Movies: Monk

In the last fifty years the culture of Zen has spread far beyond Japan. Zen centers and zen retreats have sprung up throughout America and Europe. When Dogen, the founder of Soto Zen, brought Zen to Japan from China 800 years ago, it quickly took ro...

The daily life of the Dalai Lama is brought home with remarkable intimacy in SUNRISE/SUNSET. Granted total access to His Holiness for 24 hours, this is a day in the life of the Dalai Lama from when he wakes up at 3 a.m. until his bedtime at dusk....

Chan, a senior monk, tells a story about his past how a group of bandits robbed his house and raped his wife so he decided to become an outlaw himself. His notoriety made him a wanted man and he decided to hide in the forest where he met a wandering ...

Author Robert Louis Stevenson takes a trip to Napa Valley, California, in 1880 and gets involved in the exploits of a stagecoach driver who captures a hooded highwayman called The Monk. Supposedly inspired by a true incident, this offbeat Western bas...

The story of a single swallow who, taking a rest from southward flight at a mission in California, ultimately brings about the famed migration of swallows to the mission at San Juan Capistrano....

Nepal 1950. A mysterious, unexplored country. The Swiss geologist Toni Hagen, was the first European to pass through the "forbidden" kingdom. He doesn't discover any mineral resources there. Yet he does uncover the mysteries of life and penetrates to...

Schaedler's film tells the fascinating story of Tibetan monk Gendun Choephel whose robes ultimately proved to be too constricting for his imagination and intellect. Born in 1903, Choephel left an indelible mark on Tibetan culture and became an icon f...

In his lifetime, Thomas Merton was hailed as a prophet and censured for his outspoken social criticism. For nearly 27 years he was a monk of the austere Trappist order, where he became an eloquent spiritual writer and mystic as well as an anti-war ad...

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There is a religious congregation founded by Saint Igneous, a saint and martyr who is believed to have been burned alive for spreading the faith. Several centuries later, a young monk prepares to be part of the order and thus, redeem his sins of the ...

In his own way, Anatoli Ljutuk is a legend of Tallinn's Old Town - a man from Western Ukraine who has built a unique world on Laboratory Street, the main core of which is the Ukrainian Cultural Center and Church. There, he engages in calligraphy, mak...

Two gay men, one of whom is a monk, meet and develop a romantic relationship. The relationship however cannot last and the men break up. One of the men feels that he is gay by nature, the other because of an experience he had at a young age....

When a little spider is about to be injured by a child in the lower world she is rescued by the young monk. She follows him home and meditates in the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter. Under the influence of Buddhism, she turned into ...

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A haiku film poem. the early morning waiting for the monks. the voices. the fire. the wat drum....

Story of the merits of the revered abbot Luang Pho Khoon....

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A cinematic story of drama after the drama and war that rages on in people's hearts even after the war. The hero, an Orthodox Christian monk, finds himself on a road to spiritual healing through circumstances he could never have dreamed of. The story...

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In contact with the Boa Gym, an exalted young monk rediscovers the power of his carnal envelope and undertakes a radical transformation to save his aging congregation....