[Buddha-l] vehicles for an admittedly superficial examination of some fundamental Buddhist principles

[Gary Gach]

>a relatively accessible film that could serve as a vehicle for an 
admittedly superficial examination of 
>some fundamental Buddhist principles.

Bertolucci's LITTLE BUDDHA was expected to be the very item; but I've heard 
it said that problems with the actor playing the Buddha prevented scripted 
scenes from reaching the film. That said, it might just do, for your 
purposes, I don't know. It gets crosscut with a contemporary Vajrayana 
thread. (I've just seen TOKYO STORIES for the 3rd time in my life -- spacing 
it by intervals of decades -- and can't see anything NOT Buddhist in the 
film, but then Prof Robert Sharf absolutely disagrees with me: so maybe 
everyone sees a different film?)

My survey of "Buddhist" film(s) is online: Mind
Mirror<http://awakening.to/poparts.html#movies>,
[http://awakening.to/poparts.html#movies] an excerpt from a title to 
possibly refer your class to, my 'admittedly superficial' Complete Idiot's 
Guide to Understanding Buddhism (whose chapter on Interfaith, which I 
believe was your substantive theme, yields a portal of online
resources: Different
Travel Agents, Same Destination? Other
Paths.<http://awakening.to/interfaith.html>[
http://awakening.to/interfaith.html]); now in a second edition (teachers of 
introductory surveys, please email me). Please forgive me if I've already 
commited this unBuddhist act of 'self'-promotion here, before; I can't 
remember.

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Gary.Gach at Gmail.com http://word.to
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