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Puja Pantai

Date released

8 Oct 1956

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1427

NoS ID

021241

Story no

6 / 9

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Puja Pantai (Festival of Prayer - Held Every 7 Years). DESCRIPTION: Held every seven years by Malay fisher folk, Puja Pantai is a festival of prayer and thanksgiving to the Spirit of...

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Death Ritual of Dhardo Rimpoche, The (1991 Video)

Subject

Anthropology; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 42 min., 1998 sale: £34.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

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...

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India - Bengali Religious Festival

Date released

Apr 1973

Series name

Roundabout

Issue no

131

NoS ID

328144

Story no

4 / 4

COI synopsis: The Indian festival of Durga Puja.

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Jains, The: A Religious Community in India (1985 Video)

Director

Marcus Banks; Caroline Humphrey; James Laidlaw

Subject

Anthropology; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

Looks at life of the Jain community in the city of Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. Description of ancient and modern temples. Interviews with monks and nuns, and with believers who come to the temple to make...

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Wages of Action, The: Religion in a Hindu Village (1988 Video)

Producer

Charles Cooper

Subject

Religious studies

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min.

Looks at a rage of Hindu activities in a North India village: rituals performed by different castes, an exorcism sequence, a wedding ritual, a Sattya Narain puja, a pilgrimage to the Ganges, and a variety of...

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Diya (2002)

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL NTSC, 55 minutes), £50.00 +VAT +p&p

A diya is a small terra cotta oil lamp used throughout India in Hindu ceremonies. The film follows the life history of an object through the every day experience of people who make, sell and use it in the...

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Shaktima No Veh (2006)

Director

Jayasinhji Jhala

Subject

Anthropology; Drama; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1, 60 minutes), $195.00

The Goddess Shaktima is the most popular goddess in the region of Saurashtra (Western India) known as Jhalavad. This documentary presents the story of Shaktima as performed by the traditional muslim Bhavai...

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