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Shot under extreme conditions, this film documents the ancient traditions and day-to-day rituals of a Tibetan nomadic community. Filmmaker Ulrike Koch reveals a realm untainted by the tides of foreign...
In September 1994 an international expedition to Tibet to investigate a controversy linking the uplift of the Tibetan plateau with changes in the earth’s climate - with cooling and the strengthening of the...
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...
Follows a working day among the Tibetan women carpet weavers in Jawalakhel, on the edge of the Kathmandu valley in Nepal, discussing such subjects as relationships between gender and labour, children and...
Aims to show the essence of the cultural life of Tibetan Buddhists by examining their religious rites. Shows the main temple in Dharamsala, and scenes from Benares, Darjeeling and the western Himalayas, with...
Looks at how the unique Tibetan culture and religion is being preserved in exile in Scotland.
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...
Documents the Tibetan new year celebrations carried out by the monks of the only Bonpo community outside Tibet, located in the foothills of the Himalayas. Shows the enactment of the annual ceremony with the...
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...
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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