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Crazy Wisdom @ VIFF
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Review from The Province: http://www.theprovince.com/entertainment/VIFF+Waking+love/5533449/story.html The movie “Crazy Wisdom: The Life and Times of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche” is also a potential candidate for entry in the Arclight Documentary Film Festival, if enough of the public “Like” it on the Arclight YouTube page: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzZRiE7C_Ac
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Focus on Buddhism @ Vancouver Int’l Film Fest
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This year’s Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) will feature four films on Buddhism, October 6-18, 2011. Here’s a link to the Buddhist Feature on the site: http://www.viff.org/e-blasts/viff-2011/outreach/Buddhism.htm
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Charles Prebish podcast on “New Books in Buddhist Studies”
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Charles Prebish is among the most prominent scholars of American Buddhism. He has been a pioneer in studying the forms that Buddhist tradition has taken in the United States. Now retired, he has written this unusual new book, An American Buddhist Life: Memoirs of a Modern Dharma Pioneer (Sumeru Press, 2011). The book tells the story of Prebish’s... Read more »
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Sister Elaine MacInnes: Catholic nun, Zen master, prison activist, in TV documentary
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Victoria’s CHEK TV will air the award-winning 2005 documentary, The Fires That Burn, as part of their Docs from the Edge series. The film documents the life of Sister Elaine MacInnes, age 87, her journey, and her current activities with her Freeing The Human Spirit Foundation, that aims to promote spiritual understanding and bring meditation and... Read more »
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Three Buddhist TV shows by David Cherniack on ONE network
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Can you find enlightenment in the modern Western World? Dharma Rising airs on The Brand New ONE starting October 17 By the 1960’s Buddhism had arrived in the West to stay. Challenges of modernity were always its nemesis, but now that Buddhism is attracting unprecedented numbers, how is it adapting to modern materialism? This three part documentary... Read more »
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