This video explores Pure Land Buddhism, a major branch of Mahayana Buddhism often misunderstood in the West. It presents the concept of countless purified realms—pure lands—inhabited by cosmic ...

Builds a loose narrative around a long distance conversation between a young TibetanAmerican man and his Tibetanborn mother The character wanders through a natural landscape resembling the exiled ...

In this program based on the book of the same name by Ishimure Michiko, Kitabayashi Tanie plays “Goze,” a blind wandering performer who drifts around the stricken region of Minamata in the ...

Featuring immersive imagery of the Buddhist Pure Land, “Ojodo” is shown in a new 360-degree CGI theater at Senjuji temple’s Rokkakudo hall in Tsu, the capital of Mie Prefecture, on Jan. 11 ...