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©2010
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1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
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"Produced in conjunction with the exhibition, Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art, organized by Asia Society Museum, New York."
Two and a half millennia ago, a new religion was born in India, generated from the ideas of the Buddha, a mysterious Indian sage who gained enlightenment while he sat under a large, shapely fig tree. The Buddha never claimed to be God or his emissary on earth, only that he was a human being who had found a kind of serenity that others could find, too. This documentary tells the story of his life, a journey especially relevant in our own times
Originally broadcast on PBS April 7, 2010
Special features: interview with David Grubin; interview with His Holiness the Dalai Lama; making animation for The Buddha; Buddhist pilgrimage sites
Cinematographer, James Callanan ; editor, Deborah Peretz ; music, Michael Bacon ; narrators, Richard Gere, with Blair Brown
Rating: Not rated
DVD, NTSC; widescreen presentation ; stereo
In English with optional English or traditional or simplified Chinese Mandarin subtitles and optional video description; closed-captioned in English