The Buddha, A Film by David Grubin

kaiApril 7, 20105min792

ကျုပ်က ကားမောင်းရင်းရေဒီယိုနားထောင်တတ်ပါတယ်။ အဲဒါခုတလော ရေဒီယိုမှာ အသည်းအသန်ကြော်ငြာနေသမို ့ ဘာလည်းဆိုတာ သေချာသိအောင်တင်ပေးလိုက်တာပါ။ မူရင်းသတင်းအောက်မှာဖတ်ပါ။

အသံနဲ့ပြောပေးတဲ့ ရစ်ချက်ဂီရီ ကဗုဒ်ဓဘာသာဝင်တဦးဖြစ်ပါတယ်။ ကြုံလို့ ပြောရရင် ယူအက်စ်က ဆယ်လီဗရိတ်တီတွေ ဒလိုင်လာမားစည်းရုံးမှုနဲ့ ဗုဒ်ဓဘာသာဝင်ကြတာတွေရှိပါတယ်။
ဘောလုံးသမား ဒေးဗစ်ဗက်ခမ်တို့။ အိုင်ပက် ထုတ်တဲ့ ပန်းသီး(အက်ပဲလ်)ဆရာကြီး စတိဗ်ဂျော့ဘ်တု့ိလည်း ဗုဒ်ဓဘာသာဝင်တွေပါပဲ။
တိဗက်ကဆိုတော့ မဟာယာန ဗုဒ်ဓဘာသာပေါ့။ ဟိနယာနတို့၊ ထေရဝါဒတို့ မဟုတ်ပါဘူး..။
မဟာယာန ဗုဒ်ဓဘာသာကို လူတွေ သန်းထောင်ချီ ကိုးကွယ်ကြတာပါ။ တရုတ်ပြည်၊ ဂျပန်ပြည်၊ ထိုင်ဝမ်တု့ိပေါ့..။

The Buddha, A Film by David Grubin

Premiering April 7, 2010 at 8 p.m. EST

This documentary for PBS by award-winning filmmaker David Grubin and narrated by Richard Gere, tells the story of the Buddha’s life, a journey especially relevant to our own bewildering times of violent change and spiritual confusion. It features the work of some of the world’s greatest artists and sculptors, who across two millennia, have depicted the Buddha’s life in art rich in beauty and complexity. Hear insights into the ancient narrative by contemporary Buddhists, including Pulitzer Prize winning poet W.S. Merwin and His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Join the conversation and learn more about meditation, the history of Buddhism, and how to incorporate the Buddha’s teachings on compassion and mindfulness into daily life.

http://www.pbs.org/thebuddha/program/

Full program now available online.

Two-thousand-five-hundred years ago in northern India, Prince Siddhartha left his palace where he had spent twenty-nine years indulging in pleasures. He was determined to comprehend the nature of human suffering. After a grueling spiritual quest that lasted six years, he at last attained enlightenment meditating under a fig tree. He became the Buddha, the “awakened one,” and devoted the rest of his life to teaching the way to enlightenment that he himself had found, giving birth to one of the world’s great religions.

Beginning on Wednesday, April 7, 2010, PBS brings to life Siddhartha and his journey in THE BUDDHA, a two-hour documentary directed by award-winning filmmaker David Grubin.

“Buddhism is growing more and more popular in America,” said David Grubin. “But the Buddha himself remains a mysterious, exotic figure, the founder of a religion in a different key. The Buddha never claimed to be God, or his emissary on earth. He said only that in a world of unavoidable pain and suffering, he had found a serenity which others could find too. In our own bewildering times of violent change and spiritual confusion, the Buddha’s teachings have particular relevance.”

The film, narrated by actor Richard Gere, is undertaken in conjunction with Asia Society Museum, which has organized an exhibition entitled Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art, the first-ever exhibition examining artistic production inspired by sacred sites and the practice of Buddhist pilgrimage in Asia.

Grubin, who directed the critically acclaimed series of films on American presidents including “LBJ,” “FDR” and “Truman” as well as other award-winning series such as THE JEWISH AMERICANS, THE SECRET LIFE OF THE BRAIN and NAPOLEON, tells the story of the Buddha through ancient artwork that depicts the various stages of Siddhartha’s journey, contemporary animation that vividly portrays the legends surrounding the Buddha and contemporary footage of northern India, where many of the religious rituals from the Buddha’s time are still practiced today.

Experts on the Buddha, representing a variety of disciplines, relate the key episodes of the Buddha’s life and reflect on what his journey means for us today. They include His Holiness the Dalai Lama; poets Jane Hirshfield and W.S. Merwin; scholars Robert Thurman, Kevin Trainor and Dr. Max Moerman; astrophysicist Trinh Xuan Thuan; and psychiatrist Mark Epstein, as well as practicing Buddhist monastics.

“By continuing our exploration of the world’s religions, we are delighted to participate in broadening people’s understanding of Buddhism today with David Grubin’s moving portrait of the life of the Buddha,” said John F. Wilson, PBS senior vice president and chief TV programming executive. “This film exposes not just the man, but also his rich teachings, which we hope will spark a larger conversation about religion and spirituality.”

2 comments

  • susunosuki

    April 15, 2010 at 2:32 pm

    ဗုဒ္ဓဘာသာ ဝင်များလာတာတော့ကောင်းပါတယ်
    ကျွန်တော် သိသလောက်ကတာ့
    အရည်အတွက် နဲ့ အရည်အချင်းကတော့ အချိုးမညီနေဆဲပဲ ဗျာ

  • saddyangel.9

    August 13, 2010 at 3:55 pm

    သူများပြောလို ့ဗုဒ`ဓဘာသာဝင်တာထက်ကိုယ်ကိုယ်တိုင်ယုံကြည်သက်ဝင်လို ့
    ဗုဒ~ဓတရားတော်တွေကိုလက်ခံလို ့ဝင်တာအကောင်းဆုံးပါ….အဲ့ဒါဆိုရင်ကြိုဆိုပါတယ်

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