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Tag: Lay Teachers

The Antelope Birth (told by Margo McLoughlin)

Posted on July 22, 2019July 22, 2019 by Dharma Documentaries
The Antelope Birth

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

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The Acrobats, Citta & Sambhūta (told by Margo McLoughlin)

Posted on July 15, 2019July 15, 2019 by Dharma Documentaries
The Acrobats, Citta & Sambhuta

A magical retelling of a story which traces the lives of friends as they pass from life to life.

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Hannah, Buddhism’s Untold Journey

Posted on September 1, 2017March 22, 2022 by Dharma Documentaries
Hannah, Buddhism

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

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Reactor with Michael Stone

Posted on August 28, 2017August 28, 2017 by Dharma Documentaries
Reactor with Michael Stone

A film that follows Michael Stone on his unusual pilgrimage to Japan in 2012.

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Transmission of Diamond Way Buddhism

Posted on August 25, 2017August 25, 2017 by Dharma Documentaries
Transmission of Diamondway Buddhism

A look at Lama Ole, the founder of Diamond Way Buddhism, a European lay organisation teaching in the lineage of Tibetan Buddhism.

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Lost in the Midst of Time

Posted on August 5, 2016August 5, 2016 by Dharma Documentaries

A film following the research into the original author of a famous Dhamma book in Thai, who turns out to be a Thai lay woman (Thai, English subtitles).

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Buddha in Zululand

Posted on November 6, 2015June 30, 2016 by Dharma Documentaries

A short documentary about the Buddhist Retreat Centre in South Africa and the impact it is having on the local community.

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David Eckel: Buddhism 1-2 of 24

Posted on September 12, 2014March 15, 2022 by Dharma Documentaries

The first two lectures by Prof David Eckel on the history of Buddhism gives a course overview and a look at the background to the society the Buddha was born into

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Zen Buddhism

Posted on November 18, 2011October 22, 2013 by Dharma Documentaries

A short video about the Jewish-American Soto Zen teacher, Norman Fischer, a disciple of Shunryu Suzuki, and his wife Michelle Meyrink, who is a Rinzai practioner.

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U Nu speaking about Buddhism

Posted on November 4, 2011October 22, 2013 by Dharma Documentaries

Interview with the Burmese Premier U Nu around 1956 for the American series See It Now, in which he discusses Buddhism and appears to claim to have entered the first path (sotapatti).

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