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- An American travels into Bhutan in search of a valuable antique rifle and crosses paths with a young monk who wanders through the serene mountains, instructed by his teacher to make things right again.
- A work of visual awe and matter-of-fact spiritual inquiry, Dark Red Forest is a majestic documentary portrait that details the annual retreat of thousands of Tibetan nuns to small wooden houses on the vast Tibetan Plateau. With extraordinary intimacy, the camera nestles in with the women of the Yarchen Monastery, who, during the 100 coldest days of the year, learn about-and in some cases experience-profound matters of life and death, suffering and healing, karma and consequence. A document of the experiences of a group of increasingly politically embattled people, Jin Huaqing's film is also a clarifying work of faith and philosophical inquiry, set against a forbidding landscape.
- The documentary film The Jewel follows the process of creating a Buddhist monument of Enlightenment, Stupa Sofia, in its entirety. In an inspiring and understandable way, it reveals their deep symbolism and meaning.
- Amaravati - The town that lives for ever (in the Telugu language).
- Visit to the ancient and spiritual city of Koyasan.
- For centuries, Nepal remained closed to the world, an enclave between two giants, China and India. The country saw its borders officially opened in 1951. Today increasing numbers of visitors come to discover this land at the ends of the Earth, its cradle of spirituality.
- Join us on an incredible journey to Indonesia where we will be transported to the very center of the beautiful history of this region as we visit a pair of exceptional Buddhist buildings: Borobudur Temple and Prambanan Temple.
- The Indonesian archipelago is a vast region of islands, craters, dragons, and jungles. As we sweep across the Indian Ocean, we will travel from Sumatra to Sumba, and we will help you create an itinerary especially suited to your interests.
- We we explore who is Buddha and what are the core beliefs of Buddhism.
- The discovery 200 hundred years ago of the massive stone structure of Borodudur abandoned in the jungle of central Java naturally gave rise to many questions. Even the most basic questions like; what is it doing in the middle of a wilderness and how was it built are a puzzle. Only in recent years has it become clear that it is the largest Buddhist temple ever built and it is more than a thousand years old.
- Beginning of the journey in Rangoon: since 2011 Burma is opened to the tourists.Raphael meets Thurein Aung , an architect who works for the restoration old buildings.They visit the Shwedagon Pagoda, a site with a great stupa (98 meters high) and 72 other pagodas.Raphael meets also Jochen Meissner who organizes bike tours through several unknown parts of Rangoon.We see also a family of puppeteers who try to preserve this Burmese art.At the Shwedagon Temple there is a weaving competition.Next day Raphael goes to Taunggyi to see the Lightning festival: in the day people send hot air balloons in form of animals and in the night they send hot air balloon with paper lanterns.In the markets and others places Raphael notices that women use white powder on their faces, it's tanaka.Later Raphael meets Phyu Phyu Kyaw Thein, a 34 years old pop star.Then Raphael travels to Lake Inle: he meets a canoe builder, , a woman who harvests tomatoes on floating gardens and sees also the fishermen on the lake.In the same place Raphael meets young Buddhist monks who receive their food from the people. At Kalaw Raphael visits the Green Hill Valley Camp for elephants which enjoy there their retirement.Then Raphael goes to Bagan: on an hot air balloon he can the hundreds of pagodas from above, later he meets Charles-David Hay who shows him some less touristic pagodas and a workshop of lacquered objects at the Minkaba village.Besides we see a zoom about a woman buying gold in Mandalay ,she goes to a workshop where they transform the gold into strips and later in another workshop they transform the strips into gold leaves.In the Mahamuni Temple the people decorate the Buddha statue with these gold leaves.