Dalai Lama Renaissance is a feature length documentary film, produced and directed by Khashyar Darvich, narrated by actor Harrison Ford. The film documents the Dalai Lama's meeting with Western "renaissance" thinkers at his home in Dharamsala, India, about changing the world and resolving many of the world's problems. These Western thinkers who meet the Dalai Lama include: quantum physicists Fred Alan Wolf and Amit Goswami (from the documentaries What the Bleep Do We Know and The Secret), social scientist Jean Houston, and founder of Agape International Spiritual Center church in Los Angeles, Dr. Michael Beckwith. The film includes original music by Tibetan musicians, as well as master sitarist Roop Verma, who studied under Ravi Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan. (more)
Type: movie
Genres: entertainment, movies
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Amit Goswami:
Amit Goswami is a theoretical nuclear physicist and member of The University of Oregon Institute for Theoretical Physics since 1968, teaching physics for 32 years. After a period of distress and frustration in his private and professional life starti
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Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama:
Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso (born Lhamo Döndrub ( ) 6 July 1935 in Qinghai ), is the 14th and current Dalai Lama. The Dalai Lama is a revered spiritual leader among Tibetans and exerts a powerful influence over the Gelug School
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Jean Houston:
Jean Houston, Ph.D. (born 10 May 1937) has been a leading figure in the cross-cultural study of New Thought spirituality and ritual processes. A prolific author of books, her PBS Special A Passion for the Possible has been widely viewed. Houston was
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Michael Beckwith:
Michael Beckwith is a New Thought minister, and founder of the Agape International Spiritual Center in Culver City, California, a New Thought church with a congregation estimated in excess of 8,000 members. Beckwith was ordained in Religious Science
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Fred Alan Wolf:
Fred Alan Wolf (born December 3, 1934) is a theoretical physicist and writer on the subjects of quantum physics, consciousness, and their relationship. He is a science popularizer on the Discovery Channel, and has authored a number of books. His theo
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India:
India (Hindi: भारत ; see also other Indian languages), officially the Republic of India (Hindi: भारत गणराज्य ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh largest country by geographical area, the second most populous country, and the most popul
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Documentary film:
Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt, in one fashion or another, to "document" reality. Although "documentary film" originally referred to movies shot on film stock, it has subsequently expanded to in
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Tibet:
Tibet ( ) is a plateau region in Central Asia and the home to the indigenous Tibetan people. With an average elevation of 4,900 metres (16,000 ft), it is the highest region on Earth and is commonly referred to as the "Roof of the World." Geographical
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Los Angeles, California:
Los Angeles ( , in Spanish) is the largest city in the state of California and the second largest in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, it is rated an alpha world city, having an estimated population of 3.8
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Ravi Shankar:
Pandit Ravi Shankar ( রবি শংকর, Devanagari: रविशंकर, "Pandit" (Sanskrit, "learned") is honorific), born April 7, 1920, in Benares, United Provinces, British India is a Bengali Indian sitar player and composer. He is a disciple of Baba Allauddin Khan,
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