Buddhism.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Bloomsbury Press.

Series:

Art of Faith

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Buddhism--Architecture.

Buddhism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file)

Distribution:

London: Bloomsbury Video. Bloomsbury Publishing. 2022.

Other Title:

Bloomsbury Video Library.

Place of Publication:

Illuminations TV Ltd. 2008.

Biography/History:

Presented by John McCarthy John Patrick McCarthy CBE is a British journalist, writer and broadcaster, and one of the hostages in the Lebanon hostage crisis. McCarthy was the United Kingdom's longest-held hostage in Lebanon, where he was a prisoner for more than five years. Production, Anu Gopal, Yoni Smith; Writer and Producer, John Wyver; Director of Photography, Ian Serfontein; Editors, Jon Pinsky, Holly Lubbock .

Summary:

Buddhism is a family of beliefs, derived from the teachings of Buddha who died around 400 BCE. The emperor Ashoka Maurya (who r.272-231BC) was responsible for the first large-scale stone art in India and he also redistributed the Buddha's relics among (supposedly) 84,000 simple stupas (or solid memorial mounds containing relics) across his empire. It is from this act that Buddhist architecture and art springs. In addition to offering an introduction to Buddhism, the documentary visits many locations including the Amaravati Monastery in Hemel Hempstead, England; the Great Stupa, Sanchi in Madhya Pradesh, India; an early Buddhist monastery carved out of rock in the Caves at Ajanta in Maharashtra, India; Borobudur in Central Java, Indonesia; the largest wooden building in the world that houses a colossal bronze statue of the Buddha in Nara, Japan; the Puning Temple in Chengde, China; and Komyo-ji Temple in Shikoku, Japan. .

Credits:

Director, Linda Zuck ; screenwriter, John Wyver, John McCarthy.

ISBN:

9781350918108

OCLC:

1356503406

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.