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Buddha With A Thousand Hands (2008)

Posted on August 20, 2011October 21, 2013 by Dharma Documentaries

Video of the China Disabled Peoples Performance Art Troupe, with their lead dancer, Tai Lihua, performing the famous Buddha with a Thousand Hands dance, recorded for German TV in 2008.

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ZEN – A Fabian Enzinger Film

Posted on July 22, 2011October 30, 2019 by Dharma Documentaries

This is one of the finest non-verbal films I’ve come across so even better that it is also connected with Buddhism, being taken at a remote Zen temple in the Japanese Alps.

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The Great Compassion Mantra Of Avalokitesvara

Posted on July 2, 2011November 4, 2020 by Dharma Documentaries

This is a wonderful rendition of the third Great Compassion Mantra as found in the Chinese tradition with some beautiful images uploaded with the victims of the Japanese Tsunami in mind.

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The Journey of Xuanzang 11 & 12

Posted on June 10, 2011December 26, 2016 by Dharma Documentaries

The Emperor requests Xuanzang to write his Records of the Western World and he gains partonage to start his translation work. He translates some of the most voluminous of the Mahayana works, but eventually his health deteriorates and he passes away.

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The Journey of Xuanzang 9 & 10

Posted on June 3, 2011December 26, 2016 by Dharma Documentaries

These two episodes cover the last years of Xuanzang’s sojourn in Nalanda, his great debates, and eventually his departure, and return across the Silk Road to the China of the Tang Dynasty.

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The Journey of Xuanzang 7 & 8

Posted on May 27, 2011December 26, 2016 by Dharma Documentaries

Xuanzang travels down through India and eventually reaches Nalanda, where he is to stay for 10 years in all. Much information about the foundation of Buddhism, its propogatation under King Asoka, and the glories of Nalanda.

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The Journey of Xuanzang 5 & 6

Posted on May 20, 2011December 26, 2016 by Dharma Documentaries

In these episodes Xuanzang crosses Central Asia and makes his way down through what is now Afghanistan and eventually on into Kashmir, where he spent the next two years studying.

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The Journey of Xuanzang 3 & 4

Posted on May 13, 2011December 26, 2016 by Dharma Documentaries

In these episodes Xuanzang reaches Gaochang, where he is welcomed by the King. He crosses the dangerous Yanqi and spends a few months in Kuch, before crossing over the Pamir and emerging into Central Asia, with only half his original party left.

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The Journey of Xuanzang 1 & 2

Posted on May 6, 2011December 26, 2016 by Dharma Documentaries

These episodes narrate the birth of Xuanzang and his childhood, his ordination, search for the true Dharma, and his meeting with the Indian monk Prabhakaramitra, and the beginning of his journey to India.

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The Journey of Xuanzang: An Introduction

Posted on May 5, 2011December 27, 2013 by Dharma Documentaries

The Journey of Xuanzang is a lavishly illustrated 12-part biography of the great Chinese traveler and translator Xuanzang, based on Records of the Western World and A Biography of the Tripitaka Master.

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