Best Dalai Lama DVDs, CD and Blueray Disks

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Top CDs, DVDs, Videos and Blueray disks about and with the Dalai Lama

The Dalai Lama is one of the most famous religious leaders of our time. His Buddhist teachings have charmed the world. His peaceful attitude in the face of colonial (Chinese) aggression has brought him honour and esteem wherever he goes. His story is admired all over.

These disks capture that story, or share his Buddhist wisdom.

Kundun: about the life of the 14th Dalai Lama

Inspiring and informative history of the life of the Dalai Lama: how he was found to be the incarnation of the 13th Dalai Lama, his relationship with his family after that, his flee from Tibet and all that came after that.

Kundun

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The Dalai Lama on Blu Ray

The only blueray movie related to the Dalai Lama I could find was this classic: Seven Years in Tibet. Though it is only sideways related to His Holiness, he does figure in it. This movie gives a reasonably historically correct idea of Tibet before and shortly after the Chinese occupation.

It is also simply a very inspirational and moving story.

Seven Years in Tibet [Blu-ray]

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10 Questions for the Dalai Lama

Filmmaker and explorer Rick Ray ask the Dalai Lama ten essential questions about life, modernity and money. Enriched by his own travels in Asia and India in particular, the conversation is moving and insightful.

Included is footage about the history of Tibet and Dharamsala.

10 Questions for the Dalai Lama

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A Path to Happiness: His Holiness the Dalai Lama

The best known teachings of the current Dalai Lama concern a topic dear to all our hearts: happiness and how to find it. Contra-intuitively the solution to finding happiness for ourselves is concerning ourselves less with ME and more with the other people in our lives. Giving instead of taking.

In this video the Dalai Lama explains those teachings in detail.

A Path to Happiness: His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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Tibetan Buddhist Meditation and Ritual explained

This video has live footage of Tibetan Buddhist rituals, explanations of the Bhardo's (phases the soul goes through between death and life) and more. A very informative DVD with lots in depth coverage of Buddhism in Tibet. And yes, the Dalai Lama is in there, along with other Tibetan Buddhist teachers.

On Life and Enlightenment

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Dalai Lama lectures about Peace

As a political leader in exile, the topic the Dalai Lama is most famous for is PEACE. On this DVD several of his lectures on this topic have been collected together. Prepare to be inspired. As is his usual style, His Holiness isn't just preaching, he is funny and practical too.

Art of Peace: His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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Destructive Emotions: How Can We Overcome Them?

A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama

This abridged audiobook has all the depth of the original. Confront yourself in your car, driving to or from work for instance. This will help you become more productive and more peaceful, as you learn to overcome destructive emotions like anger and jealousy.

Destructive Emotions: How Can We Overcome Them?: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama

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How to See Yourself As You Really Are

Unabridged audio CD that will help you with that ultimate spiritual quest: self knowledge. Read by Jeffrey Hopkins, who translated the book into English as well, this book will inspire and uplift through Step-by-step exercises. As usual for the Dalai Lama this book is enlivened with anecdotes from the life of His Holiness himself.

The meditation exercises are uncommonly practical and their relationship to day to day life well explained.

How to See Yourself As You Really Are

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His Holiness the Dalai Lama Speaks: Peace and Prosperity

DVD with a lecture given by the Dalai Lama in 2007 in New York. Introduction by Richard Gere. This film by National Geographic includes introductions to Buddhism and the concluding Q and A with the audience.

The Dalai Lama - The Four Noble Truths

Four tapes introducing the essence of Buddhism: the four noble truths. Starting with the basis of all human problems dukkha (stress, sorrow, suffering) and ending with the solution to all that - Enlightenment or Nirvana. Since this path is by no means easy, this exposition by the H.H. the Dalai Lama is by no means unwelcome.

Each tape is introduced by Tibetan Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman who places the teachings in the context of Buddhism worldwide.

The Dalai Lama - The Four Noble Truths

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Dalai Lama Stages of Meditation

This is one of the Dalai Lama's own favorite topics as a Buddhist scholar and student. For him the levels of meditation are the way to understand a lot of other arcane Tibetan Buddhist teachings as well.

All Buddhism shares the basic insight that meditation comes in all kinds of shapes and sizes: there are levels to meditation. Buddhism has this idea in common with Hinduism and most yoga traditions. Yet we, in the West, would like to forget about all such detail and 'just sit'.
This collection of DVDs is the Dalai Lama's road map to meditation: he gives introductions to each level of meditation and how they are interconnected.

Dalai Lama Stages of Meditation

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    CrypticFragments Mar 18, 2010 @ 7:26 am | delete
    good compilation...I found one I was not aware of previously and will have to be looking for it
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    julcal Mar 9, 2009 @ 4:12 pm | delete
    Thanks for these great finds! I bought three of them and will probably be back for more!

    As always you're a great resource, i'm almost done with "The Spiritual Brain" which has become and ongoing topic of conversation between me and my husband. he is writing a book concerning the similar ideas from a psychological point of view. It's called "love, mysticism and psychotherapy" In short, it's his brand of psychotherapy versus materialists. Sorry for digressing.

    5* !!!!!

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