This is a dramatic reconstruction of the Life of the great Japanese monk Dogenwho flourished in Japan in the 13th century.
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 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  This week’s episode is about the evolution of photojournalism, from its beginnings with the Frenchman, Henri Cartier-Bresson, one of the great photographers of the 20th century, up and to the coverage of the aftermath of 9/11. Read More: The Genius of Photography 3: Right Time, Right Place  The second documentary in this BBC series examines the various movements that arose in photography in the first half of the 20th century by focusing on some of the representative workers in the field. Read More: The Genius of Photography 2: Documents for Artists  Leave a commentCategories: Documentary, Photos Tags: America, Arts, Culture, England, France, History, Russia  This is the first in a series of documentaries tracing the evolution and the various uses of photography, and how it has changed the way we see the world, with some wonderful early examples of the technique.  In the second series of films about radical ecelogical architecture we move from the States to see how it is being implemented around the world. Read More: First Earth – Uncompromising Ecological Architecture – 2  A series of radical films made all over the world about new ideas in building and community, and how we move away from the mess we have only recently created. Read More: First Earth – Uncompromising Ecological Architecture – 1  This documentary is about the partition of India, one of the greatest humanitarian disasters in modern times, as peoples were divided along communal and religious lines, and turned against each other in a fury of violence. Read More: The Day India Burned: Partition  How America changed its wartime policy of not bombing civilian targets and was eventually involved in the bombing of the population at the centre of Berlin is the theme of this documentary. Read More: The Bombing of Germany  This is another impressionistic film about Cambodia, but it is much more solemn and haunting. It was filmed by Ellen Bruno in 1989, 10 years after the Vietnamese overthrew Pol Pot and set up their own government. Read More: Samsara – Cambodia  Dogora was filmed in Cambodia and focuses on the everyday life of the people: their travels, work, play and enjoyment. We see life both in the cities and in the countryside, and sometimes some very intimate pictures have been captured, particularly of the children. Read More: Dogora: Ouvrons les Yeux  This is one of the finest non-verbal films I’ve come across so even better that it is also connected with Buddhism, being taken at a remote Zen temple in the Japanese Alps. Read More: ZEN – A Fabian Enzinger Film |
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