Buddhism Movies
- 2008
Sunrise/Sunset. Dalai Lama XIV
Sunrise/Sunset. Dalai Lama XIV82008HD
The daily life of the Dalai Lama is brought home with remarkable intimacy in SUNRISE/SUNSET. Granted total access to His Holiness for 24 hours, this...
- 1979
Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds
Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds6.51979HD
After World War II a group of young writers, outsiders and friends who were disillusioned by the pursuit of the American dream met in New York City....
- 2024
Satori
Satori02024HD
- 1994
Living Buddha
Living Buddha81994HD
- 1992
The Reincarnation of Khensur Rinpoche
The Reincarnation of Khensur Rinpoche01992HD
Choenzey is a 47-year-old monk living in a Tibetan refugee monastery in South India. His spiritual master, Khensur Rinpoche, a revered high lama, has...
- 2020
Period: A State of Purity
Period: A State of Purity02020HD
Tibetan Buddhist nuns from the Thupten Choling monastery in the Himalayan foothills discuss their mentruation practices.
- 2010
Pink Coffins
Pink Coffins62010HD
In a temple in Thailand, an order of Buddhist monks are performing a ceremony for people who headed there to get re-incarnated. There, we meet Tarn,...
- 2013
Papilio Buddha
Papilio Buddha6.62013HD
A band of displaced untouchables in Western Ghats of India embrace Buddhism in order to escape from caste oppression.
- 1918
Japan in Feast
Japan in Feast6.51918HD
An actuality film showing a Buddhist festival in Kyoto. The procession includes Buddhist monks, geishas, and others dressed coordinately to the...
- 2024
Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear
Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear02024HD
Jason Lu, a Hongkonger living in LA, works a shift at a restaurant and finds himself in a bizarre situation, and facing a deadly problem.
- 2003
Angulimala
Angulimala02003HD
Arhingsaka was born in India to a noble family. Despite his noble birth, his horoscope showed to be born under the sign of thieves, and thus was...
- 2012
Souls of Zen: Ancestors and Agency in Contemporary Japanese Temple Buddhism
Souls of Zen: Ancestors and Agency in Contemporary Japanese Temple Buddhism82012HD
The Japanese population’s reaction to the catastrophe of March 2011 has been described as “stoic” by the Western media. The...
- 2021
Seek nothing, Just sit: Life in a Zen Monastery
Seek nothing, Just sit: Life in a Zen Monastery02021HD
A year of zen practice at Antaiji Temple in Japan. Many non-Japanese gather at this Soto school zen temple to do zazen 1,800 hours per year and live...
- 1998
The Jew in the Lotus
The Jew in the Lotus01998HD
Tells how Rodger Kamenetz, author of the best-selling 1994 book by the same title, found his way back to Judaism - the tradition of his birth.
- 2011
The Light of the Golden Sun
The Light of the Golden Sun02011HD
More than 50 years ago, the Tibetan Bon Buddhist tradition was driven from its refuge deep within the Himalayas. This is the story of the long and...
- 2010
Anyang, Paradise City
Anyang, Paradise City02010HD
Set in Anyang, South Korea, crew members for an upcoming documentary research the devastating fire that took occurred in a factory prior to the 1988...
- 1972
Refuge
Refuge01972HD
A documentary about the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order in London.
- 1996
Our life is like our breath
Our life is like our breath01996HD
A film following a western monk and his lifestyle in the Thai forest monastery, Wat Pa Nanachat, in the 1990s.
- 2025
The Dalai Lama's Gift
The Dalai Lama's Gift02025HD
In 1981, a Buddhist monk teaching at the University of Madison, Wisconsin, made the bold request of the Dalai Lama to come and perform a rare ritual,...
- 2019
Buddha in Africa
Buddha in Africa7.42019HD
Enock is six years old when he is taken to a Confucian Buddhist orphanage and given the Chinese name Alu. He becomes extremely skilled in acrobatics....