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  1. Dor, Low is Better (1987 Video)

    Director
    Robert Boonzajer-Flaes
    Subject
    Anthropology; Music
    Distribution
    Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 47 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    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...

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  2. Wheel of Time (2007)

    Director
    Werner Herzog
    Subject
    Film studies; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 81 minutes), £19.99

    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...

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  3. Faith, Hope and Charity

    Date released
    28 Dec 1967
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    679
    NoS ID
    121950
    Story no
    1 / 1
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: The Moslem faith is worldwide but come to Morocco’s own Mecca - the hillside village of Moulay Idriss, a living shrine to King Idriss the Elder, warrior defender of the Islamic faith. Here,...

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  4. Tibetan Medicine: A Buddhist Approach to Healing (1985 Video)

    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 35 min., 1997 sale: £17.95 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    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...

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  5. Tao, The Way and Its Power (1976 Film, Video)

    Director
    Jeremy Marre
    Subject
    Religious studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    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...

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  6. Great Stupa Sculptures, The

    Subject
    Archaeology; Art; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 30 minutes), £9.99

    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...

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  7. Ceylon - The New Dominion

    Date released
    Mar 1948
    Series name
    This Modern Age
    Issue no
    17
    NoS ID
    347023
    Story no
    1 / 1

    BFI synopsis: Opening shots of an arch in Colombo and Ceylonese people. After the achievement of full independence, the opening of the new Parliament by the Duke of Gloucester is shown. A brief historical...

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  8. Liliane Lijn (2005)

    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 29 minutes), £13.99

    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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  9. Principles of Tibetan Medicine, The (1985 Video)

    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 300 min., 1997 sale: £57.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    In Rikon, Switzerland, Dr Tenzin Choedak, personal physician to the Dalai Lama gives a series of three talks covering the underlying causes of illness, diagnosis and treatment in traditional Buddhist...

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  10. Buddha, The (2010)

    Director
    David Grubin
    Subject
    Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 120 minutes), $24.99

    THE BUDDHA, a two-hour documentary from Emmy Award winner David Grubin, relates the life of the Indian sage who famously gained enlightenment as he sat beneath a fig tree two-and-a-half millennia ago. This...

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