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Conserving the Diamond Sutra

Posted on March 15, 2013January 26, 2019 by Dharma Documentaries

This 15-minute film is afascinating look at the decade-long conservation effort being made on the oldest, complete, dated printed book in history, a scroll of the Diamond Sutra, from 868 CE.

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Sakyamuni Pagoda

Posted on March 8, 2013March 18, 2022 by Dharma Documentaries

This is a four-part series of short, 20-minute documentaries about the famous Sakyamuni Pagoda in Ying County, Shangxi Province, China, which is the tallest wooden Pagoda in the world.

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The Longmen Grottoes in China

Posted on February 15, 2013January 8, 2017 by Dharma Documentaries

This documentary from CCTV Channel 9 gives within a short compass a tour of the Longmen cave complexes in Luoyang, and recalls their history.

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Bhutan, the Last Shangri-la

Posted on February 8, 2013October 22, 2013 by Dharma Documentaries

A National Geographic documentary looking at wildlife in the remote Buddhist Kingdom of Bhutan.

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They Call it Myanmar: Lifting the Curtain

Posted on February 7, 2013October 20, 2013 by Dharma Documentaries

Filmed over a two-year period before the 2011 elections that started the slow changes that Myanmar’s reformist government introduced, this 80-minute documentary by Robert Lieberman shows what an uphill struggle the country is going to face simply to catch up.

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Nourished by the Mekong River: Lasting Faith

Posted on January 18, 2013October 19, 2013 by Dharma Documentaries

This episode of the series looks at the part faith plays along the Mekong River, and takes a look at the different traditions, ordination procedures, almsround, pagodas and palm-leaf scriptures.

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Life of Buddha by Martin Meissonnier

Posted on December 21, 2012January 23, 2022 by Dharma Documentaries

A 90-minute film made for French networks in 2003 about the Life of the Buddha, featuring traditional story-tellers and interviews with archeologists, pandits and monks.

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In the Footsteps of Great Tibetan Yogi Milarepa

Posted on December 14, 2012December 18, 2022 by Dharma Documentaries

A film looking at the places associated with the great Tibetan yogi Milarepa both in Tibet and Nepal. The film also tells much of the story of his life along the way.

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In the Footsteps of a Yogi

Posted on December 7, 2012June 22, 2023 by Dharma Documentaries

A wonderful record of a pilgrimage to Lapchi in a remote part of Nepal by Nubpa Rinpoche and his disciples to visit the holy sites associated with Milarepa.

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Buddhism in Russia

Posted on November 30, 2012 by Dharma Documentaries

Two documentaries from Russia Today about Buddhist regions of the country, the one is the farthest west Buddhism was established in pre-modern times, and the other the farthest north.

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