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Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A towering figure in the development of experimental and post-war electronic art music, Pauline Oliveros explores the origin of sound with neuroscientist Seth Horowitz. Oliveros is the founder of "Deep Listening,"which comes from her childhood fascination with sounds and from her works in concert music with composition, improvisation, and electro-acoustics. She describes “Deep Listening” as a way of listening in every possible way to everything...
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
BAFTA-winning film-maker Mobeen Azhar travels to Indonesia, home to the world’s largest Muslim population, to investigate how this nation’s historic religious tolerance is being challenged by hardline Islamic groups demanding that issues of faith be placed at the center of Indonesian politics. Although Indonesia has an overwhelming Muslim majority, constitutionally it has remained a secular state. All this could be about to change as conservative...
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Robert D. Mowry introduces the development of Korean Buddhist art from its formative phase in the late Three Kingdoms (57 bce–668 ce) and Unified Silla (668–935) periods through its maturation in the Goryeo dynasty (918–1392), emphasizing architecture and sculpture in the earlier periods and paintings and illuminated sutras in the later periods. Due to the ascendance of Neo-Confucianism, Buddhism fell into decline during the Joseon dynasty (1392–1910),...
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
This program captures the excitement and the huge crowds which gathered when the Dalai Lama visited the U.K. in May 1999. Highlights include excerpts from "Lo-Jong: Transforming the Mind" teachings at Wembley Conference Centre and the "Ethics for the New Millennium" talk at the Royal Albert Hall. Also included are excerpts from the 10th Lambeth Interfaith Lecture given by the Dalai Lama at Lambeth Palace, extracts from the press conference at Westminster,...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Tibetan scholar Hubert Decleer has been with the School for International Training's Tibetan and Himalayan study abroad program since 1987. He explores the history of the discovery process, the recognition and enthronement of reincarnated masters long believed to be purely "a Tibetan political innovation," and the "invention of a tradition." The Dalai Lama has mentioned a Hindu precedent in the life of Dharmakirti and a Buddhist, one exemplified by...
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Likened by Buddhists to the Vatican City, Ganden is considered the most influential monastery of Tibetan Buddhism. Monks lived in the monastery for more than 500 years before a brutal invasion drove them to India. Ganden: A Joyful Land is a look at the lives and remembrances of the remaining generation of monks to have studied at the monastery in Tibet where the Dalai Lama’s lineage began.
11) Brainwave Dreams
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Writer Siri Hustvedt is a migraine sufferer and will often experience aphasic dreams. As she enters the slumbering state she will have hallucinations. As she says, these "are anomalies, no doubt, tics of the nervous system that affect some, not all, but they could well help explain more general human qualities—who we are, what we feel, and how we see. I suspect that everyone has a few Lilliputians in hiding. It may be just a question of whether...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
With the arrival in power of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma discovered a newfound freedom. But the country is facing a the rise of a fierce nationalist sentiment targeting the Muslim community of the Rohingya people, and spread by a group of extremist Buddhist monks. What role do the 500,000 monks really play in this country where feelings run high? Is Burmese Buddhism a racist and nationalistic movement? What lies behind the monastic orders? Three monks...
14) One Mind
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Chinese
Description
One Mind is a rare cinematic portrait of life inside one of China’s most austere and revered Zen communities. The monks at Zhenru Chan Monastery continue to uphold a strict monastic code established over 1,400 years ago by the founding patriarchs of Zen in China. In harmony with the land that sustains them, the monks operate an organic farm, grow tea, and harvest bamboo to fuel their kitchen fires. At the heart of this community, a group of cloistered...
15) Manji
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Manji follows Reverend TK Nakagaki, a Japanese Buddhist priest living in America for the past thirty-five years, as he travels the globe on a mission: to reclaim the swastika as a symbol of peace.
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Language
English
Description
In her book Rapt, author Winifred Gallagher grapples with a number of provocative questions, including "Can we train our focus?" and "What's different about the way creative people pay attention?" Here she talks to performance artist Laurie Anderson and SUNY Downstate neurophysiologist André Fenton about how the quality of our lives depends largely on what we choose to pay attention to.
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Later in January, art-house luminary Isabella Rossellini will appear at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in her one-woman show, adapted from the celebrated Sundance Channel series about the surprisingly kinky and confounding mating rituals of insects and marine life Green Porno. With day-glo costumes and paper puppets, Rossellini channels a host of reproductive oddities. Part nature documentary, part DIY cartoon, Green Porno is a cheeky, delightful zoology...
19) Vital Signs
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Language
English
Description
Researchers begina slow and cumbersome descent, deep into the Grootboom Cave, hindered by head-to-toe protective suits, but those suits are the only things standing between safety and exposure. Thousands of bats live inside this cave, and not far from the cave's entrance is the city of Johannesburg, South Africa, a heavily populated area. Any number of these bats could potentially be carrying a deadly pathogen. Known as zoonotic, these are diseases...
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