USA – Dharma Documentaries

Joan Halifax, A Sense of Urgency

A film looking back over the life of one of the great Zen teachers of the recent past.

A film looking at objects stolen from Thailand and Cambodia and on display in museums in the west.

A film from 2012 about the involvement of Sotherby’s in the sale of ancient Khmer heritage.

The life of Master Sheng Yen, as seen through his own recollections, and those of his friends, devotees and fellow monastics.

A look at how the vipassana movement designed special meditation cells pagodas to enable deeper meditation

A short film about the life and teachings of the great Vietnamese teacher Thich Nhat Hahn

A look at a movement in the US that seeks to revitalise the soil on which we depend for our food.

A look at the revival of the Bhikkhuni monastic order in Theravāda Buddhism in the USA and Thailand.

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

How the environmentalist movements have been compromised and cannot save us from ourselves.