Pourquoi Bodhi-Dharma est-il parti vers l'orient?

Original title: Dharmaga tongjoguro kan kkadalgun

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Pourquoi Bodhi-Dharma est-il parti vers l'orient? (1989)

About three monks in a remote monastery; an aging master, a small orphan and a young man who left his city life to seek Enlightenment.About three monks in a remote monastery; an aging master, a small orphan and a young man who left his city life to seek Enlightenment.About three monks in a remote monastery; an aging master, a small orphan and a young man who left his city life to seek Enlightenment.

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Film took seven years to complete, using a single camera, and was edited entirely by hand.

Quotes
Haejin: Why have we all left the world?
Kibong: It's because in the world, there is no peace or freedom of the heart.
Haejin: Why?
Hyegok: Because people haven't enough heart to put in all the things of the world. In fact, they have enough heart, but it's full of the idea of Self.

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10/10

A film requiring multiple viewings

I first saw this film several years ago, and I was told that it was so hard to understand. Then I studied more about Zen Buddhism, and slowly but surely, I did begin to understand.

The movie is considered the best film about Buddhism, and rightly so. The director, a professor at the Buddhist Dongguk University in Seoul, took seven years to make it and used non-actors to play the parts.

He recently remastered the image and dialogue in a new DVD release, but unfortunately, no extras or featurettes. This film is one of the greatest made, and I feel sorry that it hasn't gotten the proper DVD treatment it deserves.

Nonethless, this movie is a meditation about Buddhism, life and death, and our raison d'etre. Definitely not to be missed.