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This documentary takes a look at the life of spiritual writer and meditation teacher Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, a Tibetan Buddhist who has helped teach the practice of meditation to the Dalai Lama, the royal...
A series of 3 short videos created to provide background information about Korean history and society for visitors to the Samsung Gallery of Korean Art at the V&A. BUDDHISM IN KOREA (2 min 32 secs) Buddhist...
Records the funeral of Dhardo Riompoche, a highly regarded Buddhist lama. Hundreds of people were involved in the traditional Tibetan death ritual. Shows ten minutes of the Rimpoche performing a puja for...
The American ‘beat’ poet Alan Ginsberg discusses his experiences with Buddhism and his work with R D Laing. Most of the conversation is given over to exchanges about gurus and meditation centres.
An experimental approach to the comparative study of cultures: the monks of a Tibetan monastery compare their own flutes with the Swiss alphorn and the Dutch windhorn introduced to them by the...
Herzog’s documentary film about the largest Buddhist ritual to promote peace and tolerance, held by His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Bodh Gaya, India and Graz, Austria in 2002. The film includes exclusive...
Tibet’s first woman physician, the late Ama Lopsang Dolma, shows how medicines are made from animal, vegetable and mineral substances and how acupuncture and moxibustion (burning the herb moxa on the skin...
Tao, meaning ‘the way’, was a word the Chinese used more than two thousand years ago ‘to explain the unexplainable’ - the relationship of man to the universe. Taoism lies at the root of almost all...
The 2000-year-old sculptures from Amaravati are among the greatest treasures at the British Museum. Depicting Buddhist themes and events in the life of the Buddha, they once embellished the Great Stupa at...
Science and Surrealism, ancient myths, Buddhism and feminism are among the frameworks of ideas important to Liliane Lijn’s art. In Paris at the end of the 1950s, in Greece and New York, and in England...
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