to receive an honorary degree, professor Isak Borg (Masterfully played by the veteran Swedish director Victor Sjstrm) is forced to face his past, come to terms with his faults, and accept his approaching death. Through flashbacks and fantasies, dreams and nightmares, 'Wild Strawberries' captures a startling voyage of self-discovery and renewed belief in mankind.
Throne of Blood
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Runtime: 109 min
Windhorse
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Runtime: 97 min
One of the most celebrated screen adaptations of Shakespeare, Akira Kurosawa's 'Throne of Blood' reimagines 'Macbeth' in feudal Japan. Starring Kurosawa's longtime collaborator Toshiro Mifune and the legendary Isuzu Yamada as his ruthless wife, the film tells the tale of a valiant warrior's savage rise to power and his ignominious fall. With 'Throne of Blood', Kurosawa fuses one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies with the formal elements of Japanese Noh Theater to make a 'Macbeth' that is all his own - a classic tale of ambition and duplicity set against a ghostly landscape of fog and inescapable doom.
Based on true events, WINDHORSE focuses on the lives of two siblings and their cousin who as young children witnessed their Tibetan grandfather brutally murdered over his resistance of Chine aggression. Eighteen years later, the memory of losing their grandfather has affected each of the kids differently. On the verge of pop stardom, Dolkar has assimilated herself comfortably into Chinese culture while her disgusted brother Dorjee's hatred of the Chinese has turned him into an embittered vagrant. Their cousin Pema has since retreated to the solace of life as a Buddhist nun until, like her grandfather before her, she too risks her life by defying Chinese rule in Tibet.
Transparent Lama
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Runtime: 64 min
Alice in Wonderland
128
Runtime: 75 min
The film presents one of the great Tibetan Buddhism teachers of the Karma Kagyu order, Lama Lopen Tseche Rinpoche. The movie covers material from two countries: Nepal - where he was a abbot of a monastery in his final years, and Bhutan - his country of birth. His first western students Ole and Hannah Nydahl share the memories about their spiritual teacher Tseche Rinpoche.
The surprises begin when a daydreaming Alice encounters a White Rabbit who is frantically running late. She chases him and falls into the magical, madcap world of Wonderland with a kaleidoscope of off-the-wall characters - including Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the Cheshire Cat, and the manic Mad Hatter, who invites her to a memorable tea party! The crowning confrontation begins when Alice meets the notorious Queen Of Hearts and her enchanted deck of playing cards. Tricked into a curious game of croquet, Alice, and her patience, end up on trial. Is there no escape from this whimsical escapade?
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Babel
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Runtime: 143 min
Donnie Darko
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Runtime: 113 min
Pain is universal... but so is hope. From acclaimed Director Alejandro Gonzlez Irritu comes the third film in his trilogy, 'Babel', a critically celebrated and emotionally gripping film about the barriers that separate humankind. A tragic accident in Morocco sets off a chain of events that will link four groups of people who, divided by cultural differences and vast distances, will discover a shared destiny that ultimately connects them. Brad Pitt, Cate Blancettand Gael Garca Bernal lead an outstanding international ensemble cast in this breakthrough film.
Troubled adolescent, Donnie Darko, receives a disturbing vision that the world will end in 28 days. With the help of various characters, including a 6 foot rabbit called Frank, he slowly discovers the mysterious physical and metaphysical laws that govern his life and that will lead up to the destruction of the universe.
Ayurveda: The Art of Being

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Runtime: 102 min
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

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Runtime: 108 min
Under a timeless South Asian sky, fingers expertly probe flesh, bones and hands. Healer Brahmanand Swamigal is practicing Ayurveda, the "science of life", one of the oldest holistic medical systems in the world. Originating in India more than 5,000 years ago, and spreading to Tibet, China and Japan, this uncanny intersection of science, medicine and magic is only now receiving serious study in the West. Shot over three years on three continents, Pan Nalin's AYURVEDA: THE ART OF BEING is both a breathless globe trotting travelogue that's "fascinating to watch" (Variety) and a deeply spiritual testament to the power of Ayurvedic medicine. Founded on the belief that human disease is cured by restoring an imbalance of individual life energies,
This is the story of a guy, Joel, who discovers that his long-time girlfriend, Clementine, has undergone a psychiatrist's experimental procedure in which all of her memory of Joel is removed, after the couple has tried for years to get their relationship working fluidly. Frustrated by the idea of still being in love with a woman who doesn't remember their time together, Joel agrees to undergo the procedure as well, to erase his memories of Clementine.
The film, which takes place mostly within Joel's mind, follows his memories of Clementine backwards in time as each recent memory is replaced, and the procedure then goes on to the previous one, which is likewise seen, and then erased. Once the process starts, however, Joel realizes he doesn't really want to forget
The Clone Returns Home

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Runtime: 110 min
Silence
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Runtime: 129 min
An astronaut dies on a mission, but never fear he's got a clone, which has been imprinted with his memories. Unfortunately, the upload malfunctions and the clone fixates on a tragic memory from the dead astronaut's youth, setting off a chain of events that will result in tragedy and a profound exploration of what it means to be human, and have a soul.
Adapted from the renowned novel by Shusaku Endo, Masahiro Shinodas 1971 film Silence (Chinmoku, co-written with Endo) explores the violent cultural conflict amid the arrival of Jesuit missionaries in seventeenth-century Japan. Shinodas excellent direction coupled with a pensive score by the legendary Toru Takemitsu gives cinematic expression to inner spiritual paradox, and imbues with religious mystery a landscape that seems already sentient with wind, rain, and light. Two Portuguese priests disembark upon an anonymous Japanese shore. Under cover of nightfall, they seek to infiltrate those Christian sects driven underground by a ruthless magistracy, and re-establish the foothold of the Church on the isolated island-nation. Soon, however,
Dead Man
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Runtime: 121 min
Memento
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Runtime: 116 min
William Blake set out on an exciting journey to start his life over in a new town with a new job. He never could have prepared himself for what was to come. Through a mysterious chain of events, he becomes involved in a love triangle that ends in a double murder--with him as the suspect. Alone and scared, he tries to escape, but soon discovers that he is being hunted down by men who have been paid to find and kill him, and befriends a Native American loner, who teaches him to face the dangers that follow a "dead man."
Leonard suffers from a rare brain disorder - the inability to form any new memories. He can remember in detail everything that happened before his injury, but anyone he has ever met or anything he has ever done since that fateful night, simply vanishes. Who are his friends? Who are his enemies? What is the truth? In Leonard's world, he answers to these questions shift and change from second to second. And the more he tries to figure out what is ture and real, the deeper he sinks into a multi-layered abyss of uncertainty and surprises.
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Valley of Flowers
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Runtime: 116 min
Brain Story
141
Runtime: 294 min
A greatest Asian love story, an unforgettable tale about passion, death and reincarnation. A mesmerizing Himalayan epic that spans two centuries, from the Silk Route of the early 19th century to the bustling metropolis of modern-day Tokyo.
Why do we think and feel as we do? For years man has sought to understand the workings of the mind. Now, with advances in modern-day technology and developments in neuroscience, a whole new world of brain research is opening up. Understanding our minds is becoming a reality. Guided by top neuroscientist Susan Greenfield, Brain Story attempts to answer the question What is my mind and who am I? We talk to philosophers, clinicians, neurosurgeons and their patients to discover quite what a finely balanced and complex machine the brain is.
Owl and the Sparrow

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Runtime: 98 min
Buddha Wild
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Runtime: 80 min
On the bustling streets of Saigon, three very different people all seeking connection are about to collide. A beautiful flight attendant looking for love. A zookeeper hiding within his animal kingdom to nurse a broken heart. And the young flower-selling runaway who brings them together. But to avoid the authorities and a strict uncle tracking her down, she will need all of her cleverness and determination if she is going to grab any chance at lasting happiness.
Award winning documentary directed and presented by Anna Wilding. A beautiful and moving film that is a refreshing and entertaining synthesis of Eastern and Western culture. Buddha Wild explores our lives as we strive to live in one with nature, our environment, and explores what really goes on behind the monastery doors, through a group of remote monks adapting to the Western world. This engaging movie touches on hot-button issues like the roles of women, racism, politics, the environment, and celibacy. Special Features include interviews, and an appearance by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Aparajito
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Runtime: 110 min
Colors of Compassion
143
Runtime: 49 min
Following Apu and his family to the city, Ray explores the crowded streets and busy waterfront, introducing us to a gallery of unforgettable images and characters. But when tragedy strikes Apu's family, the boy becomes a man and must choose between the life his father chose -- a life of duty and disappointment -- or a life of his own
This film documents the first retreat for people of color to be given by Vietnamese Zen master, teacher, scholar and poet Thich Nhat Hanh. It takes place at Deer Park Monastery in spring, 2004. The film highlights interviews with participants and monastics as they reflect on the dharma and its meaning in their lives. Issues such as discrimination, alienation, and displacement, all of which give rise to anger and suffering, are discussed in candid and heartfelt interviews.
Blessings: Nuns of Tibet

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Runtime: 90 min
Devotion of Matthieu Ricard

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Runtime: 67 min
Blessings: The Tsoknyi Nangchen Nuns of Tibet tells the story of 3000 nuns living in the remote nomadic region of Nangchen in Eastern Tibet who practice an ancient yogic tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. Despite near extinction during the destruction of the Cultural Revolution, these remarkable spiritual practitioners have emerged to rebuild their monasteries by hand - stone by stone. Now, their tradition of wisdom and compassion is once again vital and growing. In 2005, Tsoknyi Rinpoche III led a small group of western students to meet the Nangchen nuns. Blessings is the story of this extraordinary journey. A unique meeting of East and West, the film is an inspiration to anyone seeking a spiritual path through the challenges of 21st century life.
Nearly forty years ago Matthieu Ricard left his native France and a promising career in cellular genetics to become a monk in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition in Nepal. He is now a translator, photographer and bestselling author and an active participant in scientific research on the effects of meditation on the brain. He is involved in a number of humanitarian projects in Tibet and Nepal, where he resides.
This intimate portrait journeys with Matthieu as he continues the work of his late teacher, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, in the Himalayas, and as he serves as translator for the Dalai Lama in Europe and participates in scientific research there. His vivid photography and accessible stories of a monk s life in the Himalayas feature throughout.
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Down The River

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Runtime: 52 min
The Fountain
149
Runtime: 96 min
Elegantly composed, dreamlike and ethereal, Down the River is a stunning little treat from Thailand. Infused with Buddhist theology, the film tells the story of two best friends Krit and Vin. Down the River (Tam Sai Nam) depicts Buddhist Philosophy through an old Thai poem style, as it softly conveys the main character's feeling by mixing these with beautiful cinematography. Krit wants their relationship to be more, but Vin wants a wife and children. Vin's brain can't embrace his homosexual side as Krit has. Krit goes to gay bars, Win hangs out with the straight people, but all these two men have on their minds is each other. Krit and Vin love to hike in the woods, and Krit keeps a book where he presses flowers as memories of their walks. With scenes juxtaposed in a non-linear fashion the story, as it is, is of a hike Vin and Krit take with two women. Krit wants this
Yesterday, today, tomorrow. Past, present, future. Through time and space, one man embarks on a bold 1000-year odyssey to defeat humankind's most indomitable foe: Death. Hugh Jackman plays that man, devoted to one woman and determined to protect her from forces that threaten her existence. His quest leads him to a Tree of Life...and to an adventure into eternity. Darren Aronofsky directs, continuing his string of imaginative, involving filmmaking with a tale alive with ideas and filled with astonishing vistas.
Fearless
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Runtime: 122 min
Ganglamedo
150
Runtime: 97 min
San Francisco architect Max Klein can see clearly now. He's been transformed ever since he stared death in the face - and discovered he was unafraid. Fearless, the vivid story of how a near-death experience impacts the lives of three people. Max, more wildly alive and taking more risks than ever since surviving a plane crash. Laura struggles to find in Max the man she married. And fellow crash survivor Carla: alive, yet devastated by a grievous loss. It seems that no one can heal her pain. But then she meets the one person who fearlessly knows how.
Ganglamedo is a 2006 musical movie from Tibet, directed by Dai Wei, written by Tashi Dawa. The movie is about one of the most popular Tibetan folk songs, Ganglamedo ("Snow lotus"), about two girls and two men. The story begins sixty years ago, in Tibet. A local girl, who sings the Ganglamedo, calls herself by same name. She is in love with a Tibetan man, Acuo, and they plan to marry. She disappears the night before the marriage is to take place.
Sixty years later, a Chinese singer, An Yu, comes to Tibet to find her lost voice. She meets young Tibetan man Anzha, who helps her get to Lake Namucuo. One day An Yu meets an old woman, Lamu, and discovers she is Ganglamedo.
Fire Under the Snow

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Runtime: 75 min
God and Buddha

151
Runtime: 90 min
Palden Gyatso, a Buddhist monk since childhood, was arrested by the Chinese Communist Army in 1959. He spent the next 33 years in prison for the "crimes" of peaceful demonstration and refusal to denounce his apolitical teacher as an Indian spy. He was tortured, starved and sentenced to hard labor. He watched his nation and culture destroyed, his teachers, friends and family displaced, jailed or killed under Chinese occupation.
In this fascinating and unusual conversation, writer and physician Deepak Chopra talks to religion professor Robert Thurman about the connections and differences between two of India's most important philosophical beliefs: Vedanta and Buddhism. Chopra explores the foundation of Vedanta, while Thurman -- the father of actress Uma Thurman -- provides the Buddhist point of view in this meeting held in 1999 at New York City's Tibet House.
Fire Under the Snow reaches back to Palden's birth in 1933 and follows him through the Orwellian nightmare that began with the Chinese invasion. We cut back and forth between the past and Palden's present as an activist, living in exile. Our P.O.V. becomes a "third eye" hovering over Paldens current life, haunted by his
Fires on the Plain

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Runtime: 105 min
God Man Dog

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Runtime: 119 min
An agonizing portrait of desperate Japanese soldiers stranded in a strange land during World War II, Kon Ichikawa's Fires on the Plain is a compelling descent into psychological and physical oblivion. Denied hospital treatment for tuberculosis and cast off into the unknown, Private Tamura treks across an unfamiliar Philippine landscape, encountering an increasingly debased cross section of Imperial Army soldiers, who eventually give in to the most terrifying craving of all. Grisly yet poetic, Fires on the Plain is one of the most powerful works from one of Japanese cinema's most versatile filmmakers. Fires on the Plane (1959) represents Preta: Hungry Ghost Realm. Perhaps the most fitting one for its respective plane- the marooned Japanese soldiers
Follows the daily lives of different people, observing the reserved way they go about their lives: a well off married couple from Taipei who have become more and more estranged and have slowly fallen silent since the birth of their child; a fruit dealer from the countryside and his wife who try together to battle his alcohol problem; a young woman who works out her aggressions through kickboxing; a young boy who roams around, and a lonely man who delivers massive statues of the Buddha. Some of these people take surprising turns while some of them cross each other's paths and fates.
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The Hungry Ghosts

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Runtime: 105 min
Not in God's Name

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Runtime: 57 min
According to Buddhists, hungry ghosts are the dead who cannot bid farewell to the living. They are a metaphor for spiritual hunger which we often try to satisfy by chasing the superficial and material. This directing debut by Michael Imperioli is filled with hungry ghosts. A group of New Yorkers, of different ages, races and backgrounds, hunger for emotional, sensual, and spiritual fulfillment. Their intersecting and colliding paths reflect the zeitgeist of our times, in which the desperation of the West smacks up against the religious teachings of the East.
Trapped in religious riots in Delhi, filmmaker Paula Fouce follows the Dalai Lama on a journey to understand religious intolerance. NOT IN GOD'S NAME shows how the world is ravaged by extreme divisions between religions. We examine the similar values of all faiths, and their potential for drawing us together to share a common ground. Featuring Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, Robert Thurman Ph. D., Joseph Prabhu Ph. D., Swami Chidanand Saraswatiji, Dr. Karan Singh, Ph. D., Georg Feuerstein, Ph. D., Michael Bernard Beckwith, and leaders of many faiths.
Journey into Buddhism

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Runtime: 255 min
Onibaba
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Runtime: 103 min
This trilogy of visually stunning documentaries are cinematic pilgrimages to the spiritual wonders and wisdom of Southeast Asia and Tibet. Journey into the living traditions, lost civilizations and luminous landscapes of this vibrant part of the world. Discover its radiant treasures of art, architecture and music. Explore the universal ideals of wisdom, compassion, and inner peace at the very heart of these ancient Buddhist cultures
Dharma River: Laos, Thailand & Burma Prajna Earth: Cambodia, Bali & Java Vajra Sky Over Tibet: Central Tibet
Deep within the wind-swept marshes of war-torn medieval Japan, an impoverished mother and her daughter-in-law eke out a lonely, desperate existence. Forced to murder lost samurai and sell their belongings for grain, they dump the corpses down a deep, dark hole and live off of their meager spoils. When a bedraggled neighbor returns from the skirmishes, lust, jealousy, and rage threaten to destroy the trios tenuous existence, before an ominous, ill-gotten demon mask seals the trios horrifying fate. Tiryag-yoni a.k.a. Animal Realm is reflected in Onibaba (1964, dir. Kaneto Shindo), a gritty tale of survival and animal lust in feudal era Japan.
Miracle of Goddess Kuan Yin

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Please Give
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Runtime: 90 min
Hong lives simply with his wife and his daughters Ngek and Gim. However the Japanese invade Thailand. The village is bombed and Hong's house goes up in flames even after she has prayed to the "Goddess of Mercy" to prevent that from happening. Ngek almost loses her faith in religion and the "Goddess of Mercy" as she has met her every night in her dreams and had long discussions seeking advice on her problems and fears. Many years later the two girls become attractive women. While Gim gets a boyfriend named Ling and has a normal life approved by her parents, Ngek is interested in Somsak and gets pregnant with twins. She is thrown out of the house by her father. Somsak and her try to start a new life with the help of the "Goddess" and with her help get a successful clothing business running. Her life changes from bad to good as she continues her
Kate and Alex, a married couple who run a successful business reselling estate-sale furniture, live in Manhattan with their teenage daughter, Abby. Wanting to expand their two-bedroom apartment, they buy the unit next door, planning to knock the walls out. However, before doing so, they have to wait for the occupant, Andra, a cranky elderly woman, to die. The wait becomes complicated when the family develops relationships with Andra and her two grown granddaughters. Nicole Holofcener infuses her story of love, death, and liberal guilt with a rare balance of humor and complexity that stems from her uncanny ability to understand peopletheir motivations, interactions, and contradictions. Her characters go to great pains to
Naked in Ashes
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Runtime: 103 min
Reincanation of Golden Lotus

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Runtime: 91 min
The bearers of a 5,000 year old legacy, the yogis give up everything to seek self realization. A young boy undergoes a secret initiation. On pilgrimage through the Himalayas he journeys to the holiest festival on earth.
A woman living in modern Hong Kong experiences flashbacks of an earlier life, in which she was a Chinese beauty named Golden Lotus (Joey Wang). Slowly, the events from her previous existence begin to re-enact themselves in the modern world. In both incarnations, Lotus is abused by the men in her life.
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Secret Sunday
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Runtime: 107 min
Shinran
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Runtime: 108 min
According to his mother's request, Nat, a young architect, unwillingly takes a journey to visit 9 different temples in order to clean up his bad karma. He is accompanied by Poon, his beautiful columnist girlfriend, and Sujitto, a young novice monk. All three characters have different purposes for taking this trip. But later they discover that they were put together for an unforeseeable reason. The karma of one person can effect the karma of others as well. Horrifying acts done in their previous lives reveal themselves as the journey goes by. The more they try to clean up Nat's bad karma by making merit, the closer they get to them. This journey is going to change their faith forever. How is Nat going to clean up his own mess? Would Nat be forgiven? How can an act of making merit overcome relentless vengeance?
This movie is a wonderful presentation of the most important aspects of Jodo Shinshu Buddhism. Passages from Tannisho or from the letters of Shinran (Mattosho) are put into dialogue form so that we can better savour them. Events from Shinrans life are also accurately presented so that newcomers can thus have a picture of who was Shinran Shonin (1173-1262), the Founder of Jodo Shinshu school.
Secret Sunshine
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Runtime: 142 min
Stay
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Runtime: 99 min
The fragile mind beset by a mercilessly harsh reality is represented by Shin-ae, a piano teacher who is already struggling to stand on her own feet emotionally after the death of her husband. To escape from her predicament, she moves to Milyang,her late husband's hometown. In Milyang ("Secret Sunshine"), Shin-ae has a brief chance to brighten up her depressing life when she meets Jong-chan, a local car repair shop owner. Jong-chan falls in love with her and helps her settle down smoothly in Milyang. But their romance does not get a chance to develop further when Shin-ae's son is kidnapped and she has no one to turn to. She tries everything she can to get her son back, but life is cruelly indifferent to her wishes again.
A suicidal college student and his doctor enter a twisted world of supernatural horror in Stay. Henry Lethem (Ryan Gosling) plans to kill himself in three days, unless psychologist Sam Foster (Ewan McGregor) can stop him. Henry's been hearing disturbing voices and experiencing horrifying visions, but where does imagination end and reality begin? Sam suddenly finds he's losing his own grip on reality, as he, too, is thrust into a hellish place between life and death. With the help of his girlfriend (Naomi Watts), Sam races to unlock the terrifying secret behind Henry's waking nightmare before it's too late!
Secrets of the Mind

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Runtime: 57 min
Sun Behind the Clouds

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Runtime: 79 min
In Secrets of the Mind we gain insights through various tragedies that have affected others, thanks to the logic and insights of Professor Ramachandran regarding what he calls the most complex organized matter in the universe. Dr. Vilayanur Ramachandran, an eloquent neuroscientist, is fascinated by patients who have unusual abilities or defects in the way they perceive the world. These include such puzzling phenomena as the phantom pain experienced in a missing, amputated limb, or the inability to recognize a familiar face following a stroke. From these strange cases, Ramachandran is building a novel vision of how the brain works. In "Secrets of the Mind," NOVA dramatizes the intimate stories of Ramachandran's encounters with his
In The Sun Behind the Clouds: Tibets Struggle for Freedom, Tibetan filmmaker, Tenzing Sonam, and his partner, Ritu Sarin, take a uniquely Tibetan perspective on the trials and tribulations of the Dalai Lama and his people as they continue their struggle for freedom in the face of determined suppression by one of the worlds biggest and most powerful nations. The filmmakers had intimate access to the Dalai Lama and followed him over the course of an eventful year, which included the 2008 protests in Tibet, the international response to it, the Beijing Olympics, and the breakdown in talks between his representatives and the Chinese government. Set against this backdrop, the film explores the interplay between the personal and the historic, spirituality and
Shaolin: Wheel of Life

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Runtime: 84 min
The Sword of Doom

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Runtime: 121 min
For more than 1,500 years, the Shaolin monks from China's Henan Province have applied the discipline of martial arts as a unique manifestation of their religion, performing feats of astonishing physical prowess and mental concentration within their Ch'an (Zen) Buddhist practice. Originally a means of daily exercise and a form of meditation, the fighting actions evolved into what is now known throughout the world as Kung Fu. Now, GREAT PERFORMANCES presents an exciting theatrical performance featuring the ordained Soldier Monks of the Shaolin Temple. With music, lighting, and a stage set evoking the ancient East, SHAOLIN: WHEEL OF LIFE tells the story of the monks' early struggle to establish and protect their temple in a performance that celebrates their history, religion, and tremendous physical and mental skills.
Tatsuya Nakadai and Toshiro Mifune star in the story of a wandering samurai who exists in a maelstrom of violence. A gifted swordsman - plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule - Ryunosuke (Nakadai) kills without remorse, without mercy. It is a way of life that ultimately leads to madness. The Criterion Collection is proud to present director Kihachi Okamoto's swordplay classic 'The Sword of Doom', the thrilling story of a man who chooses to devote his life to evil. Ashura/Demigod Realm is represented by Kihachi Okamoto's bloody samurai epic Sword of Doom (1966). Ashura is filled with jealousy, struggle and combat stemming from being envious of Deva Realm. As Tatsuya Nakadai's merciless swordman
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Ashes of Time Redux

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Runtime: 94 min
Aogeba Totoshi
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Runtime: 82 min
From director Wong Kar Wai comes the definitive version of Ashes of Time, an epic martial arts masterpiece of larger-than-life characters, breathtaking landscapes and exquisite fight scenes. The story centers on Ouyang Feng (Leslie Cheung), a heartbroken and cynical man who spends his days alone in the desert, connecting expert swordsmen with those seeking revenge and willing to pay for it. As Ouyang narrates his tale, interweaving the stories of his unusual clients, old friends and future foes, he begins to realize the mistakes of his own past, and how his fear of rejection may have led him to a life of exile.
Aogeba Totoshi deals with the issues of mortality and death through the eyes of a lonely student who has an morbid and albeit naive fascination with death. His teacher, Koichi (played by popular TV personality and media commentator Terry Ito) is also grappling with the issue of mortality as he deals with the impending death of his ailing father, who has decided to spend his final days in the family home. As the story progresses, Koichi finds unexpected solace from his grief by letting his troubled student visit and meet with his father in the hopes that he will understand the meaning of life and death.
Inception
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Runtime: 148 min
Bodhisattva, Superstar
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Runtime: 83 min
Acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan directs an international cast in this sci-fi actioner that travels around the globe and into the world of dreams. Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is the best there is at extraction: stealing valuable secrets inside the subconscious during the mind's vulnerable dream state. His skill has made him a coveted player in industrial espionage but has also made him a fugitive and cost him dearly. Now he may get a second chance if he can do the impossible: inception, planting an idea rather than stealing one. If they succeed, Cobb and his team could pull off the perfect crime. But no planning or expertise can prepare them for a dangerous enemy who seems to predict their every move. An enemy only Cobb could have seen coming.
Bodhisattva, Superstar, a new film by multimedia artist Michael Trigilio, confronts American popular culture's habit of addressing the subject of religion with alternating degrees of deluded piety or flippant scorn. Popular culture's treatment of Buddhism often is ensnared by the language of marketing, using Buddhist language or images to sell shampoos, candy bars, or self-help recipes of one kind or another.
Bodhisattva, Superstar is a documentary insofar as it features Buddhist authors, chaplains, monks, and scholars speaking about the nature of Buddhism in America. However, the film also relies on an apparently scripted character (played by actress Deanna Erdmann) who navigates her own emotional landscape of wonder, wandering, and contemplation. Trigilio refers to this form
21 Grams
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Runtime: 125 min
Brilliant Moon
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Runtime: 0 min
The emotionally and physically charged lives of three people, a college professor (Sean Penn), an ex-con (Benicio Del Toro) and a young mother with a reckless past (Naomi Watts), collide unexpectedly in this gripping suspense thriller. Fate brought them together. Now vengeance will take them to the heights of love, the depths of revenge and the promise of redemption.
Brilliant Moon: Glimpses of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche chronicles the life of the writer, poet, and meditation master, one of Tibet's most revered 20th-century Buddhist teachers. Known as the instructor of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Royal Family of Bhutan, his life and teachings were an inspiration to all who encountered him. Richard Gere and Lou Reed provide the narration for his dangerous journey out of China and the subsequent spread of his influence around the world. Brilliant Moon was filmed in Tibet, India, Bhutan, the United States and Nepal, and uses animation, rare archival footage and interviews with some of Tibet's great thinkers, to tell his moving life story, from birth to death to rebirth.
After Life
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Runtime: 118 min
Every War Has Two Losers

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Runtime: 32 min
From the award-winning director Koreeda Hirokazu (Maborosi) comes a remarkably touching film exploring the profound human need to discover meaning in everyday life. Many films have offered insight into the unexplainable realm of the after life. In Koreeda's thought-provoking vision, the newly deceased find themselves in a way station somewhere between Heaven and Earth.
With the help of dedicated caseworkers, each soul is given three days to choose one cherished memory from their life that they will relive for eternity. As the film reveals, recognizing happiness and finding a life's worth of meaning in a single event is no simple task. If Heaven is only a single memory from your life, as
Every War Has Two Losers is based on the journals of poet and conscientious objector, William Stafford. Stafford refused to fight in World War Two as he believed that war was not the answer. The film draws from Staffords journals to present another point of view on warmaking and its ability to create security. For all those who think war is envitable, Stafford said 'No'. That war is a choice among choices and there are other methods of reconciliation to be pursued before the bullets fly.
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Facing Death
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Runtime: 53 min
Priest
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Runtime: 98 min
How far would you go to sustain the life of someone you love, or your own? When the moment comes, and you're confronted with the prospect of "pulling the plug," do you know how you'll respond? In Facing Death, FRONTLINE gains extraordinary access to The Mount Sinai Medical Center, one of New York's biggest hospitals, to take a closer measure of today's complicated end-of-life decisions. In this intimate, groundbreaking film, doctors, patients and families speak with remarkable candor about the increasingly difficult choices people are making at the end of life: when to remove a breathing tube in the ICU; when to continue treatment for patients with aggressive blood cancers; when to perform a surgery; and when to call for hospice
The deeply held religious convictions of an idealistic young priest are challenged when he must face extraordinary events within his own congregation. Soon, he is forced to make the impossible choice between keeping faith and exposing the truth!
Megane
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Runtime: 106 min
Shugendo Now
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Runtime: 0 min
Among the most memorable things about Megane are an empty white beach, a luminous turquoise sea, and a verdant country road. Descending on this paradise, Taeko, a buttoned-up, bespectacled woman dragging a very large suitcase, checks into a tiny seaside inn. Expecting to be left alone, she's put off when the hotel's proprietor, Yuji, sits down to eat with her. She's even more disgruntled when Sakura, a placid, revered older woman, takes the liberty of entering Taeko's room to wake her up! But seeking haven at another hotel proves farcical, and Taeko sheepishly returns to her unconventional hosts. Relieved, she gradually tunes into their simple community and cultivates what Yuji calls "the talent to be here." There's a lot of talk about the 'visceral power of film.'But
How does one integrate lessons learned from nature in daily life? This feature documentary is an experiential journey into the mystical practices of Japanese mountain asceticism. In Shugend (The Way of Acquiring Power), practitioners perform ritual actions from shamanism, Shint, Daoism, and Tantric Buddhism. They seek experiential truth of the teachings during arduous climbs in sacred mountains. Through the peace and beauty of the natural world, practitioners purify the six roots of perception, revitalize their energy and reconnect with their truest nature all while grasping the fundamental interconnectedness with nature and all sentient beings. How does one return to the city after an enlightening
Monkey King at Spider Cave

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Runtime: 48 min
This Transient Life

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Runtime: 143 min
Monkey King at Spider Cave, inspired by an episode from Journey to the West, the beloved 16th Century Chinese epic, unfolds an adventure of a Buddhist High Priest and his animal disciples in their quest to bring the Buddhist scriptures to China. Their journey is relentlessly endangered by mythical demons and monsters this time by demonic spider women and an evil alchemist. Journey to the West is a frequent subject of operas and cartoons throughout Asia. The most famous and beloved of characters from the epic is Sun Wu Kong, The Monkey King, popular for being cunning and acrobatic, but with a playful and childish attitude that hides great wisdom.
The son and daughter of a wealthy Japanese merchant embrace the modern era and turn their backs on the traditions of their elders. The young woman eschews kimonos for miniskirts, and the long haired son ends up sleeping with her when the duo dons traditional religious masks. A Buddhist priest says nothing of her pregnancy when she is married off to the son of a faithful servant. The parents have pegged the servant's son to be the one who seduced their daughter. The son of a noted sculptor tries but fails to kill the incestuous brother and ends up killing himself. The brother goes to work for the sculptor and ends up sleeping with both the sculptor and his wife... FILM CONTAINS SOME NUDITY. VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED
The Nature of Existence

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Runtime: 93 min
Uncle Boonmee Who Recalls His Past Lives

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Runtime: 114 min
Why do we exist and what are we supposed to do about it? What started the Universe and was it a mistake? Does God exist and why does he seem so interested in our sex lives? I wrote the toughest 85 questions I could think of, about our purpose and the nature of existence, and then asked hundreds of people all over the globe, such as: Indian holy man Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (The Art of Living), evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins (The God Delusion), 24th generation Chinese Taoist Master Zhang Chengda, Stanford physicist Leonard Susskind (co-discoverer of string theory), wrestler Rob Adonis (founder of Ultimate Christian Wrestling), confrontational evangelist Brother Jed Smock, novelist Orson Scott Card (Enders Game), director Irvin Kershner (Star
The film centers on the last days in the life of its title character. Together with his loved ones including the ghost of his dead wife and his lost son who has returned in a non-human form Boonmee explores his past lives as he contemplates the reasons for his illness
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Yi Yi
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Runtime: 173 min
Dying at Grace
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Runtime: 148 min
With the runaway international acclaim of this film, Taiwanese director Edward Yang could no longer be called Asian cinema's best-kept secret. Yi Yi swiftly follows a middle-class family in Taipei over the course of one year, beginning with a wedding and ending with a funeral. Whether chronicling middle-aged father NJ's tenuous flirtations with an old flame or precocious young son Yang-Yang's attempts at capturing reality with his beloved camera, Yang imbues every gorgeous frame with a deft, humane clarity. Warm, sprawling, and dazzling, this intimate epic is one of the undisputed masterworks of the new century.
An extraordinary, transformative experience, Allan King's Dying at Grace is quite simply unprecedented: five terminally ill cancer patients allowed the director access to their final months and days inside the Toronto Grace Health Centre. The result is an unflinching, enormously empathetic contemplation of death, featuring some of the most memorable people ever captured on film.
12 Lotus
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Runtime: 120 min
Mandala
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Runtime: 138 min
"12 Lotus" is the name of a poignant song in 12 chapters, which also narrates the troubled life and times of a girl called Lotus (Lianhua). Since young, she wished to sing the song to Guanyin (Avalokiteshvara) Bodhisattva - out of gratitude perhaps, for she was the beacon of hope in her life, to whom she would pour all her woes.
In a motel near the Sea of Japan, two university students from Kyoto, Shinichi - an ex-activist and Hiroshi - a trotskyist and an individualist at the same time, and their girlfriends are exchanging partners. Shinichi and his girlfriend are attacked by two followers of the owner of the motel on the seashore, and then experience a queer pleasure. After having returned to Kyoto, they go back to the seashore so as to learn about the incident and meet the owner, who turns out to be the leader of a small community. They follow him to a village in the mountains, where he is creating a sort of Utopia based on the idea of primitive communism, which has auto-sufficient agriculture and eroticism as its principles. In Kyoto, the other couple worry about their disappeared friends, and also go back to the seashore. There, they are attacked by the members of the
Around the World in 80 Faiths

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Runtime: 60 min
Memories Of Tomorrow
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Runtime: 122 min
Around the World in 80 Faiths is a British television series which was first broadcast by the BBC on 2 January 2009. The series is presented by the Anglican vicar, Pete Owen-Jones, who is researching the various faiths from around the world. Episode Two: The Far East * Faith 12: Buddhism, The Naked Man festival Visits the Buddhist fertility festival at Okayama, Japan. * Faith 13: Hindu street shrine - Visits a busy, popular Hindu shrine in downtown Bangkok used by Buddhist worshippers. * Faith 14: Theravada Buddhism - Interviews a monk of Theravada Buddhism, describing its importance in Thailand. * Faith 15: Confucianism - Looking at the Confucian
The film begins by showing the inevitable outcome of the events of the film: the viewer is shown a scene of a man who is disabled by Alzheimer's Disease, set in the year 2010. The story then begins proper by switching back to an earlier stage in the life of the man, Masayuki Saeki in 2004. Masayuki Saeki is a brilliant and successful advertising company executive. Saeki is shown to be a prime example of an ideal Japanese white collar worker. He is strict, well organised, hard working, devoted to his job, and sets very high standards for himself and his subordiates. However he is soon shocked to realise that he is failing to meet up to his perfect standards. He starts inexplicably forgetting things - appointments, details of his work, and his knowledge of the layout of Tokyo. Following this he is diagnosed with alzheimer's disease, to which he reacts
Ashes and Snow

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Runtime: 60 min
Night of the Living Dead

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Runtime: 96 min
Gregory Colbert has used both still and movie cameras to explore extraordinary interactions between humans and animals. Colbert believes that nature doesn't have a style; it has a voice. The film aims to lift the natural and artificial barriers between humans and other species, dissolving the distance that exists between them. Colbert chose to film animals in their native habitats to create films that can be viewed as works of art or as poetic field studies.
The Ultimate in Horror. A Cult Classic that has stood the test of time. The first zombie movie of its kind, George A. Romero's "Night of the Living Dead" is an instant cult classic. A simple, peaceful countryside is being terrorized by killer zombies with only one thing on their minds - destroy all humans. A small stronghold of survivors must hold the zombies at bay outside and old, abandoned house for any future hope of humanity. Filled with spine-tingling, edge of your seat suspense, "Night of the Living Dead" is a masterpiece of thrills and horror that will leave you afraid to turn out the lights. Supplemental Material: Moreman, Christopher M. "A Modern Meditation on Death: Identifying Buddhist
The title Ashes and Snow suggests beauty and renewal, while also referring to the literary component of the exhibition-a fictional account of a man who, over the course of a yearlong journey, composes 365 letters to his wife. The source of the title is revealed in the 365th letter.
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Poem
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Runtime: 123 min
The Anniversary
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Runtime: 28 min
The last chapter of Jissoji's Ero-Buddhist trilogy, the other two are Mujo (1970) and Mandara (1971). The young houseboy in Uta wakes up every night to patrol the house of a teacher with a flashlight. He leads an austere life of meditation and he focuses his devotional attention on writing inscriptions for tombstones. In one of his tours he sees something he shouldn't have. The pervert pleasure of portraying him as a pillar of moral behaviour for the duration of the film is to see the downfall. As the teacher and his elder brother conspire to take over the mountain property of their grandfather and turn it over to realtors for a profit, Renge spends his time shuddering helpless, on his knees.
A simple Buddhist rite of remembrance frames this short dramatic work from talented young VietnameseAmerican filmmaker Ham Tran. Beautifully filmed by Before Night Falls cinematographer Guillermo Rosas, the film skillfully cuts between cruel childs play and the brutality of real warfare. The story offers a surprising view of human suffering even under war conditions, and Buddhism is presented not as an escape but as mindful reflection on this suffering. With a glimpse of the devastation in Vietnam and its aftermath, The Anniversary invites parallels between the violent situations there and the current state of global affairs.
Running On Karma
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Runtime: 93 min
The Undertaking
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Runtime: 50 min
The great Johnnie To (The Mission, Running Out Of Time, The Heroic Trio) directs this intriguing murder mystery with a touch of Zen. Andy Lau (Infernal Affairs, The Duel), in his most daring role to date, is Biggie, a huge, muscular Buddhist monk who knows kung fu and somehow has "Karma"--the ability to see things before they happen. Biggie's unusual characteristics soon arouse the interest of policewoman Yee (Cecilia Cheung), who begins to fall in love with him. But when Biggie's karma foresees Yee's impending death from murder, he has to do everything in his power to stop fate.
Thomas Lynch, 58, is a writer and a poet. He's also a funeral director in a small town in central Michigan where he and his family have cared for the dead -- and the living -- for three generations. For the first time, Lynch agreed to allow cameras inside Lynch & Sons, giving FRONTLINE producers Miri Navasky and Karen O'Connor rare, behind-the-scenes access -- from funeral arrangements to the embalming room -- to the Lynches' world for this film, The Undertaking.
The Lynch family believes that the rituals of a funeral are more than mere formalities. "Funerals are the way we close the gap between the death that happens and the death that matters," Lynch contends. "A good funeral gets the dead where they need to go and the living where they need to be."
Shaolin
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Runtime: 130 min
Todaiji
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Runtime: 27 min
Set during the early years of the Chinese republic, when feuding warlords waged constant wars to expand their power, young army leader Hao Jie (Andy Lau) and his sworn brother Huo Lung find little resistance invading the township of Dengfeng. The nearby Shaolin Temple opens its doors to the wounded and disciples Jing Neng, Jing Kong and Jing become masked Robin Hoods at night to help the poor. The young and arrogant Hao Jie then challenges the Shaolin masters when he learns they are helping his enemies. Hao Jie wins his duel and becomes even more arrogant. Nevertheless, the mighty Hao Jie experiences a swift and sudden fall, when he is betrayed by Huo Lung and finds himself at the doorsteps of the Shaolin Temple seeking help. While recuperating, Hao Jie learns the
NHK's BEGIN Japanology, hosted by Peter Barakan, invites you into the world of Japanese culture, both traditional and modern, explaining how traditions evolved and the part they still play today in people's everyday lives. Synopsis: Todai-ji (Eastern Great Temple),is a Buddhist temple complex located in the city of Nara, Japan. Its Great Buddha Hall (Daibutsuden), the largest wooden building in the world,houses the world's largest bronze statue of the Buddha Vairocana, known in Japanese simply as Daibutsu .
Soldier of Conscience
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Runtime: 86 min
What is Reality?
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Runtime: 50 min
Every soldier wrestles with his conscience over killing. Although most decide to kill, some refuse. Made with official permission from the U.S. Army, SOLDIERS OF CONSCIENCE reveals that far more soldiers decide not to kill than we might expect. Narrated by Emmy winner Peter Coyote, SOLDIERS OF CONSCIENCE profiles eight American soldiers: four who decide not to kill and become conscientious objectors, and four who believe in their duty to kill if necessary. The film reveals how everyone from West Point grads to drill sergeants, Abu Ghraib interrogators to low ranking reservist-mechanics, grapples with the morality of killing in war, not as a philosophical problem, but as soldiers experience it a split-second decision in combat that can never be forgotten or undone. Including
There is a strange and mysterious world that surrounds us, a world largely hidden from our senses. The quest to explain the true nature of reality is one of the great scientific detective stories. Clues have been pieced together from deep within the atom, from the event horizon of black holes, and from the far reaches of the cosmos. It may be that that we are part of a cosmic hologram, projected from the edge of the universe. Or that we exist in an infinity of parallel worlds. Your reality may never look quite the same again.
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Buddha Mountain
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Runtime: 105 min
Get Low
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Runtime: 103 min
Three young, inseparable friends while away the sweaty summer together in the provincial capital; Ding Bo, Fei Zao, and Nanfeng. Needing to find new accomodation, the three answer an advertisment by retired Beijing Opera performer Chang Yueqin, a lonely widow who is still grieving from her son's death in a car accident a year ago move into two rooms in her top-floor apartment. They go out one day to Guanyin Shan (Buddha Mountain), where they help repair a small Buddhist temple. Gradually, relations change between Chang and the youngsters start to improve, and Chang attains a new peace of mind. But then Nanfeng falls out with Ding Bo when she sees him making out with a girl at a party.
Robert Duvall is Felix Bush, the "Hermit of Caleb County," a man so haunted by his secrets that he has lived in quiet desolation in the Tennessee backwoods for over 40 years. Realizing that he is near his own mortality, Bush decides to have a "living funeral party," inviting people to tell their stories about him. Enlisting the help of Frank Quinn and Buddy Robinson, Bush goes through a process of self-discovery, allowing him to deal with his past secrets, including ones involving old flame (and new widow) Mattie.
A Chinese Tall Story

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Runtime: 103 min
Goddess of Mercy
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Runtime: 97 min
Language: Cantonese Subtitles: Chinese
Tang monk Tripitaka and his three disciples - Monkey king Sun Wukong, Pig monk Zhu Wuneng, and Sand monk Sha Wujing arrive at Shache City. During their stay in the city, the three disciples are captured by the Root of All Evils. Tripitaka saved by the Golden Pole and tries to find a way to save them. He meets a young lizard imp Meiyan. Meiyan falls in love with Tripitaka at first sight and devotes herself to trailing him. In this journey, Tripitaka meets a Princess Xiaoshan, she promises Tripitaka to save his disciples. Tripitaka decides to leave with the Princess. Meiyan is heartbroken, but she finally discovers her own identity as a galactic warrior. She eventually helps the Princess in defeating the enemy and rescues Tripitaka and his disciples. After the battle, Meiyan surrenders to the Celestial Court for judgment. Torn between passion and
With her elegant classic persona, Li Li-hua was the ideal performer for period aristocratic and imperial roles. The Goddess Of Mercy is a good example of her strong empathy and noble presence. The youngest daughter of a brutal king, the princess openly disapproves of the floggings and cruel treatment her royal family heaps on the peasants. As a result, the heartless king turns on his own daughter forcing her into exile. This humanistic tale will inspire and hearten even the most cynical viewer.
Echoes of the Rainbow

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Incense
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Its the spring of 1969 and the world will have to wait another six months before Neil Armstrong sets foot on the moonbut our young hero Big Ears is running through the streets of Hong Kong with a goldfish bowl on his head, pretending to be an astronaut. Big brother Desmond is a gold-medal track star and ace student who plays guitar and nurtures a nascent romance with soft-spoken Flora. Meanwhile, their parents work their fingers to the bone running a tiny neighborhood shoe store. Their dream is simple: All they want is for their children to have a better life than they didand this mood of nostalgic optimism and yearning is reflected perfectly by the 60s pop ballads wafting from big brothers transistor radio. But the sunny tone soon darkens as the family is beset by a slumping economy, social unrest and the onset of Hong Kongs annual
The film is shot from the Buddhist's perspective, emphasizing the modern lifestyle's emptiness and lack of spirituality. One main ideal of Buddhism is the elimination of all attachment to the material worlf in order to achieve enlightenment. The city dwellers replace enlightenment with material goods. Not only are they dispirited, but Buddhism itself becomes lost and empty. Ning Hao represents Buddhism in shots of a scarecrow in a cold, empty, snow-covered field. Later, the Buddha statue's head is placed on a scarecrow body, smybolizing the hollowness of the new Buddhism. In the capitalist economy, Buddhism is commericalized and becomes a hollow commodity produced for the paying masses, who buy it in a desperate need for spiritual fulfillment.
The Funeral
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The Invention of Lying

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The film shows the preparations for a traditional Japanese funeral. It mixes grief at the loss of a husband and father with wry observations of the various characters as they interact during the three days of preparation. The Funeral was the writing and directing debut of Itami Juzo, and was an enormous success in Japan. It won five Japanese Academy Awards, including Best Film, Best Director and Best Actor (Tsutomu Yamazaki). It was nominated in a further five categories and also came first in the annual Kinema Junpo critics' poll.
In a world where the human race has never evolved the ability to lie, a man who suddenly discovers how will change the world. With this superpower, he can get anything he wants. Well, nearly everything. Ricky Gervais (Extras, BBC's The Office) displays his hilariously deadpan acting talents in a comedy invention he co-wrote and co-directed.
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Master of Zen
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The Novice
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This is the story of a man named Dharma and his remarkable spiritual journey to China. Dharma was the third prince in the Kingdom of Hiong Chi in India. A potential successor to the throne, Dharma devoted himself to Buddhism rather than inherit his family's kingdom. Later on, Dharma went to China to spread the teachings of Buddha; and he arrived at Shaolin, where he imparted his martial arts knowledge to the Shaolin disciples.
The story focuses on a 14 year old; Pey, who has committed a crime Pa-Hin (throwing rocks at oncoming cars) with his partner, Tee. In order to keep the news low, his mom decides that Pey must be ordained to become a buddhist novice to escape from the crime he committed as monks cannot be arrested. While Pey remains unnoticed as a criminal by the law, his actions at a sanctuary disturbs a ceremony which was performed in order to "feed" the ghosts of the punished youth. Also, it is here where he has flashbacks of the night he caused his father's accident (and death) by throwing rocks at his car, mistaking him for a normal driver. While seeking repentance, was being punished by an invisible presence hurl rocks at him until he becomes severely disfigured. He attempts to call his mother for help but she only hears a high pitched cry.
Nang Nak
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Wake Up!
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Winner of 4 awards at the prestigious Pan Asia Film Festival, including Best Picture and Best Director Nang Nak is a haunting supernatural legend from Thailand. It tells the heartbreaking story of Nak, a loving wife whose affection for her husband Mak is quite powerful. Sperated by war, Mak finally returns home to find Nak has given birth to a son. The reunion seems idyllic until Mak gradually awakens to the horrifying truth that both his wife and child died long ago...
Zen Master Seung Sahns teaching documentary Wake up! On the Road with a Zen Master A professional and entertaining documentary that captures Zen Master Seung Sahns energy while presenting the core of his teaching. Wake Up! is not only a rare portrait of an unusual and provocative teacher, but also an introduction to Zen Buddhism today. Wake Up! was shot on location during a teaching trip in Europe by award-winning independent filmmaker Brad Anderson from Boston.
Rikyu
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Land of Disappearing Buddha

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Sen-no Rikyu, a Buddhist priest, brought the art of the tea ceremony (often said to embody the essence of Japanese culture) to perfection four centuries ago. Living in one of the most turbulent moments in Japanese history, Rikyu gained unexpected political influence as the confidant and cultural mentor to the powerful warlord, Hideyoshi Toyotomi. Rikyu's relationship with Hideyoshi is a story that has taken on epic proportions in Japanese cultural history. The film illustrates the classic struggle between art and politics, and between the impulse to create and the impulse to destroy. Like England's Thomas Beckett and Sir Thomas More, Rikyu was a spiritual mentor whose integrity eventually offended his powerful master, who demanded his death.
If the Buddha of India met the Buddha of Japan, would they recognize each other? To find out, this program talks to the staff in a Tokyo restaurant who keep regular Zen meditation schedules as part of their job, then on to the classical Zen calligraphy, swordfighting, archery and tea ceremony. Three great Rinzai Zen Masters of the 20th century appear in this video: Mumon Yamada (19001988), Omori Sogen (19041994) and Kobori Roshi Nanrei Sohaku (19181992) Mumon Yamada has authorized for the first and the only time in history, that camera can film the sanzen ( stritly private encounter of Master and student where student gives his answer to a koan )
The Heart of Mount Koya

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BBC - A Year in Tibet

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A rare glimpse and look at some of the actual practices and recorded ceremonies held at Okuno-in, the mausoleum of Kukai, surrounded by an immense graveyard (the largest in Japan), located on Mt. Koya-san. A visual and audio meditative tour through a fasinating and eye-opening experience of tradtional Japanese Buddhist practice.
Intimate documentary series following a year in the life of the society living in and around Gyantse, Tibets third largest town. Monks Behaving Badly: In the Pel Kor monastery, the director Choephel discovers that some irreplaceable statues have been stolen and the theft gives the local Communist Party an excuse to put in a government 'work team' to weed out monks they think are behaving badly. Lhakpa heads north in search of a lucrative job on a building site, and Butri gets an unpleasant surprise as she approaches her retirement. A Tale of Three Monks: Deputy head lama Tsultrim has to juggle running the
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Being in the World

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Extreme Pilgrim
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We quickly move beyond the Greeks and then beyond Descartes' mentalist notion ("I think therefore I am") of reality to Martin Heidegger's conception: reality and meaning exist where minds interact with the world. We see humans at work and at play: juggling, doing high-precision Japanese carpentry, flamenco, and cooking gumbo. While we watch them work and struggle to introspect and talk about their art and their craft, we also hear Hubert Dreyfus and his students reflect on Heidegger and his philosophy. Our artisans confess that they cannot explain in rational terms how they do what they do. The being is in the doing. Interviews and action intertwine to make a challenging philosophy clear to the lay viewer.
Extreme Pilgrim is a British television series presented by the Anglican vicar, Pete Owen-Jones who is researching the path of enlightenment and spirituality which he sees as having been lost by those in West. The first episode in the series see Peter travelling to the Shaolin Monastery of Henan Province, central China. The Shaolin Monastery, the ancestral home of all martial arts, and considered to be his most physically demanding phase of Pete's search as he looks into the teachings of the Indian Buddhist, Bodhidharma. Once there, he is introduced to meditation and follows a "punishing" regime of physical exercise. After becoming disenchanted with what he see as a "branding" of life at the monastery and an inability to achieve the levels of
Buddha's Warriors
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How to Live a Simple Life

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Expanding upon her award-winning investigative series God's Warriors, CNN chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour reports in a new documentary that examines the nexus of politics and faith. For Buddha's Warriors, Amanpour explores a new generation of Buddhists who are actively engaged in political struggle. These believers of love, kindness and nonviolence struggle to remain true to their beliefs while at the same time confronting severe political and cultural oppression. In Buddha's Warriors, Amanpour investigates the roots of the conflict between Chinese authority and ethnic Tibetans. Nearly 50 years
Inspired by his experiences in 'Around the World in 80 Faiths', part-time vicar Peter Owen Jones returns to credit-crunch Britain and to the realisation that modern life has become a frenzy of spending and working. He yearns for a life of simplicity and meaning - a deeper connection to both nature and people. Filmed over the course of nearly a year in his beautiful Sussex parishes, this three-part series follows Peter as he tries to turn his back on consumerism. In a radical experiment following the Rule of St Francis of Assisi, he has travelled across southern England without money. On the road, Peter glimpses the secret of a simple life. But can he apply the lessons of his road trip back in his parishes? And for how long can he live
Cave in the Snow

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I AM
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Why and how did an Englishwoman Dian Perry, daughter of a fishmonger from Londons East End, become a Buddhist legend and a champion for women to attain spiritual enlightenment? What was it she was looking for? From a very early age, I believed we were inherently perfect. I asked everybody; what is perfection? How do we attain it? This deep yearning for perfection led her to commit her life to attain enlightenment in the body of a woman. Enlightenment: the highest state of evolution a humankind could every achieve. The second westerner to be ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist nun, Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo secluded herself in a cave in the Himalayas where she spent 12 years
I AM is an utterly engaging and entertaining non-fiction film that poses two practical and provocative questions: whats wrong with our world, and what can we do to make it better? In I AM, Director Tom Shadyac steps in front of the camera to recount what happened to him after a cycling accident left him incapacitated, possibly for good. Though he ultimately recovered, he emerged with a new sense of purpose, determined to share his own awakening to his prior life of excess and greed, and to investigate how he as an individual, and we as a race, could improve the way we live and walk in the world.
Crazy Wisdom
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Invitation to Korean Buddhism

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Crazy Wisdom is the long-awaited feature documentary to explore the life, teachings, and "crazy wisdom" of Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche, a pivotal figure in bringing Tibetan Buddhism to the West. Called a genius, rascal, and social visionary; 'one of the greatest spiritual teachers of the 20th century,' and 'the bad boy of Buddhism,' Trungpa defied categorization. Raised and trained in the rigorous Tibetan monastic tradition, Trungpa came to the West and shattered our preconceived notions about how an enlightened teacher should behave - he openly smoked, drank, and had intimate relations with students - yet his teachings are recognized as authentic, vast, and influential. Twenty years after his death, with unprecedented access and exclusive archival material, Crazy Wisdom looks at the
Korean Temples and Nature: Today as usual, a temple in the mountains awakens with the sound of a Dharma drum. The Dharma drum is the sound not only for waking up monks who live in the temple, but also for waking up all the beings living on Earth. World Cultural Heritage Sites: Seokguram Hermitage, Bulguksa Temple and Haeinsa Temple are representative of the rich Korean Buddhist tradition. Daily Life in Korean Temples: Korea is known as the place where the tradition of Seon (Zen) Buddhism has remained the purest in the world.
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Kukai
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The Gateless Gate

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A grand scale historical saga! Transcending the last thousand years of time, the legendary Kukai's great journey is revisited! Kukai: he turned his gaze sharply into the form of all phenomena, and pursued the depths of their origination. The current production starring Kinya Kitaoji is a historical drama of a giant, Kukai, whose accomplishments were far reaching in influencing Japan's development.
The Gateless Gate is a place where one need to look deep within themselves and return to the real essence of self. It is both a type of Buddhist practice and a site for practice. Whether it be for 3 months or 6 months, you will not be allowed out of this monastic life. The Gateless Gate practice is practiced extensively in Korea, China, and India. This program portrays the Gateless Gate practice, and makes one look within themselves to penetrate the gate within their minds.
Ran
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Women of Tibet: A Quiet Revolution

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With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic in scope, the film is Kurosawa's late-life masterpiece, a profound examination of the folly of war and the crumbling of one family under the weight of betrayal, greed, and the insatiable thirst for power.
A Quiet Revolution begins on March 12, 1959 when 15,000 unarmed Tibetan women took to the streets of Lhasa to oppose the violent occupation of their country by the Communist Chinese army. For the first time on film, three generations of Tibetan women and His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama tell the story of one of the great movements of nonviolent resistance in modern history.
From the streets of Lhasa to their principal refuge in Dharamsala, India, the stories that live at the heart of this film offer an intimate and direct experience of what it is to lose everything and begin anew. Ama Adhe recounts 28 years spent in a Chinese prison
Seven Wonders of the Buddhist World

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Buddha: The Great Departure

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In this fascinating documentary, historian Bettany Hughes travels to the seven wonders of the Buddhist world and offers a unique insight into one of the most ancient belief systems still practised today. Buddhism began 2,500 years ago when one man had an amazing internal revelation underneath a peepul tree in India. Today it is practised by over 350 million people worldwide, with numbers continuing to grow year on year. In an attempt to gain a better understanding of the different beliefs and practices that form the core of the Buddhist philosophy and investigate how Buddhism started and where it travelled to, Hughes visits some of the most spectacular monuments built by Buddhists
The first in a planned three-film adaptation of Osamu Tezuka's fictionalized biography of Buddha, starting from Siddartha Gautama's youth as prince of Shakya and gradual disillusionment. Meanwhile, a young boy attempts to escape the life of a slave by becoming the military champion of the warlike kingdom of Kosala, a nation with its eye on Shakya's wealth of natural resources...
Sutra of Bodhisattva Ksitigarbhas

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The Chair of Monk Beopjeong

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The late Monk Beopjeong lived his whole life alone in a small temple in the mountains with no possessions. This human documentary of Monk Beopjeong from his childhood to his passing brings a person to his senses and gives limitless courage and overwhelming hope to live through this dangerous life. Giving sense of sharing, communication and mercy, Monk Beopjeong's lesson on no possession has come alive on video and has fragrantly bloomed once again.
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Griefwalker
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My Reincarnation
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This documentary introduces us to Stephen Jenkinson, the leader of a palliative care counseling team at Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital. Through his daytime job, he has been at the deathbed of well over 1,000 people. What he sees over and over, he says, is "a wretched anxiety and an existential terror" even when there is no pain. Indicting the practice of palliative care itself, he has made it his life's mission to change the way we die - to turn the act of dying from denial and resistance into an essential part of life.
My Reincarnation is an epic father-son drama, spanning two decades and three generations, about spirituality, cultural survival, identity, inheritance, family, growing old, growing up, faith, meditation, religion, magic, dreaming, Buddhism, Dzogchen and past and future lives. The film follows the renowned reincarnate Tibetan spiritual master, Chgyal Namkhai Norbu, as he struggles to save his spiritual tradition, and his Italian born son, Yeshi, who stubbornly refuses to follow in his fathers footsteps...
Enlightenment
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Shikoku Pilgrimage
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Orphans Woo-cheon and Michael have lived in the orphanage like brothers; they get into a religious conflict that is not resolved. Against the wishes of Michael who becomes a Catholic priest, Woo-cheon becomes a Buddhist monk. One day, Woo-cheon leaves on a 2-day journey with master monk Cheongsong. Woo-cheon gains enlightenment, helped by the kind teaching of Cheongsong, and meets Michael again.
The Shikoku Pilgrimage involves visiting 88 Buddhist temples spread across Shikoku, the smallest of Japan's four main islands.The route is 1,200 kilometers long, and to walk it takes around 50 days, although most people today ride in a car or bus for at least part of the journey.The pilgrimage can be traced back to Kukai, a 9th-century Buddhist high priest who reached enlightenment in the wilds of Shikoku. These days, many older people undertake the pilgrimage as a way of reflecting on their lives. Many young people do it to find out more about themselves.
Ikkyu-san
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Tulku
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Ikkyu is a little boy training to be a monk at Ankokuji Temple. Known for being mischievous and a bit of a troublemaker, but also extremely smart, Ikkyu constantly thinks of new ways to outwit his frustrated teachers, helping others at the same time. Ikkyu-san is an anime based on the historical Zen Buddhist monk Ikkyu that follows his mischievous adventures as a child during his stay at Ankoku Temple. In each episode, Ikkyu relies on his intelligence and wit to solve all types of problems, from distraught farmers to greedy merchants. CONTAINS 4 EPISODES. MORE EPISODES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.
At age three, Gesar Tsewang Arthur Mukpo, son of renowned Tibetan Buddhist teacher Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche and his British wife Diana, was identified as the reincarnation of the late Jamgon Kongtrul of Sechen, one of his father's own teachers in Tibet. Living in Boulder, Colorado and then Halifax, Nova Scotia, Gesar balanced competing cultures and strikingly different definitions of self. His life was far from that of an ordinary contemporary American or Canadian--his father was a world famous Buddhist teacher and author--but there was no monastery upbringing like that of perhaps the best known tulku, the Dalai Lama, or even like his father. And after his father's untimely death, he was on his own with this challenge...
Inside the Gate: An American Nun's Training Within Korean 236 BuddhismWith One Voice
2012 Overview: Bhikkuni Seon Joon, Yale graduate and American Jogye Order Buddhist nun, discusses the essential elements of Korean Buddhism and the daily life of women training to become monastics in modern Korea through her personal experience and photos. Documentary Runtime: 117 min 2009 Overview: Documentary
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With One Voice brings together mystics from fourteen different spiritual traditions to share their perspectives on the unifying truth that transcends all religions. In this seventy-eight minute documentary, these awakened teachers address profound questions about life and love, the existence of God, the path to spiritual awakening and the way to true peace in the world. Featuring interviews with:Ajahn Amaro, Joseph Goldstein, Bhante Gunaratana, Joan Halifax Roshi, John Daido Loori, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, plus many others!
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The Gatekeeper of Enmyoin

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The Outrage
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Teijun Ogawa, a proud and rare niso (female priest) of Japanese Shingon Buddhist Sect, dies after telling her story to Reiko and Max, a Japanese couple based in New York. She told them about her desolate life since she was given to a temple at the age of seven, and her achievement of building the Enmyoin temple single-handedly. But she refused to share her view as a womanas if the subject was taboo. Upon hearing the arrival of a young heiress, as though guided by old Teijun, the couple revisits Enmyoin. The GateKeeper of Enmyoin is the product of their journey in search of Teijun's unspoken feelings about her womanhood before and after her death. While the dark reality of Teijuns female priesthood in the man-dominant rural Japanese Buddhist culture is
Directed by Pantewanop Tewakul, the luscious period piece The Outrage transplants Rashomon to the ancient kingdom of Lanna in northern Thailand. Tewakul offers an intriguing remake of Kurosawa's classic story of a crime presented from differing views that conceal the truth and reveal the dregs of human nature. While passing through the woods with his procession, a nobleman warrior gets captured by a banditl, who is bewitched by the beauty of the warrior's wife. The warrior is later found dead in the woods, but the culprit behind his killing is unclear. The bandit, the wife, and the warrior's spirit all offer conflicting accounts of what happened in the woods that fateful day. After the trial, a young monk, an old man, and a woodcutter meet in a cave and discuss the incident, and yet another
Headshot
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Schooling the World

2010 Overview: If you wanted to change an ancient culture in a generation, how would you do it? Documentary
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Present-day Thailand is rife with corruption. Tul, a straight-laced cop, is blackmailed by a powerful politician and framed for a crime he did not commit. Disillusioned and vengeful, he is soon recruited to become a hitman for a shadowy group aimed at eliminating those who are above the law. But one day, Tul is shot in the head during an assignment. He wakes up after a three-month coma to find that he sees everything upside down, literally. Unaware of whether the condition is medical or a result of karmic retribution, Tul begins to have second thoughts about his profession. But when he tries to quit, roles are reversed and the hunter becomes the hunted. Then he meets a girl that turns his world even more upside down. Can Tul find redemption from the violence that continues to haunt him?
You would change the way it educates its children. The U.S. Government knew this in the 19th century when it forced Native American children into government boarding schools. Today, volunteers build schools in traditional societies around the world, convinced that school is the only way to a 'better' life for indigenous children. But is this true? What really happens when we replace a traditional culture's way of learning and understanding the world with our own? SCHOOLING THE WORLD takes a challenging, sometimes funny, ultimately deeply disturbing look at the effects of modern education on the
Jesus & Buddha

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Taenghwa: Strokes of Light

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Maybe we dont need to enter a monastery or go to the desert, but some form of discipline may be necessary if we are to move beyond the self as the center of identity and into the liberating vastness of the Buddha-field or the nourishing wholeness of the Christ-reality. Robert Kennedy, Chung Hyun Kyung and Paul Knitter lead us on an adventure through the spiritually rich terrain where Buddhist and Christian paths meet. As they share their experiences, we realize that the questions and struggles that motivate them are our own. And their reflections throw the light back on us. We can see better the prison of our ceaseless preoccupations, our obsessions, our animosities. Perhaps our own notions of the spiritual path have been limited by our need for answers and our desire for comfort?
Taenghwa, a type of Buddhist painting, helped propagate Buddhism and has served as an object of religion worship. Through our new program, we explore the Buddhist spirit and immerse viewers in the many faces and philosophies of Taenghwa - in how the art began during the Goryeo Era and developed with time. Man-bong, a devout Buddhist who has become an intangible cultural asset, demonstrates the process of creating Taenghwa. From the gathering of materials to the sketching and, finally, the coloring, he walks viewers through the art's procedure and significance. It's a process that unfolds along with the passing of the seasons and spans a year.
Our Life is Like Our Breath

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Taenghwa: Another Nirvana

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This inspirational documentary film describes daily life in the international forest monastery, Wat Pah Nanachat in Thailand. The film is interspersed throughout with the teachings of the great Thai Buddhist master Ajahn Chah. The viewer comes to know about the meditation practice, philosophy, and customs of the monks there through the eyes of a Swiss monk. The filmmaker himself lived for some time amongst the mostly Western forest monks and succeeds in showing, from an insider view, the spiritual practices at the monastery. One of the highlights of the film is the monks' jungle retreat in the far west of the country, very near to the border with Burma. This malaria infested national park
"Taenghwa: Another Nirvana" analyzes Buddhist paintings from Tibet, China, Korea and Japan. It examines the nature and meaning of Thangka (Tibetan Taenghwa) and a Tibetan lifestyle infused with such Buddhist traditions as distinct wedding ceremonies and festivals. The program features the distinct characteristics of Buddhist paintings from Chinese culture; pieces from the Goryeo era (works that are internationally renowned for their artistic excellence); and a Japanese Buddhism that focuses more on its statues than its paintings. Finally, "Taenghwa" also spotlights paintings from the Goryeo era preserved now in Japan. The works are considered aesthetic, cultural legacies and have been cherished for more than 1,000 years.
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Ven. Jian Zhen

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Old Plum Mountain: The Berkeley Zen Center

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What kind of motivation and inspiration made master Jian-Zhen devote years, exhausting his energy and money, to sailing to Japan in order to teach the vinaya? This animated film, follows master Jian-Zhen's footprints to learn from his perseverance. (The moon knows my aspiration of going abroad to pass on the torch; I will not be stopped by obstacles, teaching Buddhism with a pure heart) With five failing attempts, Master Jian-Zhen finally arrived at Japan at his sixth trip. Even when losing his eyesight, he still held on to his aspiration. He opened a new chapter of culture exchange between China and Japan. Not only that Master Jian-Zhen laid the
Old Plum Mountain: The Berkeley Zen Center, Life Inside the Gate, tells the story of the Berkeley Zen Center, one of the oldest, self-sustaining, lay practice centers in the nation. Founded in 1967 by the late Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, and his student Sojun Mel Weitsman, this uniquely American Zen Center offers to all, both lay and priest, a safe and supportive place to engage in a path of spiritual exploration. Told through the experiences of its membersas they practice Soto Zen's ancient rituals, do mindful work, cook and serve food, and sit zazenthis 65-minute documentary describes how this practice has dramatically changed, challenged, and sustained their lives.
The White Horse Temple

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Mandala
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White Horse Temple was built in 68 A.D., which was the first Buddhist temple constructed by the government. So its recognized as the founder home of Buddhism, that is, the birthplace of Buddhism. It is recognized as the first Buddhist temple in China.
The film follows the differing lives of two Buddhist monks in Korea. By following their lives and their interaction throughout the film, Im Kwon-Taek creates a contemplation of the nature of individualism, religious belief and enlightenment. Available for the first time on DVD!
Journey of a Dream
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Kumare
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JOURNEY OF A DREAM is a feature length documentary that will take audiences on an epic, global journey into heavy metal music, exile, Buddhism and Tibetan roots. Shenpenn Khymsars documentary debut is the first of its kind to document the political and emotional struggle of life as a Tibetan refugee, who got a chance to live the dream of possibilities in theWestern world through an unconventional form of expression Heavy Metal.
Kumar is a wise guru from the East who indoctrinated a group of followers in the West. Kumar, however, is not real he is the alter ego of American filmmaker Vikram Gandhi who impersonated a spiritual leader for the sake of a social experiment designed to challenge one of the most widely accepted taboos: that only a tiny 1% can connect the rest of the world to a higher power. Concealing his true identity from everyone he meets, Kumar forges profound and spiritual connections with people from all walks of life. At the height of his popularity, Kumar unveils his true identity to a core group of disciples who are knee-deep in personal transformation. Will they accept his final teaching? Can this illusion reveal a greater spiritual truth? Kumare, at once playful and profound, is an insightful look at faith
Samsara
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Cloud Atlas
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Expanding on the themes they developed in Baraka (BFC #7), Samsara explores the wonders of our world from the mundane to the miraculous, looking into the unfathomable reaches of mans spirituality and the human experience. Neither a traditional documentary nor a travelogue, Samsara takes the form of a nonverbal, guided meditation.
Six stories spanning centuries. One soul. Tom Hanks and Halle Berry lead an all-star cast in interwoven tales as time shifts between past, present and future. As characters reunite from one life to the next, their actions generate consequences. A killer evolves into a hero. An act of kindness inspires a revolution. Cloud Atlas combines science fiction, drama, mystery, action and romance into a film that's "utterly, wonderfully epic"
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Retreat
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Reactor
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RETREAT follows thirty-five Westerners as they attempt an intense, eight-week, silent, meditation retreat in Thailand led by the American Buddhist teacher, B. Alan Wallace. Some are experienced meditators, some are beginners. They're learning shamatha, or calm abiding...stilling the mind with sustained, one-pointed, concentration...simple enough sounding, but extremely difficult to do for more than a minute or so, and especially difficult to master...maintaining the object of concentration for up to four hours. Alan Wallace, formerly a Tibetan Buddhist monk and academic, teaches it through a Buddhist understanding of consciousness - in contrast to the prevailing materialist paradigm of modern neuroscience. The film follows the retreat from start to finish. Problems arise when one retreatant has a sustained psychotic episode and the
On March 11th, 2011 a 9.0 earthquake triggered a massive tsunami off the coast of Japan. This disaster resulted in an estimated 15,878 deaths and trillions of dollars in damage, including a partial meltdown at three reactors in the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. In April 2012, Yogi, Buddhist teacher and activist Michael Stone arrives on a pilgrimage to Japan in the wake of the tsunami and Fukushima meltdown to learn how the Japanese are responding to the crisis. Michael speaks with local residents, artists, activists, and researchers about life in the aftermath and reflects on the old Zen traditions and cities of beautiful temples. How we can embody the Bodhisattva vow in this time? REACTOR is a short film that aims to uncover how and
Silent Holy Stones

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The Cross and the Bodhi Tree

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The place where the story took place is none other than my home village, where the mountains and waters have always haunted my dreams. I long to tell the true stories in my own way that have come up in my home village, to disclose the real looks of her, and to reveal the genuine conditions of life of the people there...a reciprocal infiltration between tradition and modernism. Pema Tseden Pema Tseden (The Search, Old Dog) is the first Tibetan graduate of the Beijing Film Academy, and this is his dramatic feature debut. Made on location in a village in the Amdo region, the film follows a young lama assigned for Tibetan New Year to attend to the seven-year-old Living Buddha (tulku) of a mountain monastery. The young lamas try to balance their strict training with explorations of the outside world through the novelty of television, and make some surprising
This documentary film portrays the extraordinary spiritual journeys of Father Franois Ponchaud, a French Catholic priest, and Mother Rosemary, an English Anglican nun. The priest and the nun lead very different lives. Fr Ponchaud translated the Bible into Khmer and wrote the definitive history of the Catholic church in Cambodia. M. Rosemary entered a life of silence and prayer in her twenties. She took a sabbatical at Amaravati Buddhist Monastery in England, where she struck enduring friendships. Both Ponchaud and Rosemary have faced difficult questions posed by their head-on encounter with Buddhism. Questions like, "Has your contact with Buddhism
The Buddha's Forgotten Nuns

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KanZeOn
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Wiriya was raised a Buddhist, but like many women who wish to advance in their practice, she came up against walls of sexism within the traditional Theravada order. Is Buddhism a religious movement based on equality? Or is it rooted in a male dominated culture found in most other world religions? The Buddha himself invited women to join his group of disciples as female monks or bhikkhunis and allowed them to be ordained alongside men some 2500 years ago. What happened? In The Buddhas Forgotten Nuns Wiriya sets out to find out how the role of women in Buddhism changed so drastically and why so few womens orders remain today. She travels to Buddhist centres around the world, interviews nuns and monks, and examines the cultural
This is a mysterious and engaging journey through sound, song, story, ritual, performance, nature, tradition and Japanese Buddhisma fearless merging of medieval and modern, beautifully filmed with a variety of cinematic techniques on location in Japan. Both a documentary and a spiritual experience, KanZeOn explores sound in relation to Japanese Buddhism and guides the viewer into a world of ancient spiritual rituals and astonishing musical sensations. The title of the film is taken from the Japanese name for the bodhisattva of compassion, Kannon, which literally translates as she who hears the cries of the world. The film focuses on three individuals: Akinobu Tatsumi, a young Buddhist priest who moonlights as a DJ; Eri Fujii,
Bodhisattva
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Tokyo Waka
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Bodhisattva portrays the Seventeenth Gyalwa Karmapa, one of the most important lamas in the world of Tibetan Buddhism, at a unique moment in his trajectory as a teacher: his first visit to the United States (and the West). In this hour-long documentary, this young man of extraordinary warmth, humanity, humor, and charisma speaks to packed auditoriums and delights in encountering this new world.
Bodhisattva captures not only the Karmapas disarming honesty and genuine faith in his role as a bodhisattva, or one born to benefit others, but also reveals much about the fascinating question of transmission of religion, or belief system, from one culture to the next. The film includes many short excerpts from teachings given on the tour, where the Karmapa addresses the
Tokyo is a digital metropolis and wellspring of spectacular pop culture, its commercial crossroads carpeted with people day and night. Above them, watching from perches on buildings and power lines, are more than 20,000 crows. As their numbers soared in recent years, Tokyo fought back: trapping them, destroying nests, and securing trash. The crows adapted; they are among the smartest of animals. The 13 million people of Tokyo now live alongside them in a stalemate. TOKYO WAKA tells this story, and a larger one as well. A Buddhist priest comments on garbage as the remnants of desire; a gardener considers the relentless persistence of nature amidst urban grit; a homeless woman talks about forging community in her tent village
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Digital Dharma
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Digital Dharma is the chronicle of a cultural rescue. This feature-length documentary brings to light the magnitude of one man's inspirational 50-year quest to save the literary history of a disappearing culture and to preserve early lessons of mankind's consciousness. The life of E. Gene Smith is an epic story of destiny and compassion that leads a pacifist on a mission of survival. In an era of espionage and mistrust, Gene's mission becomes the catalyst for an international movement to save ancient writing and art from crumbling, literally, to dust... and then deliver them to the entire world. This powerfully moving account crosses multiple borders... geographical, political and philosophical...
Daughters of Wisdom
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DAUGHTERS OF WISDOM is an experiential and intimate portrait of the nuns of Kala Rongo, a rare and exceptional Buddhist Monastery exclusively for women in remote northeastern Tibet. Here, these women are receiving unprecedented educational and religious training, and preserving their rich cultural heritage even as they slowly reshape it. Some shy, some outspoken, all committed to the often difficult life they have chosen, the nuns graciously allowed our camera a never-before-seen glimpse into their vibrant spiritual community and insight into their extraordinary lives.
Streams of Light: Shin Buddhism in America

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Runtime: 62 min
This documentary film explores the history of Jodo Shinshu Buddhism in America through archival materials jointly maintained by the Buddhist Churches of America and the Japanese American National Museum (JANM), as well as interviews with priests who are actively serving temples in the United States. Through the efforts of the Kaikyoshi priests who have served over the past century, we see streams of the Dharma light that illuminates the past, present, and future of the transmission of Jodo Shinshu Buddhism in America.
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