To Mark H.H. The Dalai Lama’s Birthday, Festival of Films at Main Building, IIC - 4th & 6th July 09

Time : 6:00 pm

Entry : Free

Event Details : To Mark H.H. The Dalai Lama’s Birthday, Festival of Films.
4th July :
Zen Buddhism – In Search of Self (South Korea)
(62 min; dvd; 2007; English subtitles)
Director: Gong Jae Sung
Following a tradition dating back over 1000 years, two dozen Buddhist nuns gather for a ninety day period of meditation, fasting and contemplation deep in the mountains of South Korea. In this first ever documentary on the practice of Dong Ahn Geo (Winter Zen Retreat), the film takes viewers into the Baek Hung Buddhist Temple to witness not only a deep spiritual discipline but an almost childlike joy and simplicity
Amongst White Clouds (86 min; dvd; 2007; English & with subtitles)
Director: Edward A. Burger
An unforgettable journey into the hidden tradition of China’s Buddhist hermit monks living in scattered retreats dotting China’s Zhongnan Mountain range. A practice started some five thousand years ago, it was widely believed that the tradition had been wiped out, but the film emphatically and beautifully shows otherwise
6th July :
To Lhasa and Shigatse (73 min; dvd; 1935; silent)
Directors: C. Sudyam Cutting & Arthur Vernay
Charles Sudyam Cutting, American ethnologist and botanist, visited Tibet in 1930, 1935 and 1937. This expedition film is a record of a collecting trip organised under the auspices of the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
'Mustang – Journey to Transformation' (30 min; dvd; 2008; English & with subtitles)
Director & Producer: Will Parrinello
Narration: Richard Gere
Lost in time, the Himalayan kingdom of Mustang is one of the last sanctuaries of authentic Tibetan Buddhist culture. But long isolated by geography and politics, the people struggle to survive and the centre of their culture, the fifteenth century monasteries and the art within are dangerously close to collapse

Collaboration : Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness The Dalai Lama

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