Dalai Lama Renaissance

Dalai Lama Renaissance
Dalai Lama Renaissance
	Producer-Director Khashyar Darvich with the Dalai Lama in India during filming of the documentary.
Directed by	Khashyar Darvich
Produced by	Khashyar Darvich
Narrated by	Harrison Ford
Release date	2007;
Running time	81 minutes
Country	United States

Dalai Lama Renaissance is a 2007 feature-length documentary film, produced and directed by Khashyar Darvich, and narrated by actor Harrison Ford. The film documents the Dalai Lama's meeting with the self-titled "Synthesis" group, made up of 40 Western "renaissance" thinkers who hope to use the meeting to change the world and resolve many of the world's problems. The meeting took place at the Dalai Lama's home in Dharamsala, India in September, 1999.

The film won 12 awards, was the official selection in over 40 international film festivals, and played in cinemas in over 100 cities in the U.S., as well as other countries in the world like Germany, Austria, Switzerland.

It was also released in theaters in Taiwan in June 2009. The film received positive front page Chinese language press in Taiwan. However, The People's Daily presented an article criticizing the film.^[1]

Among the Western thinkers who meet the Dalai Lama are: quantum physicist Fred Alan Wolf, social scientist Jean Houston, and founder of Agape International Spiritual Center church in Los Angeles, Dr. Michael Beckwith.

Through the film the audience sees the clash of egos that soon developed among the members of the group and their assistants, as each member attempts to mold the meeting to fit their own personal expectations.^{[citation needed]} Ultimately they discover they cannot hope to change the world until they undergo a personal transformation. Assisted by the often light-hearted musings of the Dalai Lama, each member comes away uniquely changed by their experience.^{[citation needed]}

The film includes original music by Tibetan musicians.

In 2014 Wakan Films released the Poetic ReVision and Director's Cut of Dalai Lama Renaissance. Entitled Dalai Lama Awakening the film contains over 30 minutes of additional footage and a completely new score.^[2]

References[edit]

^ "Harrison Ford Documentary, Dalai Lama Renaissance, Attacked by China's Communist Party".
^ "DALAI LAMA AWAKENING (A Poetic ReVision) | New Thought Center For Spiritual Living". www.newthoughtcsl.org. Archived from the original on 2016-03-07. Retrieved 2016-03-03.

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[1] "Harrison Ford Documentary, Dalai Lama Renaissance, Attacked by China's Communist Party".

[2] "DALAI LAMA AWAKENING (A Poetic ReVision) | New Thought Center For Spiritual Living". www.newthoughtcsl.org. Archived from the original on 2016-03-07. Retrieved 2016-03-03.

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v t e The 14th Dalai Lama
Books	My Land and My People (1962) Essential Teachings (1974) Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of the Dalai Lama (1991) The World of Tibetan Buddhism (1995) The Art of Happiness (1998) Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the new Millennium (1999) The Power of Buddhism (1999) An Open Heart (2002) The Universe in a Single Atom (2005) How to See Yourself As You Really Are (2006) My Spiritual Autobiography (2009) Beyond Religion: Ethics for a Whole World (2011) The Book of Joy (2016)
Organized vision	Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness the Dalai Lama Library of Tibetan Works and Archives Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education
Family	Diki Tsering (mother) Thubten Jigme Norbu (brother) Jetsun Pema (sister)
Related	Thupten Jinpa (translator) Recognition Travels Seven Years in Tibet (1997 film) Kundun (1997 film) What Remains of Us (2004 documentary) 10 Questions for the Dalai Lama (2006 documentary) Dalai Lama Renaissance (2007 documentary) The Sun Behind the Clouds (2010 documentary Dalai Lama Awakening (2014 documentary) Compassion in Action (2014 documentary)