Showing posts with label buddhism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label buddhism. Show all posts
Sunday, 23 February 2025

To learn, one has to listen.

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Seven Years in Tibet (1997) Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud (Based on Heinrich Harrer's book with the same name) Similar to the internment...
Saturday, 17 December 2022

Payback time?

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Valley of Flowers (2006) Director: Pan Nalin In my books, the way to put someone on the right track when he has gone wayward is to make him ...
Sunday, 13 November 2022

What is more important: satisfying one thousand desires or conquering just one?

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Samsara (in Tibetian and Ladhaki languages; 2002) Directed, Written by: Pan Nalin I remember an episode when my house cat was engaged in a s...
Sunday, 17 May 2020

A journey of conquest of a different kind

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Xuanzang (大唐玄奘, Mandarin, Hindi; 2016) Hsuan Tsang or Xuanzang is mentioned in early historical scriptures as of one the first person wh...
Sunday, 28 January 2018

Do you want to leave your legacy?

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Historical Monument of Kalinga at Dhauli. The ferocious Emperor Asoka was moved by the crimson hue of the river water nearby. Only...
Monday, 14 August 2017

Don't rest on your laurels!

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There used to be a time in our childhood when we used to look forward to religious festivities. Besides being a holiday, it was also a ti...
Sunday, 16 October 2016

Introspection is king!

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Genius of the Ancient World (BBC Four) #1. Buddha Centuries before modern man came up with the concept of cognitive psychology and self-...
Saturday, 23 April 2016

Unchain my soul?

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Some say that the mere fact that we are born on Earth is torture. It is a punishment of sorts. All the aches, the physical pains, the em...