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Title The Buddha : the story of Siddhartha / a film by David Grubin ; a production of David Grubin Productions ; written, produced, and directed by David Grubin.

Publication Info. Arlington, Virginia : PBS, [2010]
©2010

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Location Call No. Status
 Enfield, Pearl Street Branch Library - Audio-Visual Materials  DVD 294.3 BUD    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  DVD 227 BUD    Check Shelf
 Marlborough, Richmond Memorial Library - Adult Department  DVD 294.3 BUDDHA    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult DVD, Nonfiction  DVD 294.363 BUD    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Audio-Visual Materials  DVD 294.363 B85    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  DVD 294.363 BUDDHA    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  DVD 294.363 BUD    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Audio-Visual Materials  DVD B BUDDHA    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Audio-Visual Materials  DVD 294.363 BUDDHA    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Adult  DVD 294.363 BUD    Check Shelf

Edition Widescreen edition.
Description 1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
System Details DVD; NTSC, region 1; widescreen presentation; stereo.
Cast Narrators, Richard Gere, Blair Brown ; participants, W.S. Merwin, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Mark Epstein, Robert Tenzin Thurman.
Credits Cinematographer, James Callanan ; editor, Deborah Peretz ; music, Michael Bacon.
Note "Produced in conjunction with the exhibition, Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art, organized by Asia Society Museum, New York."
Audience Not rated.
Summary Recounts the life of the Buddha and presents the tenets of Buddhism.
Contents Birth -- Siddhartha -- Leaving the palace -- Reincarnation -- Asceticism -- A childhood memory -- Enlightenment -- The first teaching -- The four noble truths -- The sangha -- Meditation -- Teachings -- Miracles -- Death of the Buddha.
Note Special features: Interview with David Grubin ; Interview with His Holiness the Dalai Lama ; Making animation for The Buddha ; Buddhist pilgrimage sites.
Language English dialogue with optional subtitles in English or Chinese Mandarin (traditional and simplified); described video for the visually impaired; closed-captioned.
Note GMD: videorecording.
Subject Gautama Buddha.
Buddhists -- India.
Buddhism.
Documentary.
Genre/Form Biographical television programs.
Religious television programs.
Historical television programs.
Documentary television programs.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.
Added Author Grubin, David.
Bowers, Anna.
Gere, Richard, 1949-
Brown, Blair.
Merwin, W. S. (William Stanley), 1927-2019
Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935-
Epstein, Mark, 1953-
Thurman, Robert A. F.
Asia Society. Museum.
David Grubin Productions.
Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
PBS Distribution (Firm)
Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art (Exhibition)
ISBN 9781608831951
1608831957
Standard No. 841887011983
Music No. BUDD601 PBS
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