Europe – Dharma Documentaries

Greek & Persian Influence on Early Buddhism

An exploration of the mutual influence of Buddhist and Greek cultures on one another.

The journeys of Marco Polo are retold in this well-illustrated film about his great voyage.

This film looks at the claims that the Venetian trader Marco Polo went to China and worked for Kublai Khan.

A look at the simple lifestyle of monastics from the Thai forest tradition in Germany

The developing ideas about art and civilisation in China.

A look at the very polluting “green” energy known as biomass.

A look at how landscapes in vastly different degraded environments can be brought back to life.

A portrait of the life of a young Western lama from 1998; and a film by the same lama in 2012.

A short documentary looking at the first Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Europe and its works.

A film following the life of Hannah Nydahl, one of the founders of Diamond Way Buddhism, and her encounters with many high Lamas.