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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.
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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...
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The Buddhist mantra or spell (dharani) is to be chanted, but it was a common practice for the medieval Chinese to illustrate this verbal formula. What visual form could possibly capture the imagined efficacy of a dharani? The matter became more complicated when the Indian mantra met the Chinese spell. Were they visualized or pictured differently? Could they work together? What was the division of labor between them? To make the matter even more complicated,...
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In 2011, Harvard Medical College's Sara Lazar demonstrated that a mere eight weeks of meditation can change brain structure. What advances in understanding the effects of meditation on the brain have been made since then? This conversation follows a short filmed portrait of Sharon Salzberg "On Meditation", part of an on-going series first introduced during last year's Brainwave. Sharon Salzberg, a teacher of meditation for more than 30 years, co-founded...
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How do the Buddhist concepts of non-attachment play out in Meredith Monk's music? Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science Director Joe Loizzo engages with the performance artist on this and many other questions. Monk is one of NPR's 50 Great Voices, and has received a 2012 Doris Duke Artist Award and a 2011 Yoko Ono Lennon Courage Award for the Arts. Joe Loizzo, M.D., Ph. D. is a contemplative psychotherapist, researcher and teacher who integrates...
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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,...
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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),...
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The origins of Buddhist devotional art can be traced to its roots in India, but images and doctrine were transmitted by monks as they travelled with merchant caravans across the dangerous deserts of Central Asia on the ancient Silk Road. The image of the Buddha was transformed and assimilated in China as the foreign religion of Buddhism encountered the rich and potent traditions of the Chinese cosmological past. Susan Beningson explores the introduction...
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"Kim Gutschow has lived for three years among a group of nuns in the Indian Himalayas, collecting their stories and studying their lives. Her book offers the first comprehensive ethnography of Buddhist monastic culture from the perspective of nuns." "Gutschow depicts a gender hierarchy where monks direct and nuns serve in the very fields and houses blessed by monastic rites. Looking at historical social patterns of patronage as well as recent cultural...
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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...
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According to legend the first image of the Buddha was not only drawn from life but was itself alive. It was carved on the order of an Indian king who longed for the Buddha’s presence after the Buddha had left his kingdom. When the Buddha returned the image rose to greet him. Replicas of the miraculous image were produced in India, China, and Japan. This talk explores the transmission of this legend, and the replication of this legendary image in...
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The Tibetan lama Lhanang Rinpoche analyzes the differing conditions that lead to Tibetan Dream Yoga and Lucid Dreaming, with an expert on the latter, Jayne Gackenbach. Jayne Gackenbach was invited to present her work on lucid dreaming to the Dalai Lama at a conference on sleeping, dreaming, and dying in Dharamsala, India in 1992. She is currently a professor at Grant MacEwan University, Alberta, Canada, having received her Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology...
19) One Mind
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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...
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Brainwave Dreams is a multi-episode series presented by the Rubin Museum of Art that examines our understanding of shared human experience. In this episode, cognitive scientist Lawrence Barsalou discusses his latest research with Sharon Salzberg, a compassionate practice teacher. Topics include feelings, emotions, mindfulness, empathy, and meditation.
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