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Though she is rarely mentioned in the Gospels, she is perhaps the most important and the most revered woman in history.Shortly after 13-year old Mary of Nazareth became engaged to Joseph, the fate of the world changed. Inexplicably pregnant, the frightened teenager faced the possibility of being stoned to death and she endured ridicule that continued even after the birth of her son. But Mary vigilantly stood by Jesus throughout years of scorn and prejudice, even as he was dying on the cross at Calvary. Some believe she founded the Jerusalem church after his death. In this penetrating program, biblical experts and leading historians probe for clues to the story of the woman who is revered by millions worldwide. BIOGRAPHY proudly presents the amazing story of the woman hailed as The Blessed Virgin and Mother of God Mary of Nazareth.
July 07, 2005
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He was an uneducated peasant who gained a reputation as a faith healer. His strange behavior and incredible influence over the imperial family made him notorious his death made him a legend. Gregory Rasputin dominated the final years of imperial Russia.
September 09, 2005
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starring: Derek Jacobi, David Macaulay
Studio: Pbs Release Date: 05/06/2009 Run time: 60 minutes
April 04, 2006
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Studio: A&e Home Video Release Date: 10/30/2001 Run time: 400 minutes Rating: Nr
October 10, 2001
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starring: Harry Smith, Peter Billingsley, Forrest Church, Robert Clarke, Melinda Dillon
CHRISTMAS UNWRAPPED: THE HISTORY OF CHRI
April 04, 2005
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starring: Taylor Branch, David Halberstam, Martin Luther King, Andrew Young
directed by: Noland Walker, Orlando Bagwell
CITIZEN KING, a two-hour documentary from acclaimed filmmakers Orlando Bagwell and Noland Walker, explores the last five years in the life of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Personal recollections and eyewitness accounts of friends, movement associates, journalists, law enforcement officers, and historians illuminate this little-known chapter in the story of America's most influential moral leader in the 20th century.
February 02, 2005
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starring: Hameroff; Newberg; Woolf; Bierman; Ramachandran; Chalmers
directed by: Gregory Alsbury
May 05, 2005
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starring: Lynn Picknett, Margaret Starbird, Dr. James Robinson, Clive Prince, Dr. Karen Ralls
directed by: Richard Metzger
The Da Vinci Code Decoded Box Set: Totally Decoded is a must-have for any fan of The Da Vinci Code.
April 04, 2006
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In his first sermon at Deer Park, the historical Buddha spoke of the Four Noble Truths of sentient existence:
1. The existence of suffering, or dukkha
2. The cause of suffering (karma)
3. The cessation of suffering
4. The Path that leads to the cessation of suffering
This set of four videos collects a series of lectures on the Four Noble Truths given by His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama in 1997 in England. The lectures were a landmark event, bringing together for the first time in the West a nonsectarian Buddhist and lay audience for over six hours of emotional and intellectually challenging engagement with these central teachings of the Buddhist canon. The impressive intellect and scholarship of His Holiness is everywhere evident in these tapes as he traverses the expansive body of Buddhist scriptures and commentaries. One also catches glimpses of his mischievous sense of humor and, of course, his inspiring compassion.
The first tape is a framework for the discussion of the Four Truths. His Holiness discusses the importance of developing a critical insight toward one's perceptions of reality, and he emphasizes the value of the Three Jewels (Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha) in finding the way to this insight. Though he begins in English, as he gets into the finer points of Tibetan philosophy he turns to his native language and speaks through a translator. The tape concludes in a lighthearted mode with a question-and-answer period, again in English, in which he giggles over the Western interest in finding the "quickest, cheapest, and most efficient" way to enlightenment.
The second tape addresses the First of the Truths, of dukkha, or suffering. Here His Holiness searches for the roots of this suffering in an understanding of cosmology, both among Buddhist writings and among the work of contemporary physicists, but ultimately he points to our human ignorance of the fleeting nature of pleasurable experience as the root cause.
Tape 3 opens with an analysis of the causes of suffering (the law of karma). He begins to set out the Buddhist path, which, he says, must always be grounded in the aspiration for "freedom from samsara"--life amid the world of afflictive emotions. In the most impassioned moment of the hours of lectures, His Holiness uses his surprisingly deft English to explain how our emotions are the true "enemy" and destroyer of all of our happiness and health. If you believe, he argues, that one can do something about one's feelings of greed, anger, etc., then one should dedicate oneself to study and mental training to root out the afflictive emotions and foster the positive emotions. The end of tape 3 briefly addresses the Third Truth, of the cessation of suffering.
Finally, tape 4, which is peppered with references to classical Buddhist texts, takes up the Path (The Eight-Fold Path, as it is usually called) to "direct, intuitive realization of emptiness." At the root of this path, His Holiness says that one most foster bodhichitta, the altruistic desire to attain enlightenment for oneself so that one may help others. He recommends that one devote oneself, above all else, to seeing oneself as interconnected with all other beings. To stay on the Path, one must be devoted to single-point meditation and analytical meditation. And one must be determined. Enlightenment may, he admits, take eons.
One curiosity of the videos is the cameraperson's roving eye. Frequently, the picture will settle on a rapt or amused audience member. On a couple of occasions, the faces in the audience are famous: John Cleese and various British TV personalities. Each of the four videos also includes a brief introduction by Tibetan Buddhism scholar Robert Thurman, who contextualizes the lectures within the many Buddhist traditions. --Patrick O'Kelley
April 04, 2002
