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The Buddha /

Bstan-亩n-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: BUDD601 | PBSLanguage: English Original language: English Subtitle language: English, Chinese Publisher: [Alexandria, Virginia] : PBS : , [2010]Distributor: [Alexandria, Virginia] : Distributed by PBS Distribution. Description: 1 videodisc (approximately 115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 9781608831951
  • 1608831957
Other title:
  • Title on container: The Buddha : the story of Siddhartha
  • Story of Siddhartha
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 294.3/63 22
  • 294.3 14
LOC classification:
  • BQ882 .B795 2010
NLM classification:
  • NF BL 2010 B833
Contents:
Birth -- Siddhartha -- Leaving the palace -- Reincarnation -- Asceticism -- A childhood memory -- Enlightenment -- The first teaching -- The four noble truths -- The sangha -- Meditation -- Teachings -- Miracles -- Death of the Buddha.
Production credits:
  • Editor, Deborah Peretz ; music, Michael Bacon ; cinematographer, James Callanan ; animators, Brian O'Connell, Richard O'Connor.
Narrators, Richard Gere, Blair Brown ; participants, W.S. Merwin, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Mark Epstein, Robert Tenzin Thurman.Summary: Recounts the life of the Buddha and presents the tenets of Buddhism.
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Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room DVD-01864 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16050164967

"Produced in conjunction with the exhibition, Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art, organized by Asia Society Museum, New York."

Special features: Interview with David Grubin; Interview with His Holiness the Dalai Lama; Making animation for The Buddha; Buddhist pilgrimage sites.

Birth -- Siddhartha -- Leaving the palace -- Reincarnation -- Asceticism -- A childhood memory -- Enlightenment -- The first teaching -- The four noble truths -- The sangha -- Meditation -- Teachings -- Miracles -- Death of the Buddha.

Originally produced as a documentary for PBS in 2010.

TV parental guidelines rating: Not rated.

Board of Film Censors, Singapore: PG.

DVD; NTSC, Region 1; 16:9 widescreen presentation; stereo.

In English with optional subtitles in English and Chinese Mandarin (traditional and simplified); described video; closed-captioned.

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