The Buddha. I'm looking for documentaries on Buddhism and Hinduism religions. Any ideas. The Tibetan Book of the Dead: A Way of Life. Death is real, it comes without warning and it cannot be escaped.
An ancient source of strength and guidance, The Tibetan Book of the Dead remains an essential teaching in the Buddhist cultures of the Himalayas. Narrated by Leonard Cohen, this enlightening two-part series explores the sacred text and boldly visualizes the afterlife according to its profound wisdom. Tibet: A Buddhist Trilogy. The Story of Lord Buddha. The Buddha, the founder of the great religious philosophy of Buddhism, lived in North India over two thousand and five hundred years ago and was known as Siddhattha (Siddhartha = one whose purpose has been achieved).
Gotama (Sanskrit= Gautama) was his family name. His father, King Suddhodana, ruled over the land of the Sakyans at Kapilavatthu on the Nepalese frontier. His queen was Mahamaya, a princess of the Koliyas. On a full-moon day of May, when the trees were laden with leaf, flower and fruit, and man, bird and beast were in joyous mood, Queen Mahamaya was travelling in state from Kapilavatthu to Devadaha, her parental home, according to the custom of the times, to give birth to her child.
But that was not to be, for halfway between the two cities, in the Lumbini grove, under the shade of a flowering Sal tree, she brought forth a son. Buddhism DVDs - Documentary Movies at Movies Unlimited. Walk With The Master: Sites of the Buddha. Journey into Buddhism. The Life of Buddha.