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- 'Zen' Buddhist teacher Dogen Zenji is a very important religious person during the Kamakura period, 750 years ago. After his mother died, he decides to move to China and settle as a Buddhist teacher. One bright morning, enlightened, Zenji returns to Japan as a devoted evangelist of the 'new' Buddhism. However, this new form of Buddhism is not accepted in all communities.
- While the soccer World Cup is being played in France, two young Tibetan refugees arrive at a monastery/boarding school in exile in India. Its atmosphere of serene contemplation is somewhat disrupted by soccer fever, the chief instigator being a young student, the soccer enthusiast Orgyen. Prevented by various circumstances from seeing the Cup finals on television in a nearby village, Orgyen sets out to organize the rental of a TV set for the monastery. The enterprise becomes a test of solidarity, resourcefulness and friendship for the students, while the Lama, head of the monastery, contemplates the challenges of teaching the word of Buddha in a rapidly changing world.
- Two very different brothers get together for a temporary stay in a Japanese Zen monastery. The trip from Germany to Japan brings up some unexpected quests they need to manage. Soon both really must leave their ordinary lives behind to embark on a voyage to themselves.
- Enlightened Tibetan masters return as recognized "tulkus" -- reincarnated buddhas. In the 1970s, tulkus began to be born in the West, confusing both the Tibetan system and the lives of the Western children involved.
- A young Tibetan monk go back home for the New Year's celebrations. Fascinated by television, he wants to bring his family's television to the monastery to show it to his master.
- Un Buda follows two brothers orphaned as children when their parents were taken by military.
- The making of Martin Scorsese s Oscar-nominated film Kundun was an historic event, the first feature film treatment of the life of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet.
- A journey exploring the practices of Chinese hermits living in the Zhongnan Mountains.
- From a portrait of the Dalai lama as a spiritual and temporal leader, to an unprecedented revelation of the mystical inner world of monastic and an unflinching depiction of the moving response to a death in the community, the film takes the viewer on a journey deep into the heart of an ancient Buddhist way of life and brings you face to face with the unbroken continuity of Tibet's unique culture.
- It's a beautiful day today. We'll go for a walk and see some of the city.
- A portrait of His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama, which includes historical footage of China's repression of Tibetan Buddhism in 1959.
- Portrait of the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa.
- The classic film profile of renowned Vietnamese Buddhist teacher, author, activist and Nobel Peace Prize-nominee Thich Nhat Hanh.
- This film explores the many aspects of Matthieu Ricard's life. The 'happiest man alive' as Time magazine has called him. Ricard left a promising career in cellular genetics in France to devote himself to study Buddhism in the Himalayas forty years ago. Since then he has lived with the greatest living teachers of that tradition.
- Inside The Cup Khyentse Norbu on Cinema Khyentse Norbu is a renowned Tibetan Buddhist teacher. He also makes movies. His first two films, The Cup and Travellers & Magicians, were critical and box office successes. Inside The Cup explores the making of his first feature, about soccer-obsessed Tibetan monks, and offers a provocative case for a Buddhist philosophy of "life as cinema." Written and directed by Isaiah Seret (adapted from Life As Cinema, by Anika Tokarchuk)/2007/USA/22 minutes/color