The Buddha : the story of Siddhartha /

The Buddha : the story of Siddhartha /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	[Alexandria, Va.?] : PBS : Distributed by PBS Distribution, c2010.
Description:	1 videodisc (ca. 120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language:	English
Subject:	Gautama Buddha. Gautama Buddha. Buddhists -- India. Buddhism. Buddhism. Buddhists. India. Historical television programs. Biographical television programs. Documentary television programs. Nonfiction television programs. Religious television programs. Video recordings for people with visual disabilities. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Format:	DVD Video
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9271883

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Other authors / contributors:	Grubin, David. Bowers, Anna. Gere, Richard, 1949- Brown, Blair. Merwin, W. S. (William Stanley), 1927- Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935- Epstein, Mark, 1953- Thurman, Robert A. F. Asia Society. Museum. David Grubin Productions. Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.) PBS Distribution (Firm) Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art (Exhibition)
ISBN:	9781608831951 1608831957
Notes:	Documentary. Title from container. "Produced in conjunction with the exhibition, Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art, organized by Asia Society Museum, New York." Cinematographer, James Callanan ; editor, Deborah Peretz ; music, Michael Bacon. Narrators, Richard Gere, Blair Brown ; participants, W.S. Merwin, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Mark Epstein, Robert Tenzin Thurman. DVD; NTSC, Region 1; widescreen presentation; stereo. In English with optional subtitles in English and Chinese Mandarin (traditional and simplified); described video; closed-captioned.
Summary:	Recounts the life of the Buddha and presents the tenets of Buddhism.
Target Audience:	TV parental guidelines rating: Not rated. Board of Film Censors, Singapore: PG.
Standard no.:	841887011983
Publisher's no.:	BUDD601 PBS

Table of Contents:

Birth
Siddhartha
Leaving the palace
Reincarnation
Asceticism
A childhood memory
Enlightenment
The first teaching
The four noble truths
The sangha
Meditation
Teachings
Miracles
Death of the Buddha.
Special features: Interview with David Grubin
Interview with His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Making animation for The Buddha
Buddhist pilgrimage sites.