Dharma – Dharma Documentaries

China’s Frozen Desert

A film looking at the connected lives of Aurel Stein and Xuan Zang.

A look at the efforts to rebuild the Tsurphu monastery, the traditional home of the Karmapas from 1988.

A short look at one of South Korea’s most important temples.

The third in a series of films about Buddhism looks at the rock cut caves of western India.

A look at the life and thoughts of a young Thai meditation teacher.

An animated film retelling the traditional life of the Buddha in an attractive form.

A documentary covering what happens when meditation is brought to inmates in a US prison.

A retelling of Jātaka 140 in which the Bodhisatta in born as a crow and saves his fellows from a brahmin’s anger.

An interactive retelling of the Antelope Jātaka before an audience of devotees at Birken Forest Monastery.

A retelling of the story about a weaver’s daughter who hears the Buddha and practices what he teaches.