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Tibetan Buddhism: Cycles of Interdependence

• 1983 ----- color ----- 59 min ----- vhs
• Illustrates the symbiotic relationships that exist between a Tibetan Buddhist lay community and its related monastery. Throughout the year the families of the village and the members of the monastery exchange duties and rituals which benefit each group. The monastery periodically performs religiously meritorious activities that gain spiritual benefit for the entire community. 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 for another year. (Filmed in Ladakh in the state of Jammu and Kashmir (India))
• Topics: (Anthropology: Cultural, Ethnomusicology, Religions: Eastern)

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