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Ani Choying Drolma – Four Songs

Posted on March 19, 2011October 20, 2013 by Dharma Documentaries

Four wonderful and heartfelt songs sung by the Tibetan Nun Ani Choying Drolma. The first is a music video recorded at the Swayambhunath Temple in Kathmandu, Nepal. The others were recorded live in Germany.

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Tibet on the Edge of Change

Posted on March 18, 2011December 5, 2020 by Dharma Documentaries

A romantic view of Tibetan peasant life is offered in this 1994 documentary, which focuses on the ordinary day-to-day life of the people, who are trying to eke out a living on the plateau.

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The Tibetan Book of the Dead: The Great Liberation

Posted on January 28, 2011February 2, 2020 by Dharma Documentaries

The second of these films follows Lama Pema Chodan and his 13 year old novice Thubten Tsering as they attend to the ceremonies following the death of a young family man in Ladakh.

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The Tibetan Book of the Dead: A Way of Life

Posted on January 21, 2011September 26, 2019 by Dharma Documentaries

This is the first of a sensitive two-part documentary showing how death and dying is contextualised in the traditional Buddhist culture in Ladakh.

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The Lost World of Tibet

Posted on January 14, 2011December 5, 2020 by Dharma Documentaries

This is a wonderful collection of colour and black and white film taken in Tibet during the last years of its independence, as it has been preserved by the British Film Institute.

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The Silk Road Series 6/16: Across The Taklamakan Desert

Posted on November 19, 2010October 14, 2018 by Dharma Documentaries

This episode sees the expedition crossing the southern route of the Taklamakan desert, which in the Uighar language means the place from which no living thing returns.

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The Silk Road Series 4/16: The Dark Castle

Posted on November 5, 2010October 14, 2018 by Dharma Documentaries

The Dark Castle of the title refers to the fortress at Khara-khoto, which was a main center of the Tangut state. The Castle has legendary status amongst the local people, who fear to go there, but the crew find some guides and trek across the desert on camels.

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The Silk Road Series 3/16: The Art-gallery in the Desert

Posted on October 29, 2010June 28, 2020 by Dharma Documentaries

This episode focuses on the magnificent Mo-gao caves at Dun-huang in the Gobi desert. In this complex, there are 500 caves and over 3,000 statues and murals. It is counted as the longest art gallery in the world.

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The Silk Road Series 2/16: A Thousand Kilometres Beyond The Yellow River

Posted on October 22, 2010October 14, 2018 by Dharma Documentaries

This episode sees the expedition crossing first the Yellow River, with its goat-skin rafts and giant waterwheels, and entering the Gobi desert along the He-xi corridor, where it visits some of the main citadels along the route.

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The Story of the Weeping Camel

Posted on June 25, 2010March 17, 2020 by Dharma Documentaries

The plot is about a family of nomadic shepherds in the Gobi desert trying to save the life of a rare white bactrian camel calf after it was rejected by its mother.

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