This is a short documentary about the influential English monk Ven. Ñāṇavīra,
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 This 80-minute documentary presents an in-depth look at the famous Temple of the Tooth Relic in Kandy, Sri Lanka. Read More: Temple of the Tooth Relic  A 40-minute film covering the history and culture of Sri Lanka, and looking at the ancient capital of Anuradhapura, and moving on to Ritigala, Polonnaruwa, Sigiriya and finally the Temple of the Tooth in Kandy. Read More: Roots of Paradise (Sri Lanka)  Historian Bettany Hughes explains some of the basic Buddhist concepts, and at the same time show some of the riches of Buddhist culture. Read More: Seven Wonders of the Buddhist World  One commentCategories: Documentary Tags: America, Cambodia, China, Dhamma, India, Meditation, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Temples, Thailand  This film, made in 2001 by Stephanie Black, explores the effect that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has on poor countries by forcing them into globilisation. Read More: Life and Debt  The second of Arnaud Desjardin’s films about Tibetan Buddhism in which he looks more closely at the religious side of the culture, with an examination of the rites and rituals, yogic practices and meditation involved in Tantric Buddhism. Read More: Arnaud Desjardins: The Message of the Tibetans 2 – Tantrism  In 1964 and 1965 the French filmmaker Arnaud Desjardins gained access to the Tibetan community in exile, in the first filming of their life and culture allowed by the Dalai Lama since going into exile, which was compiled into two films which I will be showing over the next couple of weeks. Read More: Arnaud Desjardins: The Message of the Tibetans 1 – Buddhism  Contemplation of the charnel grounds and giving gifts to others are two of the ways the Buddha recommended to overcome selfishness. Here are some reflections on the subject, followed by today’s documentary which is about people who donate their bodies to medical science. Read More: Bodies Donated to Science and Monks  Film about a boy in Scotland who can remember with uncanny accuracy the details of a previous life and his visit to his old ‘home’. Read More: The Boy Who Lived Before  This is an hour long documentary with Harada Roshi giving many interviews on his visit to America in 1991 Read More: Man on Cloud Mountain  This is a dramatic reconstruction of the Life of the great Japanese monk Dogenwho flourished in Japan in the 13th century. Read More: Dogen, the Zen Master  A short video about the Jewish-American Soto Zen teacher, Norman Fischer, a disciple of Shunryu Suzuki, and his wife Michelle Meyrink, who is a Rinzai practioner. Read More: Zen Buddhism  In this episode of The Long Search Ronald Eyre goes in search of the Buddha in Japan, and finds himself increasingly farther away from his subject the nearer he gets. Read More: The Land of the Disappearing Buddha – Japan  Interview with the Burmese Premier U Nu around 1956 for the American series See It Now, in which he discusses Buddhism and appears to claim to have entered the first path (sotapatti). Read More: U Nu speaking about Buddhism  Here is a wonderful film by one of my favorite film-makers, Satyajit Ray, about the land, people and culture of Sikkim, made in 1971 while Sikkim was still a sovereign state. Read More: Sikkim (1971) – A Film by Satyajit Ray  Unmistaken Child is a 2008 independent documentary film, which follows a Tibetan Buddhist monk’s search for the reincarnation of his beloved teacher, the world-renowned Geshe Lama Konchog. Read More: Unmistaken Child  Recollections of my visit to Wat Suan Mokkh in the early 90s and a documentary about the great Thai monk Buddhadasa Bhikkhu. Read More: The Life and Works of Buddhadasa Bhikkhu  A remarkable film about a monk living in the Golden Triangle area on the Thailand/Myanmar border, who together with a nun is bringing up and training poor children from the nearby villages. Read More: Buddha’s Lost Children  Photograph by Seydou Keita In the fourth episode of this series, shown last week, we saw how photography had gone on to the streets and found its own voice there, where fine art had never been seen. In the fifth episode we find photography invading the very personal lives of people, including their additions, their sexual Read More: The Genius of Photography 6: Snap Judgements  This week’s episode looks at the way photographers found their own terrain on the streets of the cities, the highways and beaches of the post-war world. Read More: The Genius of Photography 4: Paper Movies |
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