BUDDHA AS BOOK

Broadcast date: Sunday 20-3-2005 14.00 - 15.00 uur ned. 1
Repeat: Saterday 26-3-2005 09.00 - 10.00 uur ned. 1
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Thousands of monks and nuns are reciting around the Bodhi-tree where the historical Buddha reached enlightenment. We are at the annual World Peace Ceremony in Bodhgaya, India. The pilgrims arrive after harsh journeys from Bhutan, Nepal and Tibet.
During the Festival Buddhist books are distributed, in 2004 an amount of twohundredthousand. They are published and printed in Berkeley, California. From California the books are shipped to India and from there transported by trucks to Bodhgaya.
The distribution of the books is an initiative of Tarthang Tulku Rinpoche. The life-task-project of this lama is to provide the lost Tibetan Buddhist texts to the monasteries in the surroundings of the Himalaya. His three daughters preside over the World Peace Ceremony.

See also: www.tibetan-aid.nl and www.tibetanaidproject.org.

Director: George Schouten
With: Penor Rinpoche, Lama Rahlu, Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche, Wangmo Dixey Gellek, Tsering Gellek, Pema Gellek, Lama Amdo, Lama Palzang, Arnaud Maitland, Jack Petranker, Jamyang Dolma, Sonam Gyalpo
Commissioning editor / executive producer: Babeth M. VanLoo
Camera: Ranjan Palit
Sound: Valson Devassy
Editing: Twan J.da Silva
India production: Laurence B. Uebersfeld
Music: Harry de Wit
2nd unit camera: Leonard Levy, George Schouten
Sound USA: Jack Morris
Narration: Marina van der Heijden
Special thanks to: Tarthang Tulku Rinpoche and volunteers of the Nyingma Institute