A documentary by David Cherniack that looks the place of the oracles in Tibetan Buddhism, their history and their role in the current tradition.
Yogis Of Tibet
This film from 2002 is a look at the esoteric world of the Tibetan yogi, and includes interviews with the Dalai Lama and some outstanding practitioners in the modern era.
Green Gold: Restoring Degraded Land Resources
An overview of the work being carried out worldwide to restore heavily degraded lands. It is possible and it only takes a few years.
Conserving the Diamond Sutra
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.
Sakyamuni Pagoda
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.
The Cove – Atrocities against Dolphins
Academy Award winning film about a group of activists led by Ric O’Barry, filming the capture and slaughter of dolphins in Taiji, Japan.
The Longmen Grottoes in China
This documentary from CCTV Channel 9 gives within a short compass a tour of the Longmen cave complexes in Luoyang, and recalls their history.
Bhutan, the Last Shangri-la
A National Geographic documentary looking at wildlife in the remote Buddhist Kingdom of Bhutan.
They Call it Myanmar: Lifting the Curtain
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.
