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A wonderful introduction to the life of the Buddha. There are excerpts of the Dalai Lama and other monks which are very good, the narrated sections are of high quality, and some of the lay people have interesting things to contribute. I am relatively new to Buddhism.
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Mar 29, 2010 · If Buddhism ranks among the three most accomplished missionary religions of the world (along with Christianity and Islam), then the filmmaker David Grubin can well be considered a successful...
- The Buddha
- Unmistaken Child
- Ten Questions For The Dalai Lama
- Monk with A Camera
- Tulku
- Samsara
- The Dhamma Brothers
- The Tibetan Book of The Dead: A Way of Life
- Hannah: Buddhism's Untold Journey
- Walk with Me
The Buddha, a documentary by PBScame out in 2010 and was directed by award-winning filmmaker David Grubin. The film tells the story of the early life of the Buddha, his journey to enlightenment, and his teaching of traveling months and his establishment of the Buddhist community referred to in the tradition as the Sangha. Tons of thinkers, teachers...
Seeing as both Hinduism, Buddhism, and most parts of eastern culture assume reincarnation to be the natural state of things, it makes sense that here, we'd have a documentary on someone who seeks out a teacher from their past. Unmistaken Child is an independent film released in 2008, which chronicles the journey of Tenzin Zopa, a Tibetan Buddhist m...
Ten Questions For The Dalai Lama is a documentary film made in 2006, in which the director, a man by the name of Rick Ray meets Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama. Mixed into the interview segment which consists of 10 questions for him, is a history of Tibet in its modern state, a biography about The Dalai Lama, and the journey Rick went through to...
Monk with a Camera: The Life and Journey of Nicholas Vreeland was released in 2014. It's about Nicholas Vreeland, the grandson of a famous fashion editor. He worked for a while as a photographer, only to become a Buddhist monk later when he realized the futility of not using his human rebirth to work towards the attainment of Nirvana and the end of...
The 2009 documentary Tulku tells the story of 5 Tulkus, or reincarnated Tibetan Buddhist masters who were born in the west after the migration of most of the Buddhist community in Tibet to a variety of countries in the west. The director himself was the son of a monk and the monk's wife, which was in itself scandalous. The director, Gesar Mukpo was...
Samsara actually isn't necessarily a documentary so much as it's a picture book in film. It came out in 2001 and is based on a concept rather than narrative. "Samsara explores the wonders of our world from the mundane to the miraculous, looking into the unfathomable reaches of humanity's spiritualityand the human experience. RELATED: 10 Horror Movi...
The film The Dhamma Brotherscame out in 2007 and it details the prison meditation program at Donaldson Correctional Facility. The movie focuses on four men who had been convicted of murder and includes interviews with them about the changes they've noticed in their psyche after engaging in consistent Vipassana meditation. The Chaplain of the servic...
The Tibetan Book Of The Dead: A Way Of Life is a film that was created by Leonard Cohen, The Dalai Lama, and Ram Dass. It tells the viewer all about an ancient book called the Bardo Thodol, The Tibetan Book Of Living And Dying, or The Tibetan Book Of The Dead. The book tells of the journey that the soul of every sentient being goes through between ...
The 2014 film, Hannah: Buddhism's Untold Journeytells the story of Hannah Nydahl and her quest to bring Tibetan Buddhism to the west starting in the 60s. Her journey into Buddhism, in addition to many westerners during the 60s, began in a hippie community. She went later through the trails of Nepal to become one of the first two western students to...
Walk With Meis a film about a Zen community under the guru Thich Nhat Hanh. Zen is a tradition that grew out of Chinese Chan Buddhism, a tradition that made its way to Japan during the earlier half of the second CE millennium. It focuses mostly on Shikantaza, which translates roughly to "just sitting". There is no particular focus other than realiz...
This documentary for PBS by award-winning filmmaker David Grubin and narrated by Richard Gere, tells the story of the Buddha’s life, a journey especially relevant to our own bewildering times of violent change and spiritual confusion.
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In short, while it's a film I'd consider showing to my class at the outset of a series of lessons on Buddhism, I wouldn't recommend it to one who's read any of the sutras or studied Buddhism in depth. In that sense, it's good for what it is: an introduction to the life and teaching of Buddha.
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This documentary for PBS by award-winning filmmaker David Grubin and narrated by Richard Gere, tells the story of the Buddha’s life, a journey especially relevant to our own bewildering times of violent change and spiritual confusion.
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The Buddha: The Story of Siddhartha is a 2010 PBS documentary film directed by David Grubin and narrated by Richard Gere. It follows the story of Gautama Buddha 's life and discusses the history and teachings of Buddhism .
