TIBETAN
BUDDHISM: CYCLES OF INTERDEPENDENCE (50 minutes, 1983)
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...filmed
in Ladakh in the state of Jammu and Kashmir (India), this film illustrates
the symbiotic relationships between a Tibetan Buddhist lay community
and its related monastery. Lay families contribute grain and other produce
to support the monastery. One of the male or female members of most
families is expected to enter the monastery for life. In return, the
monastery educates the laity's children, its monks enter lay homes to
care for the sick and perform life-cycle rituals, and its monks perform
rituals in the fields to improve the harvest. The film concludes with
the annual winter festival, when families from the entire valley gather
in the monastery courtyard to witness masked and costumed monks invoke
the protector deities to insure the survival of the valley, the people,
and the monastery.
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