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21) Walk with me
Author
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
©2017
Language
English
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With unprecedented access, 'Walk With Me' takes us deep inside the world-famous monastery of Zen Buddhist master Thich Nhat Hanh, and captures the life of a monastic community who have given up all their possessions for one common purpose - to practice the art of mindfulness. Filmed over three years, this visceral film is a meditation on a community determined to develop a deep sense of presence, not just for themselves but for all those they love....
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Each year, His Holiness the Dalai Lama travels the world, offering teachings and public talks to individuals from many different faiths and backgrounds. In 2010, His Holiness traveled to New York City to teach A Commentary on Bodhicitta by Nagarjuna and A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life by Shantideva. In his talk, His Holiness discusses ways in which one can achieve the realization of selflessness and ultimately achieve inner peace, which generates...
Publisher
Festival Media
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
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Profiles the full range of Thich Nhat Hanh's life and work, documenting his efforts to help heal a world in conflict and provide tools for anyone, from any tradition, to lead a mindful and meaningful life. Includes rare archival footage of his peace work in Vietnam during the war.
DVD bonus feature - public talk by Thich Nhat Hanh in Berkeley, California.
Author
Publisher
Shambhala Publications
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
These teachings and practices, recorded live during a three-day retreat, are based on teachings Pema received from her teacher Chögyam Trungpa. Behind any of the fears that stop us in our tracks lies the most basic fear of all: fear of ourselves and of our encounter with the present moment. Experience Pema's transformative teaching on finding the bravery that lives in you just below the surface of that primal fear.
Publisher
Freedom Behind Bars Productions
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
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An overcrowded maximum-security prison is dramatically changed by the influence of an ancient meditation program. A dramatic tale of human potential and transformation that closely follows and documents the stories of the prison inmates.
Publisher
Wellspring Media
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
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Documentary containing remarkable footage of the rites and liturgies surrounding and following the death of a Ladakhi elder. The Dalai Lama explains his own feelings about death, while other scenes within a palliative care hospice in San Francisco depict the use of the texts to counsel dying patients.
30) Little Buddha
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Video [distributor]
Pub. Date
[2004], c1994
Language
English
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Tibetan monks think that they have discovered the reincarnation of Buddha in a small American boy.
Publisher
Monterey Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
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Description
Ten questions are posed to His Holiness the Dalai Lama by filmmaker and explorer Rick Ray. Ray examines some of the fundamental questions of our time by weaving together observations from his own journeys throughout India and the Middle East, and the wisdom of an extraordinary spiritual leader.
32) Unmistaken child
Publisher
Oscilloscope Pictures
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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Follows the journey of a Tibetan monk as he searches for the child who is the reincarnation of his late master, the Lama Konchog.
33) Circle of iron
Publisher
Blue Underground
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
A mysterious blind man leads a young fighter on a quest for truth.
Publisher
Alive Mind
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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A contemporary fresh look at what is truly important for the fourteenth Dalai Lama: The ongoing confrontation between Tibetans and China; His Holiness's influence in political and spiritual spheres; his work with educators and neuropsychologists; and his personal feelings on aging, dying and the question: Will there be a fifteenth Dalai Lama, or will he be the last.
Publisher
Wakan Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Description
The film is fifteen year realization of a cinematic dream that presents the profound and life-changing journey of innovative Western thinkers who travel to India to meet with the Dalai Lama to solve many of the world's problems.
37) Life: Season two
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Charlie Crews is an eccentric detective returning to the force after being wrongfully imprisoned. Back on the beat with his determined partner, Dani Reese, and his unusually Zen-like outlook toward the cases he investigates, this unconventional crime solver tries to catch the LA wrongdoers who really belong behind bars.
39) Zen for nothing
Publisher
Distributed by Kino Lorber, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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"Zen for Nothing is a masterly immersion into life at a Japanese Zen monastery over three seasons. Swiss novice Sabine arrives at Antibi and, after a brief welcome, she begins to learn the monastery rules: how to bow, sit in the meditation hall, carry out movements with chopsticks, etc. There's more to life there than meditation, farming, and maintenance, however--there are picnics, music, and Wi-Fi. And after the last snow has melted away, the nuns...
40) The venerable W
Publisher
Distrib Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Evil comes in many forms. In Myanmar, it manifests in the casual racism and Islamophobia of influential, charismatic Burmese Buddhist monk Ashin Wirathu. Through interviews with journalists and community leaders who protest against Wirathu's views, activist footage of Rohingya persecutions, and through powerful storytelling, director Barbet Schroeder slowly builds his case. Perhaps most damning of all are the interviews with the man himself; couching...