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Kauai Stupas – Filled With Love
This is a slide show synced to music showing the filling of granite and marble stupas with 6,000 tsa tsa made by the Kauai Buddhist community from 2006 – 2008. The cover photo to the left is of Lama Rinchen and Andrew Fitts interring them in a granite stupa. The slide show starts out with a ceremonial empowerment for the central marble stupa called, “Sealing the Negativity.” Audio: Khayaal Featuring Vishal Vaid by Midival Punditz |
| Kauai Peace Park – Building the Dream
Scenes are from the very beginning of the project, with a stupa site blessing and grounds preparation in 2006. Construction of prayer wall and sub-shrines follows, then the craning of the central marble stupa in place. Remaining shots are from the final consecration Feb. 26, 2009. Slides synced to electronica music. Audio: Lazy by Mirror System |
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Making Tsa Tsa
This series shows how to make plaster tsa tsa in the form of little stupas by using rubber molds. These are put into the hollow core of stupas. It is a Tibetan Buddhist traditional arts and craft. Slides synced to electronica music. Audio: Sleepless by Marconi Union |
| Kauai Lotus Stupa Consecration – Feb. 26, 2009
Lamas from the four main Hawaiian islands came together for the final ceremony – Lama Karma Rinchen and Lama Tempa from Oahu, Lama Gyaltsen from Maui, Lama Debela from the Big Island, and western Lama Tashi from Kauai. Andrew Fitts – sponsor. Slides synced to electronica music. Audio: 1975 Chevy Nova by Summer McKane |
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Bago, Burma
Scenes from an old capitol city of Burma, an hour’s drive north of Yangon. The first five photos are of an immense and beautiful reclining Buddha in Chautakagyi temple on the northern edge of Yangon. Slides sycned to music. Audio: Without Within by Bob Holroyd |
| Kalu Rinpoche – Sonada, India
Photos from Kalu Rinpoche’s 18th birthday celebration in Sonada, India September 2008. The slide show starts out at Bokar Rinpoche’s monastery in Mirik, where Kalu Rinpoche had just emerged after his 3 year retreat, then moves to Sonada as he is welcomed back to his home monastery. There are also a number of photos of Lama Karma Rinchen, a devotee of Kalu Rinpoche, who was instrumental in the Kauai stupa project. |
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Schwedagon Night Scenes
Schwedagon Paya in Yangon, Burma. Four video clips of typical evening scenes around the stupa. One is a group of lay women chanting powerfully. |
| Buddhas of Burma
48 beautiful Buddha faces from Burma synced with electronica music. (The last slide is a Buddha from Thailand, a nice counterpoint to the previous 47). Audio: Tealosophy by Wishing Tree |
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Stupafied in South East Asia
Dramatic stupas and stupa temples in S.E. Asia. First ten slides are from Ayuthaya, Thailand. Last ten slides are from Bangkok. Preceding this last group are five slides from Luang Prabang, Laos. Most of the stupas in this compilation are from various places in Burma. Slides synced to electronica music: Audio: Enchantment by Amethystium |
| Angkor Passageways
This is a video short, comprised of three clips. Take a walk through Preah Kahn temple, starting from the inner core and heading south through a main passageway, then outside to the perimeter gate. Audio: Adrift in Kerala by Bob Holroyd |
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Golden Rock – Kyaiktiyo Burma.
Burma’s second most revered pilgrimage spot after the Schwedagon Paya in Yangon. This is a video of devotees applying gold leaf to the Rock just before day break, floodlights bathing the whole scene. The video ends with a 360 pan of the surrounding temple activities. |
| Angkor Wat
Angkor Wat temple scenes, and exquisite wall carvings. Slides synced to electronica music. Audio: Rebirth Featuring Anoushka Shankar by Midival Punditz |
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Luang Prabang Architecture
Day and night scenes of Gallic inspired buildings in this UNESCO recognized colonial town, fast gentrifying into a coveted location. Slides synced to electronica music. Audio: Dreams of Olduvai by Bob Holroyd |
| Angkor Temples
Photos from Preah Kahn, Ta Prohm, and Banteay Kdei. These have to be the most mystery laden temples on the planet. Slide show synced to electronica music. Audio: Whispers of our Ancestors by Shaman’s Eye |
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Bagan Temples
Photos of some of the 2,200 stupas and stupa temples still left standing, out of approximately 5,000 that were built over a 250 years span from 1044 to the late 1200′s when the Mongols invaded Burma. Bagan is a dreamy place and a stupa lover’s paradise. Slides synced to electronica music. Audio: Chase by aikon |
| Schwedagon Paya
Burma’s most revered stupa and temple complex in Yangon. Photos of typical scenes at shrines where Buddhas smile down reverently, with an inserted video clip of people meditating at night. The series ends as night falls on the stupa and the floodlights set off a powerful glow. Slides synced to electronica music. Audio: Transilio by Mirror System |
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