Discovery Channel on Buddism
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Amitabha.
Discovery Channel will be premiering 2 very good programs on Buddhism
this Sunday, 3Sep at 9pm.
http://www.projects-exchange.com/discovery/bornagainbuddhist/delivery/mockup/01.html
hope this goes to as many buddhist as possible -> members, Dhamma family & friends. -
Not fortunate enough to see it myself. Hope that someone can share about it.
Have a lovely weekend! -
Thanks for the info. Almost missed it.
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I will miss it
i dun have SCV Cablevision ... hahahahaha
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So, who is recording for me ah!!
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weeee!!! BEEN wanting to watch this!!
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My pleasure.
Originally posted by Thusness:Thanks for the info. Almost missed it. -
Very interesting.. thanks for sharing
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30 MINS MORE!!!!
get your popcorns ready!!!
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it's 2 hours special...
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Didn't realise this documentary could be so contraversial. But again, Buddha always encouraged us to question and think deeper into what was presented.
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Yar. Its quite interesting.Originally posted by coolbluewater:Didn't realise this documentary could be so contraversial. But again, Buddha always encouraged us to question and think deeper into what was presented.
Especially the secret element in Buddhism, the one that the monk do not want to reveal that one.
Maybe few days is a short time. They should film it for a month or so... -
Summary please because I forgot to watch it.
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It's about Bhutan having too many reincarnated highly respected Rinpoches, that they gotta revamp their law to formalise the recognition procedure.Originally posted by Cenarious:Summary please because I forgot to watch it. -
I do think that if they were to revamp, they could revamp their welfare system, because they recognised that the system is too generous that it attracts parents to push their kids to be the reincarnated people (through self recognition).Originally posted by mhcampboy:Yar. Its quite interesting.
Especially the secret element in Buddhism, the one that the monk do not want to reveal that one.
Maybe few days is a short time. They should film it for a month or so... -
Very interesting film
The first part of the film is about the Buddha Boy (see http://buddhism.sgforums.com/?action=thread_display&thread_id=166368) is known to be practising a Tibetan yogic technique called Tumo (evident from his sweating) which actually allowed him to stay warm in the cold and he could also somehow preserve his energy, metabolism etc, through his meditative absorption and survive without food. The boy learnt meditation from the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism and one of the Sakya rinpoches came to visit him, and observe which meditation technique he is practising and he sat in front of him for an hour. The 'buddha boy' was recorded on video for several days to prove that he indeed could survive without food and water in meditation. Another person they visited not far away was Prahlad Jani, who is able to survive without food at all for 65 years. See: http://www.amazingabilities.com/amaze5a.html, they also interviewed this man and the doctors who studied him and put him under camera observation for days had proven that he indeed could survive without food.
The second part is about the system of recognising past-life Tulkus in Tibetan Buddhism, which is also interesting. The true tulkus are able to remember the details of his past life and is able to point out everything you ask him about his past life accurately. Some of the tulkus are very interesting. However many are sceptical of some of the tulkus, because parents want their children to be recognised as tulkus so they report seeing auspiscious sights and dreams, and it no longer becomes 'rinpoche chooses tulkus' but 'parents choose tulkus', and therefore the government intervened by having stricter control over which tulkus are 'admitted'. -
AAhh yes the TUMO.
Must read more abt that...
Will there be any repeat? -
Dont think so cos this is already the replay. The first time I think this afternoon.Originally posted by mhcampboy:AAhh yes the TUMO.
Must read more abt that...
Will there be any repeat? -
OH!! tats a bummer!Originally posted by An Eternal Now:Dont think so cos this is already the replay. The first time I think this afternoon.
i miss the second part!! the 10pm one!
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It'll be uploaded on TorrentOriginally posted by mhcampboy:OH!! tats a bummer!
i miss the second part!! the 10pm one! 
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More information on the practise of Tummo:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tummo
Tummo (gTum mo in Wylie transliteration, also spelled Tumo, or Tum-mo; Sanskrit caṇḍālī is a Tibetan term for an advanced type of contemplative practice, or meditation. The most common usage of the term is however related to the description of intense sensations of body heat, that are said to be a partial effect of the practice of Tummo-meditation. Tummo is taught as one part of the six yogas of Naropa. Stories and eyewitness accounts abound of yogi practitioners being able to generate sufficient heat to dry wet sheets draped around their naked bodies while sitting outside in the freezing cold, not just once, but multiple times. These observations have also been discussed in medical articles (Ding-E Young and Taylor, 199.
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One of the most famous practitioners of Tummo was perhaps the Tibetan Buddhist saint, Milarepa [1]. The biography of Milarepa is one of the most popular among the Tibetan people (Evans-Wentz, 2001). Modern western witnesses of this practice include the adventurer Alexandra David-Neel (David-Neel, 1971), and Lama Anagarika Govinda (Govinda, 198.
While the practice could be said to have some practical benefit in the frigid climate of Tibet, it cannot be said to be cultivated merely for the sake of keeping warm, but is rather a side-effect of a religiously oriented intensive meditation practice, and is understood to be the outward manifestation of an inward state of religious ecstasy or Yogic Enlightenment. Similar experiences of a mystic fire have also been described among practitioners of other contemplative paths, such as the Sufi Irina Tweedie, and among practitioners of Kundalini Yoga.
An attempt to study the physiological effects of Tummo has been made by Benson and colleagues (Benson et.al, 1982; Cromie, 2002) who studied Indo-Tibetan Yogis in the Himalayas and in India in the 1980s. In the first experiment, in Upper Dharamsala (India), Benson et. al (1982) found that these subjects exhibited the capacity to increase the temperature of their fingers and toes by as much as 8.3°C. In the most recent experiment, which was conducted in Normandy (France), two monks from the Buddhist tradition wore sensors that recorded changes in heat production and metabolism (Cromie, 2002).
It is not considered wise to engage in the practice of Tummo, or any other intense form of meditation, without the supervision of a credible teacher or guide, or without thorough psychological and physiological preparation. Intense, or unsupervised forms of meditation, might sometimes lead to substantial meditation-related problems. See Lukoff, Lu & Turner (199 for more details on these problems. -
Maybe it will be on Channel News Asia some day, I hope.
Just wondering any one recorded it?
How do I get from Torrent? -
hopefully it does!!!Originally posted by An Eternal Now:It'll be uploaded on Torrent
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But maybe not so soon... got to wait.Originally posted by mhcampboy:hopefully it does!!!
i go find now!! -
i remember seeing the ending of the 1st hour show that they were showing the buddha boy had disappeared....
that left me wonder, how did he move himself? like when he wakes up from the meditation & without food & drink for so long, how did he manage to move & hide away & no one else saw.....