Film focuses on the ancient Mani-Rimdu festival of "awakening" and on Trulshig Rinpoche, the spiritual leader of the region whose name means "destroyer of illusion." Rinpoche goes from his home in Thubten Ch??ling to Chiwong Monastery to preside over the festival.

Boston Medical Examiner Maura Isles is summoned to the scene of a brutal killing and teams up with Detective Jane Rizzoli to investigate the victim's ties to Joyce O'Donnell, a cantankerous psychologist, and to a sinister cabal called the Mephisto Club.

Discusses the philosophies and faiths of Asia, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, and Shinto, examining the religious teachings, scriptures, lives of teachers, myths, and holy places of each tradition.

This workshop presents an overview of the stages of practice in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition of Tsongkhapa and the Dalai Lamas. Included is a discussion of training in the preliminaries of Sutrayana, the Six Perfections of the Bodhisattva attitude, and the rationale and methods of Tantric practice.

Goddess worship has been an important dimension of Hindu religious life for many centuries, and the Hindu goddess tradition is one of the richest in existence today. Although Hindus recognize and revere a variety of discrete goddesses, they also tend to speak of "The Goddess" as a singular and unifying deity. Three aspects of the Hindu Goddess tradition are explored: a cosmological creative force that creates, sustains, and permeates the universe;...