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Tibet: On the Edge of Change - Travel Video.  Questar Video.

When Frank Capra made his classic "Lost Horizon" in 1937, he depicted the strange land of Shangri-La where health, peace, and longevity reigned.  Tibet was that mystical land.  Three-time Emmy Award-winning cinematographer William Bacon brings back an up-to-date look at this hidden land of two million who occupy an area twice the size of Texas.  Known as "the roof of the world," Tibet has an average elevation of 16,000 feet above sea level. Virtually surrounded by mountains, including the Himalayas, Tibet is bordered by India, Bhutan, Nepal, and Burma.  But its giant northern neighbor China is posing a threat to Tibet's traditional, protected ways.  The expulsion of the Dalai Lama (spiritual leader to millions of Buddhists worldwide) has stirred American curiosity about the Tibetan people and the many changes being brought about by the occupying Chinese.  See the mystical capital city of Lhasa.  Enter the sanctity of a Tibetan monastery as the monks engage in the ancient art of religious debate and chant their haunting mantras.  The video captures an inside look at Tibet's past, present, and its very uncertain future.  55 minutes

  "Engrossing documentary...often mesmerizing program" - Chicago Tribune

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$24.95
VHS
NTSC

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Inside Tibet - Travel Video.  Mystic Fire Video.
 

This is the first of a two part series that follows an international team across the Himalayas to reveal a close up view of people and history of the most beautiful and remote region on earth.  The film contains rare archival footage of ceremonies and ritual public festivals at the Potala, the Dalai Lama's summer palace and the Jokang temple recorded before China's invasion of Tibet.
   We witness the siege of Ganden Monastery as well as recent footage, shot under the constraints of government approval, showing the Tibetans striving to rebuild their homes and temples in the wake of China's brutal repression. 
    60 minutes © 2001

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$29.95
VHS
NTSC

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Ancient Tibetan Kingdoms - Travel Video.  World Almanac Video.
 

  Come explore the ancient kingdom of Tibet, seat of wisdom and mysticism high up in the Himalayas.  The independent nation of Tibet no longer exists, but the legacy of ancient Tibetan culture--with its evocative art, shrines, rituals, prayers, and dances-can still be found in the nations of India, Nepal, and Bhutan.  c1999.
   30 minutes

WALM

$24.95
VHS
NTSC

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Illuminated Tibet: An Introduction To Tibetan Culture - CD  ROM.  Mystic Fire.
This multimedia learning package offers an accessible and easy to use introduction to the rich tradition of Tibet.  Dr. Thurman is one of the most prominent Tibetan scholars in America and a close associate of His Holiness the XIVth Dalai Lama.  His narration guides the user through the Kalachakra initiation which is central to the CD.  He has written and edited all chapter text. 
  This CD is an essential learning companion to anyone interested in exploring the Tibetan religion, society and culture.  It is an easy-to-use product which runs on PC or Mac and contains hundreds of photographs of modern and pre-invasion Tibet as well as photos of Tibetans in exile, 8 chapters of informative text, a slide show, and a glossary with over 240 entries.

    "A former Tibetan Monk, co-founder of Tibet house and current holder of Columbia University¹s first endowed chair in Buddhist Studies, Dr. Thurman brings special insight and a broad-based background to crafting this interactive tool that immerses the user in the sights, sounds, symbols, culture, art, people, and religion of Tibet. 

   The focal attraction is the First Slide Show, a photographic journey to the ancient Tabo monastery, where monks prepare for and receive the Kalachakra Initiation from His Holiness the Dalai Lama.  Intimate photographs are interspersed with breathtaking Himalayan mountainscapes and complemented by narratives, captions, music, and mantras.  With a click on an icon, users can access the eight chapters of informative text with links to the glossary, and enlarge the miniature photographs for closer inspection.  Chapter titles describe content: "Land of the Snows"; "People of Tibet"; "Religious and Monastic Life"; History"; Religion and Philosophy"; "Evolutionary Art of Tibet"; :Lamas and bodhisattvas"; and "Tantras, Mandalas, and Buddhalands."  Icons on the main menu screen link viewers to appendices with additional reading and an extensive glossary.

   The Second Slide Show is a pictorial review of all the images on the CD. This inspiring documentary exquisitely captures Dr. Thurman¹s love for the living culture of Tibet he seeks to preserve.  Easy to run on either Mac or PC, it makes exceptional use of the medium.

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$39.95
CD ROM

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5.

Himalaya.  Kino Studio.
This is an age old tale set in an ancient village in the Himalaya. The old village chief insists on waiting to take a yak caravan over the mountain on the specific date given by the oracles.  A young whippersnapper, Karma, who would like to take over the Chief's role sooner rather than later, insists on leaving immediately before the weather turns foul.  Both are stubborn, insistent and unmoving in their decision of when to leave.  Both can't be correct or can they?
   This is a contest between each man and the mountain and everyone wins, because "there are no accidents".  A breathtaking film cinematically and one that echoes the spirituality of the Tibetan people.  Bruno Coulais' soundtrack for this film is absolutely perfect.  Eric Valli's direction is amazing considering the cast are not actors.  This movie will stay with you for a very long time.

   This is a movie, but it also pays very close attention to the life of the Dolpo-pa people, and as such, it not only presents a story, but captures a "culture in time" that few of us will ever experience.  We may walk through these people's villages, or hire them to carry our gear, but we never can participate in their personal lives.  Eric Valli, whatever his ulterior motives in creating this film (if any), had to have been driven by a love of the people and mountains to put this together.  In an era of globalization and the loss of cultures and languages every year, films of this kind have great anthropological and human geographical value.  It's too bad that more Eric Valli's don't exist to preserve our vanishing human heritage.  When presented as a story, it can reach a much wider audience than a standard documentary; the story pulls the viewer into the lifestyle.

KINO

$24.95
VHS
NTSC

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Tantra of Gyuto - Travel Video.  Mystic Fire.

Monks of the Gyuto Tantric College perform sacred Tibetan Buddhist ceremonies in a style of chanting that expresses the ecstasy of true meditation.  Through ritual and mantric power and by their sheer inherent potency and disciplined execution, these concentrated essential energies bring about direct spiritual phenomena.  The rituals, introduced by the Dalai Lama, are interwoven with powerful images of Tibetan sacred art.

   The film is prefaced by an account of Tibetan history that incorporates archival footage from the 1920s until the Chinese takeover of Tibet in 1959.  52 minutes.  c2001

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$29.95
VHS
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Tibet: The End of Time - Travel Video.  Time-Life.

Time-Life journeys to Tibet as this real-life Shangri-La collides head-on with the realities of the modern age. Traversing the highest mountain passes on earth, enter a kingdom so remote it was virtually unknown to outsiders until recent times. Discover how, as the world's last surviving theocracy,
   Tibetans voluntarily abandoned their warlike past to worship their ruler, the Dalai Lama, as the living manifestation of God on earth.
   36 minutes

TIME

$29.95
VHS
NTSC

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