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 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  A short introduction to the life and works of the model Buddhist King Asoka, who reigned over most of the Indian sub-continent a couple of hundred years after the Buddha’s parinibbana, and was instrumental in making the religion an international one. Read More: Bhante Anandajoti: The Life of King Asoka  Video of the China Disabled Peoples Performance Art Troupe, with their lead dancer, Tai Lihua, performing the famous Buddha with a Thousand Hands dance, recorded for German TV in 2008. Read More: Buddha With A Thousand Hands (2008)  The Emperor requests Xuanzang to write his Records of the Western World and he gains partonage to start his translation work. He translates some of the most voluminous of the Mahayana works, but eventually his health deteriorates and he passes away. Read More: The Journey of Xuanzang 11 & 12  These two episodes cover the last years of Xuanzang’s sojourn in Nalanda, his great debates, and eventually his departure, and return across the Silk Road to the China of the Tang Dynasty. Read More: The Journey of Xuanzang 9 & 10  Xuanzang travels down through India and eventually reaches Nalanda, where he is to stay for 10 years in all. Much information about the foundation of Buddhism, its propogatation under King Asoka, and the glories of Nalanda. Read More: The Journey of Xuanzang 7 & 8  In these episodes Xuanzang crosses Central Asia and makes his way down through what is now Afghanistan and eventually on into Kashmir, where he spent the next two years studying. Read More: The Journey of Xuanzang 5 & 6  In these episodes Xuanzang reaches Gaochang, where he is welcomed by the King. He crosses the dangerous Yanqi and spends a few months in Kuch, before crossing over the Pamir and emerging into Central Asia, with only half his original party left. Read More: The Journey of Xuanzang 3 & 4  These episodes narrate the birth of Xuanzang and his childhood, his ordination, search for the true Dharma, and his meeting with the Indian monk Prabhākaramitra, and the beginning of his journey to India. Read More: The Journey of Xuanzang 1 & 2  The Journey of Xuanzang is a lavishly illustrated 12-part biography of the great Chinese traveler and translator Xuanzang, based on Records of the Western World and A Biography of the Tripitaka Master. Read More: The Journey of Xuanzang: An Introduction  This documentary provides a lot of fresh material showing how the commodification of such a basic resource as water is actually killing people right here and now, but no one seems to be held accountable for it. Read More: FLOW – For the Love Of Water  In this last episode we first visit Kashgar, the Town of Beautiful Tiles, which is where the Silk Road meets up again, after crossing the Taklamakan desert via two different roads. Read More: The Silk Road 12/12: Two Roads to the Pamirs  This week the expedition, which has been traveling along the southern trade routes, doubles back and explores the area along the northern route. Read More: The Silk Road 11/12: Where Horses Fly Like the Wind  The pipa (Chinese: 琵琶) is a four-stringed Chinese musical instrument, belonging to the plucked category of instruments. Sometimes called the Chinese lute, the instrument has a pear-shaped wooden body with a varying number of frets ranging from 12–26. Read More: Liu Fang playing the Pipa (Chinese Lute)  The theme that runs throughout this week’s episode is music and dance. It includes some of the most interesting ethnographic photography of the Uighars in Kucha along the southern route passing through the Tian Shan mountains. Read More: The Silk Road 10/12: Journey Into Music, South Through the Tian Shan Mountains  This is a beautiful recitation of a translation of the Heart Sūtra by Marina Lighthouse, along with some atmospheric black and white photographs from Borobudur and elsewhere. Read More: The Heart Sutra recited by Marina Lighthouse  Although there is little of archeological interest in this episode, it remains one of the most memorable as the team take a trip along the newly constructed Turfan to Korla railway, which must be one of the really great railway journeys in the world. Read More: The Silk Road 9/12: Through the Tian Shan Mountains by Rail  The expedition continues its journey westwards through Turfan, The Land of Fire, visiting a dried-up lake 150 metres below sea level, and the Fire Mountains on the way.  There is very little archeology or art in this episode. The expedition flies over the desert in search of the ruins at Dan-dan Oilik, which was visited by Aurel Stein, but fails to find it as it had been covered by the desert at the time. Read More: The Silk Road 7/12: Khotan-Oasis of Silk and Jade  This episode sees the expedition crossing the southern route of the Taklamakan desert, which in the Uighar language means the place from which no living thing returns. |
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