Paraula clau Buddhism

Pequín, 1908. Pu Yi, un nen de tres anys, és designat emperador i no podrà sortir de la ciutat prohibida on viurà rodejat d'una cort sumptuosa. Pu Yi té un preceptor, l'escocès Reginald Johnston, que arriba a ser el seu millor amic. El 1922 Pu Yi es casa amb Wang Jung i agafa una concubina. Al cap de dos anys, Beny Yu Hsiang pren el poder i expulsa Pu Yi de la ciutat prohibida. El 1932 accepta ser l'emperador titella de Manxukuo, ex-Manxúria, envaïda pels japonesos. Al final de la guerra és jutjat com a criminal de guerra.

Kham és un jove que viu feliç a la Tailàndia rural. Però aquesta tranquil·la vida donarà un tomb radical quan una banda mafiosa amb base a Austràlia roba els seus elefants traslladant-los a Sidney. Els dos elefants són més que uns simples animals per en Kham i el seu pare; són dos membres més de la família que han estat preparats durant anys per regalar-los-hi com a signe de devoció al rei de Tailàndia. L'única possibilitat de recuperar als animals serà endinsar-se en una terra desconeguda i lluitar contra la banda mafiosa.

Heinrich Harrer és un muntanyenc austríac que viu l'ascens del nazisme i participa, amb el seu company Peter Aufschnaiter, en una ascensió a l'Himàlaia el 1939. Això els dóna ocasió de conèixer el Tibet. Visiten la ciutat sagrada de Lhasa, on són els únics estrangers, fan amistat amb el Dalai Lama i viuen l'escalada del conflicte entre el Tibet i la Xina.

Dos mil·lennistes de Los Angeles d'orígens dispars s'enamoren i fan front a la prova definitiva: conèixer els seus pares respectius. El xoc cultural està servit!

L'oncle Boonmee, agricultor tailandès dedicat a l'apicultura, pateix una greu insuficiència renal crònica. Conscient que li resta poc temps de vida, reuneix al seu voltant els familiars més propers: la seva cunyada Jen i el seu nebot Tong. L'acompanya també Jaai, immigrant provinent de Laos que ha esdevingut el seu home de confiança i infermer.

“Camina amb mi” s'endinsa en la comunitat budista de Plum Village, França, en la qual els seus integrants renuncien a totes les seves pertinences amb un propòsit comú: transformar el sofriment i posar en pràctica l'art del “mindfulness” sota la tutela de Thich Nhat Hanh, mestre zen i activista per la pau mundialment famós.

Els tibetans es refereixen al Dalai Lama com a "Kundun", que significa "La Presència". Es va veure obligat a escapar de la seva llar natal, el Tibet, quan la Xina comunista va envair i va fer complir un règim opressiu sobre la nació pacífica. El Dalai Lama es va escapar a l'Índia el 1959 i des d'aleshores viu a l'exili a Dharamsala.

Avatar Korra, a headstrong, rebellious, feisty young woman who continually challenges and breaks with tradition, is on her quest to become a fully realized Avatar. In this story, the Avatar struggles to find balance within herself.

Strange crimes occur in Thailand as the ranking for the world's best detective sees a shift. New detectives come into the picture to tackle three difficult cases.

Buddhist priest Tripitaka and his three disciples Monkey, Pigsy, and Sandy, travel from China to India to fetch the Buddhist scriptures. They have been sent by Buddha, and getting these scriptures will bring peace to the people of the world.

Mythological drama serial is based on the life of Lord Buddha that shows how a prince, Siddhartha became a Buddha.

A story that follows a man who discovers a new way of living after he falls in love with a Dai girl and its people. From the moment he fell in love with Yu Bo, Xu Haoran grew to appreciate the Dai people's culture, their positivity and their philosophy towards nature and towards life. He starts to pour his passion and focus towards protecting the rainforest and the animals. Not one to be confined, Xu Haoran never expected to fall for a Dai girl and he never imagined that falling in love would be so hard. Yu Bo has just drank the cross-cupped wine with Yan Long, a man from her tribe who has been pursuing her. His girlfriend Han Wenwen is unwilling to accept that she has lost in love. Moreover, Yu Bo's aunt turns out to be the woman that his father abandoned a long time ago. Even as he finds solutions for his problems, it is said that to love is easy but to stay together is difficult. Will he overcome the challenges to be with the woman that he loves?

Between August and October, 1952, a series of unusual crimes takes place in Musashino and Mitaka: the attempted murder of 14-year-old Kanako Yuzuki, Kanako's abduction from the strange research "hospital" where she was recovering, then abductions of other girls, followed by their severed limbs in custom-fitted boxes being placed in surrounding towns. News editor Morihiko Toriguchi and crime fiction writer Tatsumi Sekiguchi investigate with the help of onmyōji Akihiko Chūzenji.

The Power of Myth is a television series originally broadcast on PBS in 1988 as Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth. The documentary comprises six one-hour conversations between mythologist Joseph Campbell and journalist Bill Moyers.

Angkab, a daughter of a jewelry tycoon, was in love with Jed but he in turn decided to marry a distant cousin named Ganda. She went to destroy the marriage ceremony by releasing snakes into the ceremony. A relative was bitten by the snake instead. On the way home, Angkab got into an accident and her spirit went to where Nakhee lives. Nakhee decided to possess the body of Angkab because she had the same history as hers, betrayed by love. Nakhee's mission is to wreak havoc in the human world in the name of vengeance. When vengeance rules the heart, Nakhee looks for a weapon to use in destroying her enemy. She found akeenaka but her enemy has a stronger weapon and that is love, a love that she's been seeking and waiting eternity for.

An epic adventure that aims to unravel the mystery at the heart of our existence: the questions of our identity and our destiny.  The series features some of the world’s most baffling real life stories and exciting findings in the fields of consciousness studies, near-death experiences and past-life memories. Adventurous researchers following the evidence where it leads them have discovered that the lines of evidence converge to a conclusion that is refreshingly new – yet perennially known.